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Workspaces on MorphoBank exist as separate "projects," completely independent from all others projects and accessible only to the creator of the workspace and those to whom the creator has explicitly granted access. As we shall see, a workspace contains all of your project data - taxa, characters and states, specimens, bibliographic references, media (typically images, but also video and sounds), folios, documents and matrices. These data are completely private to the workspace and cannot be modified or, prior to publication, accessed by those outside of the project.
You are free to develop your dataset in any way you choose. While use of character ontologies, taxonomic authories and specimen databases is in general good practice and highly encouraged, MorphoBank does not mandate their use. How you conduct your research in your workspace is entirely up to you. You can see published projects on our Browse Projects page.
Creating a project
You can create as many projects as you need; in general you should create a project for each discrete research problem or paper you are working on. Remember that workspaces are completely independent from one another and do not interact in any way. There is no sharing of data between project workspaces, and each workspace is only accessible to those to whom you explicitly grant access. If you have multiple workspaces with identical member lists and/or need of shared data, then you should consider consolidating them into a single project workspace.
We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and reuse of published data on MorphoBank is an important part of how science advances. To this end MorphoBank encourages investigators to download and reuse/modify/expand or duplicate and reuse/modify/expand the results of prior investigators (which, of course, should be cited as is standard scientific practice).
If you find that you need to create many small matrices that could be considered subsets of a large matrix, we recommend that you create a single large matrix and use the partition feature to create subsets of characters or taxa from that matrix.
Figure 2.1. Selecting the new project option from the project list
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