GCRI · Foundry
Projects and workspaces
In Foundry, all work happens inside a project: a bounded workspace with a scope, an accountable owner, data terms and a review plan. This page, published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), explains how projects and workspaces are scoped and authorised. It describes the model only; it never displays project data, participants or privileged information. Information and enquiries are open today.
Projects and workspaces in four parts.
A project is defined before it is opened.
- the question or mission and the institution that owns it;
- the accountable owner and the people and agents who may act;
- the data the project may use, with the owner’s terms for each source;
- the systems it may reach and the deployment profile it runs on;
- the openness profile, from open through consortium-shared and confidential to restricted;
- the review plan, the outputs expected and the closeout point.
Authenticated is not authorised.
Signing in proves who you are. It does not decide what you may do. In the design of the NXS-NSF (trust, authorisation and assurance), each request is evaluated against the project’s policy and the caller’s identity, mandate and purpose, and requests without an explicit decision fail closed.
Who is asking
A verified identity, with any delegation recorded.
On whose authority
The role and mandate under which the person or agent acts in this project.
For what
The purpose and data class, checked against the owner’s terms.
Shared rooms, separate permissions.
Projects are designed to share a common set of rooms, such as Station, Mission, Maps, Data, Builder, Reports and Knowledge, so that work looks the same across systems. What a person sees in each room depends on the project’s permissions, not on the room.
An application for a project is not acceptance, and a payment is never access to restricted data.
How a project is proposed.
Projects open when their terms and review capacity exist. Institutions can describe a candidate project to the contact form. Platforms across the network describe the builds they need on their own Foundry pages, for example Build in Foundry for Labs.
Questions and answers.
Can I see other institutions’ projects?
Who can be a project owner?
Does the openness profile affect results?
What happens when a project closes?
Can a project span several countries?
Bring a method, a dataset or a question.
Information and enquiries are open today. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
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