Creating a new research group
Sometimes you want to work with multiple research groups for one project. For example, you might want to have one research group with non-sensitive data that is shared with collaborators, as well as a second one with sensitive data that is only accessible to the principal investigator.
There are two prerequisites for creating research groups:
- You need to have been granted system-wide rights to create groups.
- You need to have a group manager role in an existing group in the same research environment.
If you are not authorized yet to create a group yourself, request for Yoda data manager rights.
If you are authorized to create a new group, you can do so in the following way:
1. Ask the data owners what they want the group name to be and ask or infer in which category and subcategory the research group should be placed. For the group name, the ‘research-’ prefix is selected by default and should not be changed. Also, only lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens can be used.
2. Go to the ‘Group Manager’ in the Yoda web portal.
3. On the top right, click “+ Add group”.
4. Fill out the group name, as well as the Category and Subcategory under which the new research group should be created, the metadata schema to be used, the data classification (if known), the expiration date of the group (if relevant) and a description of the research group (if known).
5. When this is filled out, press the button 'Add group' at the bottom of the screen.
Be aware: once you have created the group, you cannot rename it!