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Edit/Configure Resource

Project owners can adjust the resources as often as they like. In the edit menu for each resource, there are three tabs available:

Opening the Resource Configuration Menu

There are two ways to open the resource configuration menu:

  • On the project homepage: Hover your mouse over a resource. Click on the pencil icon that appears.
  • In the resources view: Click the pencil icon next to the resource name (see Figure 1).

Resource interface with the ‘Configure resource’ button.

Figure 1 - The ‘Show resource configuration’ button

At the top of the edit menu, you will find the most important metadata for your resource. This includes the project and resource name, the Resource Type and the Persistent Identifier. Under Quota, you can also see the storage space still available for the resource in relation to the space already in use. Clicking the cog icon at the bottom of the screen takes you directly to the project’s Quota Management Tool.

Under important metadata, there are three tabs where you can edit the resource.

Resource metadata

In this tab, you will find an overview of all the most recently entered resource metadata (see Figure 2) and can edit it if required.

The ‘Setup’ tab in Coscine’s resource configuration, with options for selecting storage locations and access types.

Figure 2 – ‘Resource Metadata’ tab in the resource editing menu

Metadata profile

In this tab, you will find the metadata profile selected when creating the resource (see Figure 3). You cannot change the metadata profile, but you can customise it (for more information on these functions, see create a resource).

You can also download the metadata profile here for use outside Coscine (via the Download metadata profile button).

The ‘Metadata Profile’ section of the resource configuration, where metadata fields can be selected and edited in Coscine.

Figure 3 – ‘Metadata Profile’ tab in the resource editing menu

Actions

There are three actions available in this tab (see Figure 4):

'Actions' tab in the configuration menu with the options

Figure 4 - Tab "Actions" in the resource configuration tool

Hint: Read-Only Mode

Now data and metadata cannot be edited by users anymore. However they can still read and download data as usual. To add or edit data members with the role "Project Owner" (see Rights and Membership Management) can deactivate the "Read-Only" status and reinstate it afterwards.