Collaboration
This section covers the basic modes of collaboration between different organisations in AURORAL.
The first two collaboration options create the possibility to access metadata or context information from remote nodes of other organisations.
Read more detailed info about the collaboration in AURORAL here
Communities
These are open to everybody groups, that can be used to share context data about same domains or topics of interest. These groups are free to join, but the discovery queries will still be restricted based on the visibility levels of the items under each node. As an example, if organisation A queries all nodes in a community, the result will be all the context info of the public items and of the 'for friend' items that belong to partners of organisation A.
Partnerships
These are 1 to 1 deals, two organisations agree to share context data of all their nodes added to this group. Again visibility rules apply, so private items metadata will not be accessible by the partner.
The last collaboration option allows access to data, and has as a prerequisite that both organisations are partners.
Contracts or data sharing agreements
After a contract is agreed, both organisations can add items to it. These items data will be accessible from the partner nodes & items that are included in the deal.
