Added export rule

README.md

@@ -9,7 +9,21 @@ This document will contain a list of rules that could be useful to develop for U
 -   home folder inherit recursively and own rights to the owner of the home folder
 -   PID's
 
-Archiving Rules
+**Archiving Rules**
 
 -   Archiving based on metadata value
 -   Archiving based on age/last accessed (eg. only on files > 1GB) ?
+
+
+**Exporting data rules**
+
+Bulk download/export for studies or part of a study for users.
+
+ - A tar file will be created with the requested data. This will be done interactively on data.m-unlock.nl platform. (to be implemented)
+ - Make this tar file available for download only for a max amount of time (to be decided). After which it will be deleted from iRODS.
+
+Possible solutions:
+ - Explore ibun.
+ - Create either a metadata field of the lifetime in hours, and calculate its doom date in the rule.
+ - Create a metadata field with it's doom date upon creation of the tar.
+