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My Contributions

The My Contributions section is accessible from the My Workspace area, where it serves as a reference point for tracking your activities.

My Contributions is the place where you monitor what happens after you create something in HORTUS. It is your personal follow-up area for research outputs, project pages, and metadata proposals. Instead of wondering whether your work is still a draft, already submitted, waiting for approval, or ready for reuse, you can check its status in one structured workspace view.

This feature is especially valuable for researchers because it reduces uncertainty. Publishing or contributing to a collaborative research platform can feel opaque if you do not know what happens after clicking Save or Send to moderation. My Contributions makes that process visible. It helps you understand where your work currently stands in the HORTUS lifecycle and what your next action should be.

It is also attractive because it does not treat research activity as a single flat list. Instead, it organizes contributions by entity type and by lifecycle stage, so that you can immediately distinguish between work that is still being prepared, work that has already been submitted, and work that may require a moderation decision.

What My Contributions manages

My Contributions covers three main contribution types:

Each type represents a different way of contributing to the HORTUS research environment. Resources correspond to research outputs and catalogue items. Metadata formats correspond to structured descriptive models that can later be reused on the platform. Projects correspond to research initiative pages and collaboration spaces.

Why this matters for researchers

My Contributions is useful because it allows you to:

For a researcher, this means that My Contributions is not only a status page. It is a research workflow monitor. It gives visibility over the evolution of your contributions and helps you stay in control of your work over time.

How the feature is structured

The main logic of My Contributions is simple: it separates your work by type and then by stage.

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Main areas of the feature

My Contributions area What it is for Typical user action
Resources / Metadata / Projects tabs Separate contribution types so you can focus on one kind of entity at a time. Move to the tab that matches the item you created or submitted.
Overview cards / panels Give a quick visual summary of what is still draft, what has been submitted, and what may require moderation. Use the overview first to decide where your attention is needed.
Show all links Open the full detailed list for one panel or one lifecycle stage. Use Show all when you want to move from the dashboard summary into the corresponding list view.
Status filters Narrow the list to a specific lifecycle state such as waiting for approval or rejected. Filter the list to focus only on the items that currently matter.
Moderator actions Enable authorised users to review and decide on pending contributions. Approve or reject a contribution if you have moderation rights.
Joining project requests and invitations Surface collaboration-related signals linked to project participation. Check whether your request to join a project is still pending, or whether you received a new invitation.

How to read the lifecycle panels

For each contribution type, My Contributions uses a dashboard logic based on three main panels.

Panel What it shows Why it matters
Left panel Items to be sent to moderation or items in the moderation queue. This area is especially relevant for authorised moderators or users with review rights. It identifies the contributions that still need a decision step before they can move forward.
Middle panel Your draft items. These are contributions you started but have not yet submitted. It helps you return to unfinished work and continue refining it before sending it into the review workflow.
Right panel My items — your own submitted or tracked contributions. It helps you monitor what you already created and whether those items are waiting for approval, accepted, or otherwise progressing through the lifecycle.

In the Projects area, My Contributions includes two additional boxes that are not simply about publication status, but about project participation and collaboration.

Additional project box What it shows Why it matters
Requests to join Requests you submitted to join a project. Helps you see whether a membership request is still pending or has already been processed.
My invitations Invitations you received to join projects. Helps you follow collaboration opportunities that other project leaders sent to you.

These extra project boxes make the Projects contribution area especially rich, because it combines both publication tracking and community participation tracking. It shows that projects in HORTUS are not only pages to publish, but also spaces where research collaboration is actively managed.

Typical lifecycle logic

A simple way to understand My Contributions is to read it as a lifecycle monitor.

Lifecycle stage What it usually means in My Contributions
Draft You created the item, but it is still a work in progress and not yet fully submitted.
Waiting for approval / waiting for moderation You submitted the item, and it is now waiting for a moderator or authorised reviewer to take a decision.
Approved The contribution has passed the review stage and can move into the next functional state of the platform.
Rejected The contribution was not accepted in its current form and may need revision before resubmission.

This lifecycle visibility is one of the strongest aspects of the feature. It gives the researcher a concrete understanding of how research data and entities evolve inside HORTUS.

Why this feature is important for researchers

For scholars, My Contributions is particularly reassuring because it makes platform workflows transparent.

Instead of seeing HORTUS as a place where content disappears into a black box after submission, users can see that contributions follow clear stages and that their work remains traceable. This supports confidence, autonomy, and better planning. It also encourages more active participation, because contributors can understand that their work is not lost: it is moving through a visible scholarly lifecycle.

In practical terms, My Contributions helps a young researcher to: