Create a workspace
How to create a workspace and set its basics.
From Workspaces, create a new one, name it, choose personal or collaborative, and save. Setting up members comes next.
Who can create one
Creating a workspace requires the permission to do so, and how that permission is handed out is decided by your institution when it sets up its CHORUS instance - not by CHORUS itself.
The same goes for what happens immediately afterwards: depending on how your institution has configured things, whoever creates a workspace may automatically become its administrator, its data manager, both, or neither. Some institutions want the creator to run the workspace; others want that separated from the outset.
If you are not sure what applies where you work, ask whoever administers your instance.
Create a workspace
Go to Workspaces
From the dashboard, open Workspaces.
Start a new workspace
Select Create workspace.
Name and describe it
Give it a clear name and a short description so collaborators know its purpose. Both are visible to everyone who can see the workspace.
Choose personal or collaborative
Decide whether it is private to you or shared with a team. See What a workspace is for the difference.
Save, and wait for it to be ready
The platform builds the workspace: its isolated environment, its network rules, and any services you asked for. This takes a moment, and the workspace reports itself ready once everything has settled.
What you are choosing
Two of those choices are worth pausing over, because they shape how the workspace behaves afterwards.
How connected it is. A new workspace is air-gapped by default - no outbound network access at all. That is deliberate: a workspace starts sealed, and opening it up is a decision someone has to take and justify. If your project needs to reach an external resource, that is a conversation with whoever administers your instance, not a checkbox you tick on the way past.
What runs in it. A workspace can run services - a database, for example - that keep going independently of anyone's session. These can be added when the workspace is created or at any point later, so there is no need to decide everything up front.
Personal or collaborative - which should I create?
Start personal if the work is genuinely yours alone: exploring a dataset, trying a tool, preparing something before anyone else is involved.
Create a collaborative workspace when a project exists - when there are participants, agreed datasets, and rules about who may see what. A collaborative workspace is tied to that governance, which is what allows other people to be added to it.
Work that grows from individual to shared does not migrate on its own. At that point someone sets up a collaborative workspace with the right people in it.
What is next
For a collaborative workspace, the next step is adding people - see Manage members.