The PolyU Research Data Repository

Roles & Rights

Registered users have different roles and rights in the repository. 

All Academic and Research staff, as well as Administrative staff of equivalent status (ARA) are granted the admin role automatically and can:

• Create a personal folder through completing the form
• Manage the personal folder
• Manage all sub-folders and datasets within the personal folder
• Assign the curator or the contributor role to another registered repository user, e.g. general staff and research students, to manage folders and datasets on their behalf

To assign a role:

• In managing the folder: On the folder page, select Edit > Permissions. Find detailed steps here.
• In managing the dataset: On the dataset page, select Edit Dataset > Permissions. Find detailed steps here.

Users can manage personal folders  , sub-folders  and datasets  to different extent according to their roles. The table below compares the rights of different roles on the Repository. 

Rights within the Folder (Folder page options)

	Admin (ARA)	Curator
Personal folder
Edit folder	✓
Manage folder permission	✓
Publish / Delete folder	✓
Create sub-folder	✓	✓
Add dataset	✓	✓
Sub-folder  (created by the curator)
Edit folder	✓	✓
Manage folder permission	✓	✓
Publish / Delete folder	✓	✓
Add dataset	✓	✓

Rights on Dataset  (Dataset page options)