Overview

Key concepts

The following key concepts are used throughout these pages:

A Bookmark is a logical grouping of satellite products and/or Output products and/or reference data held together for a particular purpose. A Bookmark is identified by a name and a description. Users can view and manage their Bookmarks either within the Data Panel or the Manage & Share interface.
A Group is a collection of users with a common interest. Groups allow users to both communicate and share material within a selected number of peers. They are managed via the Manage & Share interface.
A Service is a data processing or visualisation application, or workflows made available to the users.
A Job is a specific data processing activity that has been instigated by the user. Clicking on the Jobs section of the Data Panel allows users to explore Job status. If it has multiple input products, then a job may also be comprised of several subjobs.
A Collection is a group of data grouped together due to their common nature. For example, the set of all outputs of a given service would typically be grouped as a Collection.

Insula is composed by three different applications:

Perception, allowing users to search and exploit available data and processing outputs.
Intellect, allowing users to develop (this fucntionality is only available to advanced users), run and monitor processing jobs.
Awareness, allowing users to control who has access to their data, services or uploaded files that they own. It also allows to get information about their account details and transaction history.