Projects in TextGrid are used to manage access to objects (such as TEI/XML texts, XSLT adaptors and images). Every TextGrid object belongs to a specific project. You can start a new project  in order to create or copy objects.

Registration is required to use the full range of the TextGrid services and in order to access the Grid. There are two alternate options: (1) Register for a TextGrid Account or (2) login via the DFN authentification and authorization infrastructure to access TextGrid through a sign-on at your home institution.

In the Users and Project Management module, three views are enabled by default:

• Navigator lists all projects in which you have been assigned a role
• User Management lets you add users to the project and assign roles
• Role Help explains the roles and the access rights attached to them

There are four possible roles for users in TextGrid. Each role is invested with a different set of rights regarding resources and projects in TextGrid. The creator of a project can select other TextGrid users, associate them with the project and assign one or more specific roles to them:

• Project Leader: Right to delegate roles and rights; rights for publishing resources (Project Leader is the default role for the creator of a new project)
• Administrator: Delete rights for objects
• Editor: Read and write rights (as well as to create and edit objects)
• Observer: Read rights

When the new project has been created, TextGrid objects (such as TEI/XML texts, XSLT adaptors and images) can be added or an existing object belonging to another project can be copied into the new project.

Objects can be published in order to be readable for the general public. Published objects in TextGrid cease to be editable and can no longer be deleted.

Further information is available here:

R2.3: User's Manual TextGrid-Tools (on page 24-31)