Managing Responsibilities

You can manage the access of your ontologies and assign responsibilities.

Note: An ontology has a default Main Owner (the user who imported or created the ontology) that can:
  • perform the available actions (see table, step 3)
  • transfer the main ownership
  • delete an ontology

  1. Select an ontology in Favorites, My Ontologies or All ontologies tab.
  2. In the ontology panel, click Responsibilities.
  3. Click to add a user or a User Group and enter a user name or a group name in the Viewer, Author, or Owner section.

    Viewer Author Owner
    Read Yes Yes Yes
    Modify content

    (ontology resources)

    		 No Yes Yes
    Export No Yes Yes
    Validate No Yes Yes
    Share No No Yes
    Modify

    (description, label, etc.)

    		 No No Yes
    For more information about the User Group creation, see Social and Collaborative: User Groups: Creating a User Group.
    Note: In a User Group, a user must have the Data Steward role to access the ontologies.

  4. Click Add.
  5. Optional: Only for Main owners: You can transfer the main ownership of an ontology:
    1. Click
    2. Enter the name of the new Main Owner
    3. Click Ok
  6. Optional: You can change or remove a user responsibility.
    1. In the user profile click .
    2. Select one of the following items depending on the action needed:

      • Revoke responsibility
      • Viewer
      • Author
      • Owner