# Keeper: certifying research data combining Seafile and blockchain technology

- Institution: CERN
- Department: HEP Computing
- Speaker: René Ranger
- Year: 2023
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3002197)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The Max Planck Society runs a customized installation of Seafile called KEEPER (https://keeper.mpdl.mpg.de/) for its scientists which offers the possibility to certify research data with or without metadata by leveraging on blockchain technology. Snapshot data and a certificate representing the data on the blockchain are stored on application side and presented to the user. This implementation is tailored to our scientists and stores transaction data via a publicly available API on bloxberg, the blockchain run by a association of worldwide research institutions (https://bloxberg.org/). We would like to showcase the implementation and its potential benefits for the CS3 community.

## Lectures

1. [Keeper: certifying research data combining Seafile and blockchain technology](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3002197/66b6bcabf044), 18 min (CERN's player)