Projects/Teams are used for collaboratively generating or managing collections of media. They can also facilitate in discovering collections of media associated with a particular topic, study, or institution. By definition, there are often many stakeholders involved in their creation and management. Main examples include:
- Researchers may use a Project to upload and curate a large collection of scans with help from other researchers or staff before they are ready to make the scans publicly visible or accessible.
- Researchers may use a Project to provide a user with a specific role to specific collection of media (i.e., "Editor", "Downloader", or "Viewer")
- Researchers may use a Project to show the outcome of the collaborative imaging effort. For instance, see the "oVert Thematic Collection Network" Project.
- Technicians may use a Project to provide exclusive access to scans they are responsible for generating/processing/uploading (where the level of access depends on the "role" assigned to the users added to the Project)
- Authors may include the link to a Project in their publications to indicate a collection of scans used for a study (but see Citation Practice and Protocol)
- Individuals may search by project/team for collections of relevance to their use case.
- Museum curator/staff may use a Team to collaboratively track, edit and manage access to scans of specimens from their collections
- Managers/Directors of imaging facilities may use a Team to collaboratively track, edit, and manage access to scans generated at their facility
- Journal organizations may use a Team to track, edit, and manage access to media supporting articles published by their authors.
- PIs may use a Team to group together media from various Projects contributed by their labs.
The main subsections of this document will describe two different considerations that help ensure the expectations of all stakeholders are met.