CILogon Information

The ABCS Collaborative Data Sharing uses CILogon which provides a standards-compliant OpenID Connect (OAuth 2.0) interface to federated authentication for cyberinfrastructure (CI). The following user attributes are provided by CILogon and used by the application.

Your CILogon user identifier is currently not used by the application.

Your name is currently not used by the application.

Your email address from the identity provider (IdP) is used to determine if an account record exists authorizing access to the application.

Last Reviewed: 01 July, 2020

Explore Data

The Explore panel provides users with multiple options to browse through the available project-specific files and/or data sets in a selected project, as well as any publicly released project data sets. The documents and data are pulled dynamically through a database query allowing for custom interfaces for each user.

Tree View tab provides a comprehensive and dynamic branching schematic depicting project files organized by file metadata (e.g., Species, Strain, Group, Experiment, Data Type and Tissue).

Data Overview tab provides a tabular output of all available data by file counts and total size.

Data Files tab provides users with the option of a detailed file level browsing feature where metadata are displayed based on experimental categories. Users have the option to preview files which allows for visualization of the first 20 rows and all columns or the first page of a file, depending on the file type. Users can also download individual files by clicking on any of the file links.

The Manage Files tab is only available to registered users who uploaded files to the project or registered users who have been designated as managers of the files. It allows the user to manage their data through file archive and restoration features.

The PI Team Files tab is available only to the lead project principal investigator(s) (PI) and allows the PI to manage all files associated with their team/project(s).

Last Reviewed: 18 June, 2020

Upload Data

Only authenticated users can upload files to their authorized projects. The upload form gathers minimal information on the file metadata, which allows the CDSP to categorize, organize and provide fine-grained access control on each of the uploaded files.

Note: File upload speed is directly related to the bandwidth on the user’s network.

Last Reviewed: 18 June, 2020

Download Data

In addition to public data sets, authenticated CDSP users have access to private project data sets based on their role within a project. As with all other CDSP features, the user interface for download was designed in a data agnostic and modular fashion where the data matrix is built dynamically for each project and user. Overall, the dropdown project select boxes, table rows, column headers, and file counts in each of the cells are generated dynamically based on the access levels of the user and the current information for the project. Unlike the Data Files tab in the Explore panel, users are able to download sets of files, rather than single files; the files are zipped for ease of accessibility. Zipping the file(s) may take time when requesting a substantial number of files or a large amount of data, as such users are sent a link via email to access the zipped file when completed.

Note: File upload speed is directly related to the bandwidth on the user’s network.

Last Reviewed: 18 June, 2020

User Guide

The User Guide provides an overview of the CDSP application and a short description on each feature, along with current access controls. The guide can be accessed using the navigation menu, or by clicking on the information icon ‘?’ in the upper right corner of any page to reference the specific section of the guide associated with the page.

Note: When the information icon is selected, the User Guide will be opened in a separate tab.

Last Reviewed: 18 June, 2020