Sharing & Collaboration

Sharing starts with deliberate access settings and enough context for someone else to understand the data. openJII separates those concerns:

• Visibility & embargo controls whether an experiment is public now or private until a publish-on date.
• Project transfers requests migration of a PhotosynQ project into openJII. It is not a general ownership-transfer button for an existing openJII experiment.
• Open & FAIR data is a practical checklist for metadata, identifiers, standard exports, provenance, and licensing decisions.

Experiment collaboration uses two roles only: admin and member. Admins manage settings and collaborators; members contribute within the experiment. There is no Viewer role in the current contract or database enum.

Before publishing or exporting

1. Review the experiment description and structured metadata.
2. Confirm member roles and whether contributor anonymization is appropriate.
3. Check protocol and workbook versions.
4. Inspect data quality annotations and known exclusions.
5. Choose a license and citation practice for any external release.

Public visibility makes the experiment readable; it does not by itself provide complete metadata, a license, quality assurance, or a FAIR assessment.