About Data Sources

The Data Sources tab gives access to your Data Sources and to those shared with you. Data sources can be selected in a distribution. For more information, see Managing the distributions of a Dataset.

This page discusses:

General properties

  • Title
  • Description
  • Keyword
  • Creator: The agent responsible for producing the Data Source
  • Issued: Date of format issuance (for example, publication) of the Data Source
  • Identifier: A unique identifier of the Data Source
  • Landing page: A web page that can be navigated to in a Web browser to gain access to the Data Source and/or additional information
  • Modified: Most recent date on which the Data Source was changed, updated, or modified
  • Publisher: the agent responsible for making the Data Source available.

Data Sources specific properties

Data Sources Specific Properties
3DDrive (referencing a 3DDrive folder accessible from a 3DEXPERIENCE platform.)
Note:
  • If you select 3DDrive as a data source when you add a distribution, you can upload or download a file.
  • The data source will refer to the connected user drive (3DDrive personal storage).
  • If you delete datasets pointing files in 3DDrive, the files are not deleted in 3DDrive.
  • Access rights performed in Datasets Governance do not apply to 3DDrive which has its own access right management.
  • Path: the path of the 3DDrive folder
  • Described by: dataset descriptor
FTP
  • FTP endpoint properties
    • User Name: the name of the user that has permission to access the FTP server
    • FTP URL: the URl of the FTP server
  • FTP repository properties
    • Path: path of the folder in the FTP server
    • Described by: dataset descriptor
Web Access
  • Web access endpoint properties
  • Download URL
  • Upload URL