AR01042_WODAN_Final_Report_10.pdf - The Heritage Council

3.6 MyWODAN
Part of the feedback from the workshops was centered on the level of information that users felt
comfortable presenting to the public. In some cases it would be appropriate to temporarily or
permanently hide results for particular sites. Reasons for this may include if the material is being
used for research such as for a PhD, be under embargo until publication or a client may not wish
for these results to be displayed. If this is the case then the MyWODAN button can be selected
and thus none of this site information or results will be displayed on the database. MyWODAN is
also a profile page where the specialist’s details and number of sites entered is displayed (Figure
4).
A further level of security was added with the WODAN colleague’s button. People can choose if
they wish to share the information only with their wood anatomy colleagues. The highest level of
availability is to tick neither MyWODAN nor WODAN colleagues. If this is the case then the
results are available to the general public.
The MyWODAN facility is very useful also in the respect that people can opt to query their
results only. This could be very important if you only wanted to harness your own results not
everybody else’s.
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