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Managing your datasets

The dashboard is your home base. Every dataset you own appears there, sorted by most recently updated. This page is the dashboard tour in written form, handy if you dismissed the on-screen tour or want a reference.

Reading a dataset card

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Each card has four zones:

  • Header. Dataset id, name, status badge, and modality tags.
  • Description. The summary from dataset_description.json.
  • Facts. Subjects, total size, version, DOI (when assigned), last update.
  • Actions. View, collaborators, GitHub, and depending on state: request publication or delete.

What the status badges mean

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  • Draft. Private, no review requested yet. You can edit, re-upload, or delete.
  • Awaiting review. You’ve clicked Request publication; an admin will be in touch via email.
  • Published. Public, has a DOI, listed on Discover and indexed by the catalog.
  • Denied. The admin sent feedback; address it and re-request.
  • Validation failed. BIDS validation failed; fix and re-upload, then request again.

Deleting a draft

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Drafts are deletable from the card’s footer. We require typing DELETE to confirm. Once a publication request is in flight (or the dataset is public), the delete button disappears, published datasets can only be retracted by an admin.

Inviting collaborators

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Click Collaborators on any dataset card. The page at /dataset/<id>/collaborators lists the current owner and collaborators. Owners and admins can invite new collaborators by NEMAR username. The invited user gets push access to the dataset’s git repo immediately.

To remove a collaborator today, contact [email protected], per-dataset removal is being added in nemar-cli#577.

When something looks off

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  • A card vanished. The dashboard sorts by recent activity; older datasets paginate. Use the search at Discover if you can’t find one quickly.
  • You can’t click Request publication. The button is hidden when the dataset is public, when a request is already in flight, or when BIDS validation is failing. The badge tells you which.
  • Your account is pending. Most actions are locked until an admin approves your account; this usually takes <1 business day.