"Projects" are collaborative spaces used for ongoing work. Projects are the best solution when:
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You can give people outside the Institution access to review and contribute data by inviting them to your project - all they will need is a (standard, free) figshare account.
There are two types of projects, differentiated by how storage is allocated - "individual (storage)" and "group (storage)" projects.
If most of the people in your project are permanent Smithsonian staff, or the collaboration is is a "one off" you probably want to create an "Individual" project. If the project is large, long-term, and/or involves many collaborators from outside the Institution, but we are responsible for the long-term management of the data you should create a "Group" project. |
Individual Projects | Group Projects |
Everyone uses their own quota and account storage. | Storage is allocated from the project owner's group's (unit's) quota, i.e., whatever group/subgroup the project owner belongs to determines the total storage quota allocation. This group allocation must be shared among all group projects that fall under that unit/group*. |
People have full control of their items, even if they leave the project, i.e., they can remove their item from the project space. | All work remains within the project (institutional storage) space if people leave. Project owners can transfer control of any item on the project to themselves by removing the original uploader from the project member's list. |
Items are created using the metadata schema of the submitter. | Contributors must adopt the metadata schema of the project owner, including custom fields. |
Items also appear in the subgroup of the uploader. | Items appear only under the subgroup that the project owner is a member of, regardless of submitter's affiliation. |
Items published by users from outside the organization don’t have to go through review (if review is turned on for the group).* | Items published by users from outside the organization have to go through review (if review is turned on for the group).** |
*note: if a project is created, a certain amount of storage - usually 10GB - is set aside from the overall unit allocation even if the project has no or even one or two small files in it
**currently review is NOT turned on for any SI group
Projects can be a mix of both published (public) and unpublished (private) datasets. Anyone that is a member of a project - both viewers and collaborators - can view and download private datasets.
If a project is not published, it will only be visible to the project members on their "projects" tab. It will not have a landing page. |
this assumes that you are the owner of or a collaborator on the project
New dataset:
Select Add a new item, which takes you to the metadata form. Once you’ve saved the item, it will appear in the home page of the project. As a collaborator, you can comment on individual items within the project or on the project as a whole.
Existing dataset:
You can also move your existing data to a project by clicking the checkbox to the left of the item you want to move in My data, clicking on Actions, selecting Move to/from project, and selecting the project you want to move the data to/from.
To make the project public, you must first make at least one item public within the project.
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