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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:
- Marketplace resources
- Metadata formats
- Projects
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:
- keep track of what you created or submitted
- return to items that are still drafts
- monitor items that are waiting for moderation
- understand whether a contribution has moved forward in its lifecycle
- follow collaboration-related signals such as project join requests and invitations
- act more confidently inside a moderated research platform
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
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:
- resume unfinished work without losing track of it
- know whether a submitted item is still pending
- understand when a contribution needs attention
- follow project-related collaboration signals
- experience HORTUS as a platform with visible, governed, and structured research workflows
What it manages
- drafts
- submitted items
- approved content
- rejected items
- published outputs
Why this matters
- centralised control of your work
- visibility of lifecycle status
- easier management of revisions
Structure
Items are usually organised by:
- type (resource, project, event, metadata)
- status (draft, pending, approved, published)
How to read lifecycle panels
Each item shows:
- current status
- required actions (if any)
- history of changes
Typical lifecycle logic
- Create item → Draft
- Submit → Pending
- Review → Approved / Rejected
- If approved → Published
- If rejected → revise and resubmit
Moderation workflow
Moderation is a core feature of HORTUS.
What moderators check
- content quality
- metadata completeness
- permissions
- consistency
Outcomes
- Approved → item progresses
- Rejected → revisions required
Implications for users
- publication is not immediate
- quality standards must be met
- iteration may be required
Best practices for publishing
- complete all metadata fields
- use clear and accurate descriptions
- attach relevant files
- verify permissions before submission
- review content before submitting
Summary
Publishing in HORTUS is:
- structured
- moderated
- metadata-driven
Users can:
- create multiple types of content
- track their lifecycle
- improve quality through review
- disseminate research outputs effectively