Welcome to the I-Lab Manual

This is a task oriented manual for the I-Lab. It is organized around specific goals you might want to achieve and functions you might want to use.

Access The I-Lab

• Create an account
• Access to your data in the Research Area and the Vault
• Access to the I-Lab Portal for administrating your data

Organizing Usergroups and Users

• Creating and removing a usergroup
• Adding and authorizing users

Manage files and folder

• Adding/deleting/moving files and folders
• ** Search files and folders
• ** Restoring older file versions
• (Un)locking folders
• Check log files

Creating a datapackage for long-term storage

• Submitting your data as a datapackage
• Handling classified data

Publishing a datapackage

• How to publish a datapackage
• Unpublishing a datapackage
• Choosing a license
• Choosing an Access type

Manage Metadata

• Adding/change/delete metadata
• Reusing metadata

Background information

• I-Lab’s guidelines
• ** General Terms of Use & Terms for posting data
• Overview of preferred file-formats
• ** Licensing your datapackage
• Citing your data
• Difference between the Research Area and the Vault
• Persistent Identifiers
• Checks before your data is archived as a datapackage and/or published
• Accessing the I-Lab storage: the difference between a network-share and a network-disc
• How to Access the I-lab via a third-party WebDav-client

• ** Revision management: retention strategy of older file versions