About Communities

Communities are shared areas on KTH Data Repository where projects, institutions, domains, and conferences can curate and manage their research outputs.

About Communities

Your project, institution, department, domain, or conference can collaborate on KTH Data Repository using the communities feature, which serves as a shared area curated and managed by your team.

Each person always logs in to KTH Data Repository using their personal account. Only community creators can create a new community, see apply to a community. Once the community is created, you can invite an unlimited number of people to your community. Each person is given a role that grants them different levels of access to the community and its records. A member of the community can hold one of the following roles:

Roles	Reader	Curator	Manager	Owner
Can view files in restricted records	✅	✅	✅	✅
Can accept/decline submissions	❌	✅	✅	✅
Can edit records metadata	❌	✅	✅	✅
Can invite members	❌	❌	✅	✅
Can manage members	❌	❌	✅	✅
Can modify community settings	❌	❌	❌	✅
Can delete community	❌	❌	❌	✅

Any user on KTH Data Repository can submit records for inclusion in a community. The community curators are responsible for curating the records and ultimately accepting or declining the record into the community.