Ingest has been designed to accept large complex deposits, however for collections exceeding:

• 100,000 files,
•  1Tb of data, 
• or for large multifaceted infrastructure projects,

Depositors should contact us in advance for costing advice and guidance. This is required because additional fees may be applicable to facilitate the project management and dissemination of more complex collections. 

Please provide the ADS Collections Team with the following information when contacting us about a large deposition.

• Project Name
• Brief description of project or dataset
• Contact details of primary depositor
• An estimate of the number of files per data format to be deposited and if possible an estimate of total file size
• Name of funding body (if applicable)
• Estimate of expected deposit date
• If you require a map or search query interface to help users navigate data
• Any other information you think would help us understand your dataset