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Organize Your Research with Workspace

Welcome to OpenConstruction Workspace

Workspace turns one-time browsing into an organized research workflow. Because it stores saved resources and comparison lists for later use, Workspace requires you to sign in.

Organize Your Research with Workspace tutorial title slide

Sign In Securely

Open the public sign-in page. Use a trusted identity provider such as GitHub, Google, or ORCID, or request a secure email link. OpenConstruction does not store or manage passwords.

OpenConstruction homepage used to begin the sign-in process

Browse and Save Relevant Resources

Browse the public catalogs and save resources that look relevant. For example, you might save a dataset or model to revisit later in your Workspace.

Personal Library showing saved research resources

Review Saved Items

Open Workspace to review the resources you saved. Your Personal Library keeps those candidates together and supports comparison across multiple items.

Dataset catalog and saved Personal Library resources

Open the Comparison Tool

Select the resources you want to evaluate together, then choose Compare to open the comparison workflow.

Compare action highlighted in Personal Library

Compare Selected Candidates

Use the comparison view to examine selected items side by side. Focus on the metadata and evidence most relevant to your research decision.

Selected resources ready for comparison in Personal Library

Export Selected Information

Use the export options to save selected resource information outside Workspace. Exported records can support notes, review, or collaboration beyond the platform.

Resource metadata and export information in Personal Library

Organize Evidence for Decisions

Workspace helps you move from discovering resources to organizing evidence and making informed decisions: sign in, save, organize, compare, and export.

Workspace tutorial conclusion summarizing the research workflow

You are now ready to turn resource discovery into an organized and reusable research workflow.