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What are Teams, Spaces and Organizations? |
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A Team represents a group of one or more people collaborating together on a particular activity.
The Team provides the ability to describe and promote the activity, and also give credit back to the team. As well as providing credit, a team also has useful abilities such as default Sharing permissions and licence, and the ability to easily set sharing permissions across all members.
The Team needs to have a Title, and optionally can also have a:
- Description,
- Public website, and
- Avatar graphic
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Each Team will have its own administrator - usually the user that initially requested the Team.
The administrator can:
- Add and remove members,
- Set member roles,
- Define additional administrators, and
- Define new Organizations, Profiles (to describe members that have not yet registered) and Organisms
Spaces are an umbrella that contains one or more Teams. They are a self-administered area, that describes a broad activity (usually related to a funded grant), such as a consortium, or a long-running activity that will need additional Teams.
The Space must have a title, and can optionally also have a:
- Description,
- Funding details,
- Website, and
- Avatar graphic
Once approved, The Space will have its own administrator who is free to immediately create additional Teams without requiring additional approval.
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Your Organization is your affiliation within the context of the Team. It can be an academic institution, company, department, club etc.
An Organization only requires a Title, but can also include optional location information about the city and country.
You will be asked to choose or define a new Organization when joining or creating a Team.
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