Core Concepts

Users on Sundog belong to one or more Labs. This relationship is called an affiliation.

Although you have may have joined Sundog as a user of a specific lab, your account is not tied to that lab: you can use your account throughout your career, moving between labs.

Experiments belong to a specific Lab. An experiment is a container for work - notably, Uploads and Stacks. Anyone in a Lab can create an experiment.

Experiments can be placed into one or more Projects. Projects are ways to organise experiments, and ways to control access to them.

Users outside your lab, who are not affiliated members, can be invited to projects as guests. Guests have limited permissions, and must be added to projects individually, each time using up one of your lab’s guest passes.

An Upload is a single file that you have uploaded to an Experiment. It may contain one or more pages, as per the TIFF spec.

A Stack is the place you’ll do work on Sundog: one or more pages from one or more uploads. Putting things in a Stack allows you to view them with other people in the StackViewer; this is where you can manipulate, annotate, and discuss work.