HUB
The Hub is the largest container on JOGL, in that it can host Communities, Projects, and Call for proposals. Hubs can also be affiliated to Organizations. If you have a profile on JOGL, you necessarily belong to at least one Hub: JOGL Global.
There are several ways to join a Hub:
1. You received an email invite. Click on the link in your email and follow the registration process.
2. You registered to JOGL independently. Use the “Explore JOGL” button in the top bar and find the Hub subtab to see a card collection of all the publicly accessible Hubs on JOGL. Click on the ones you like.
To switch between Hubs, click on a Hub icon on the left hand side of your screen, and then click “switch Hub” . For example in the image below, I see on the very top that I am in the Explore section of the Open Science Hub, but I have click on the Electro Active Hub Icon, and now all I need to do to access it is click on the “switch hub” button to the right.
A Hub hosts Communities, projects, organizations and members, and is automatically populated by all their Needs and Resources as well as Calls for Proposals.
It usually relates to an overarching thematic and regroups other objects and containers that link with that topic. Think of it as a network of networks where you can have visibility over all the actors and activities of a subject and have the opportunity to connect.
To learn more about how to manage a Hub you have created, refer to the Administrator Interface section.
Example. Imagine you are an organization whose goal it is to identify where consciousness originates. You could create a HUB on JOGL. You might call it “The Consciousness Project”.
From this Hub you can invite all the members or your organization and beyond. You can invite other organizations working on similar thematics, individual researchers, and informal communities pursuing this work. All these individuals and networks can then be divided into focused communities on JOGL using the Community Object detailed below. Convening such a large network of networks in this way may also be helpful in sourcing bigger pots of funding for communal research efforts.