The data of certain parts of the database can be blocked for remote access. If you want to prevent access for the whole dataset, enter your reason in the field Withholding reason in the header (see below).
If you want to block only the access to the data of the collection event or the collector, choose them in the tree and enter your reason for withholding the data in the corresponding fields. The data will only be published, if these fields are empty.
Within the database a user has only access to the data of those projects for which he has permission. If a data set belongs to a certain project, it is stored in the table CollectionProject.
To prevent publication
of the data it can be blocked
for the whole data set (table CollectionSpecimen),
for the locality as a whole and for the collection date
(table CollectionEvent), for
the collectors (table CollectionAgent) (for the collectors an
anonymisation is available), the organisms (table IdentificationUnit) and the parts (table CollectionSpecimenPart) - see
overview below - and for all image tables: CollectionSpecimenImage,
CollectionEventImage,
CollectionEventSeriesImage and CollectionImage. The transaction provide the possiblity of an embargo (see below).
To edit the withholding
reasons for all specimen
selected in the main window choose Administration -
Withhold data... from the menu. As an
alternative choose Data -
Cache database... from the menu. There in
the projects part click on the
button to edit the withholding reasons for a
single project. A
window will open as shown below, giving a summary of all
withholding reasons set
for the selected specimen and related data.
To edit the withholding reasons for certain entries choose the corresponding page where the details are listed as shown below.
To block all data enter a new
reason for
withholding the data and click on the
Add withholding reason to
all ... button
or the
... only to
selected button, if only the selected entries should be blocked.
To remove the withholding reason from all data sets click on the
Remove
withholding reasons for all ... button or the
... only from
selected button, if only the selected entry should be published.
To mark data to be not
published for a certain
period you can define a
data embargo and
include the data in this data embargo.
The user's access to the data within the database is stored in the tables shown below. The tables UserProxy and ProjectProxy are related to the Diversity Workbench modules DiversityUsers and DiversityProjects respectively. See User administration for further details.
