Workspace Service Overview

The Workspace Service enables collaborative, contextual organization of scientific content and resources in the SDL ecosystem. It provides a semantic and user-facing structure for managing collections of linked data.

It supports:

Creation and management of workspaces scoped by users, projects, platforms, or roles
Linking of resources from the Registry, Repository, and Catalog services
Namespacing and versioning of RDF content within a workspace
Integration with frontend applications for visual interaction and editing

Core Features

Workspaces

A workspace is a container for semantically linked resources such as:

Experiments, workflows, samples
Documents and procedures
Datasets and catalogs

Each workspace has a unique URI and may be bound to an LDP container or graph root.

Membership and Access

Supports individual and group membership
Integrated with RBAC (role-based access control)
Resources may be public, shared, or private

Namespace and Identity

Workspaces define default namespaces for resource creation
URI minting strategies align with registry and repository conventions

Example Workspace Definition

ex:aclWorkspace a sdl:Workspace ;
  dct:title "ACL Sample Workflow" ;
  dct:creator <https://acl-sdl.ornl.gov/users/swen> ;
  dct:created "2025-07-15"^^xsd:date ;
  dcat:dataset acl:xrdDataset, acl:tgaDataset ;
  dcat:service acl:xrdRawService ;
  sdl:graphRoot <https://acl-sdl.ornl.gov/workspaces/acl/> .

Usage Patterns

Semantic document editors like SDL Notebooks or Narrative Viewers
Team-based annotation of RDF resources
Experimental design and traceability across dataset lifecycles