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This guide takes you from a new account to a shared dataset. Along the way you’ll meet the core ideas — projects, assets, and permissions — covered in depth in Key concepts.

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Before you begin

You’ll need:
  • An invitation to a DataErai organization, or your institution’s DataErai sign-up link.
  • A data file to upload. Anything works for this walkthrough — a CSV, an image, or an instrument output file.
Your organization is your institution or lab’s home in DataErai. If you don’t belong to one yet, ask your DataErai administrator to invite you.

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Sign in

1

Create your account

Open your DataErai site and go to Sign up. Create an account with your name, email, and a password, or choose Continue with Globus to sign in with your institutional Globus identity.
2

Verify your email

If you signed up with a password, DataErai emails you a verification link. Open it to activate your account, then sign in.

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Create a project

A project is a workspace for a study, grant, or effort. It holds your data and controls who can see it.
1

Open the new project dialog

From the main view, choose to create a project.
2

Name your project

Give it a Name and an optional Description, then click Create. You become the project’s Admin, so you can invite others and manage access.
You can make a project publicly readable at creation time, or keep it private and share it selectively later. See Sharing and permissions.

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Upload your first dataset

Each piece of data in DataErai is an asset — a file (or bundle of files) plus its metadata. The fastest way to add one is to upload it in the browser.
1

Open the upload dialog

Inside your project, start an upload — or drag a file directly onto the page.
2

Add details

Give the asset a title and any tags. If DataErai recognizes the file format, it shows a metadata preview with fields extracted from the file, which you can review before uploading.
3

Upload

Start the upload. Progress is shown live, and the asset becomes available as soon as the transfer finishes.
Moving many files or very large datasets? Use the high-throughput, resumable desktop app and CLI instead of the browser.

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Share it

Sharing is controlled per object using three roles:
RoleWhat it allows
ReadView metadata, content, and notes
WriteRead, plus edit metadata, content, and notes
AdminWrite, plus share the object with others
1

Open permissions

Open your project, collection, or asset’s permissions.
2

Grant access

Add a person or a group and choose Read, Write, or Admin. To share with anyone via link, enable public access — public access is always read-only.

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Next steps

Key concepts

How organizations, projects, collections, assets, and datasets fit together.

Get data in

Browser uploads, metadata extraction, and the desktop app and CLI.

Organize & describe

Group data into collections and add notes and provenance.

Sharing & permissions

Roles, groups, public links, and restricted fields.