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Works can be shared giving individual users or groups of users edit access or read access. Edit access give the users full editing access to the work. Read access allows users to view the work even when it is private.
See also Participants which describes roles for Collections and Works.
See also Setting groups vs. users as participants.
Work
The basic content item in the repository. Works bring together file(s) and associated metadata and presents them as one intellectual object. Example: A single dissertation (PDF and descriptive information) or a dataset containing multiple files (spreadsheets, images, text files and descriptive information).
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