Creating a Project (OSF Projects)
What are projects and components?
OSF projects are the most flexible workspaces that OSF supports. A project can be an experiment, a lab group, a paper—anything that has contributing members and files or explanatory texts/images.
Components are sub-projects, or “child” projects. Components help organize your research and create a hierarchy within your parent project. A component's privacy settings, contributors, tags, wikis, add-ons, and files are separate from the parent project.
Helpful guide to creating a project.
Create a Project From a template
Create a new project using another project's structure as a template. When using a project as a template, the project along with any components and their titles will be copied to the new project.
Looking for project examples? Here are a growing list of examples of how to structure your project:
- Example 1: https://osf.io/yaqe8/
If you choose, components can inherit the contributors and tags of a parent project for more information see our help guide: Create a Component
