Sharing (private) data with others

This section is about dataset sharing. Whether you are working with private or public datasets, DCOR offers you several ways of sharing datasets.

Permission system

Public and private datasets

When uploading a dataset, you have the choice of public and private datasets. Public datasets can be accessed by anyone. Private datasets can only be accessed by members of the DCOR circle they were uploaded to. You can also create DCOR collections, which may contain datasets that belong to different circles. Every member of that collection has access to the private datasets therein. You can always make private datasets public, but not the other way around.

Circles: Sharing with colleagues

DCOR circles are the “home” of a dataset. When you upload a dataset, you have to specify a circle. A circle comprises one or more users who can be attributed to the same company, organization, research group, or laboratory. Every user can create circles and add other users to them. Users can have different roles within a circle, depending on their level of authorization to create, edit, and publish. All members of a circle have access to the private datasets of that circle.

Collections: Sharing for collaborators

You can use DCOR collections to organize datasets across circles. This could be to catalog datasets for a particular project or team, or on a particular theme, or as a very simple way to help people find and search your own published datasets. You can also use Collections to share private datasets with other users. All members of a collection have access to the private datasets in that collection.

Datasets: Simple sharing

It is also possible to share individual private datasets with other users.

Publications

Please note that circles and collections are in principle not citable. You may add new datasets to circles and collections and you may remove datasets from collections. You should always cite the datasets. If you would like to cite a dataset on DCOR, please read Citing data on DCOR.

Sharing data via DCOR-Aid

After you have uploaded your datasets via the Uploads tab, you can add individual datasets to a collection in the My Data tab.

Note

The Sharing tab is not implemented yet. Please manage members of collections and circles via the DCOR web interface.