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Data Storage & Management

Terra workspaces include a dedicated workspace Google bucket, as well as a built-in data model for managing your data. We provide articles in Terra’s knowledge base explaining how to organize and access data in a variety of ways.

A key to understanding the power of Terra is understanding it’s built-in data model, which allows you to rewire the inputs and outputs of your workflows and Jupyter notebooks.

The following resources give you guided instructions using cloud-based data with Terra: Article: ​VIdeo: Article: ​ Article: ​Video:

Managing data with tablearrow-up-right
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Introduction to Terra data tablesarrow-up-right
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Uploading to a workspace Google bucketarrow-up-right
How to import metadata to a workspace data tablearrow-up-right
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Making and uploading data tables to Terraarrow-up-right

Collaboration

Sharing a workspace allows collaborators to actively work together in the same project workspace. Workspaces can be used as repositories of data, workflows, and Jupyter notebooks. Learn more about how to securely share a workspace: Article: Article: Article: Video:

How to share a workspacearrow-up-right
Reader, writer or owner? Workspace access controls, explainedarrow-up-right
Using permissionsarrow-up-right
Introduction to Collaboration and Sharing in Terraarrow-up-right

Security

Terra has a number of features to ensure the security of sensitive data accessed through the platform. Many of these features are in place automatically, while tools like authorization domains give you greater control over your data. These articles contain an overview of the security features enabled on Terra: Article: ​Article: Article: Article:

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Managing data privacy and access with Authorization Domains arrow-up-right
Best Practices for accessing external resourcesarrow-up-right
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Terra security posturearrow-up-right

Workspace Setup

Workspaces are the fundamental building blocks of Terra. You can think of them as modular digital laboratories that enable you to organize and access your data in a number of ways for analysis.

To learn about the basics of operating a Terra workspace, we recommend these resources: Article: Working with workspaces arrow-up-rightVideo: Introduction to using workspaces in Terraarrow-up-right

Read on in this section to get familiar with:

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