Omeka - Overview of Roles.md

Public (unauthenticated)

View public-facing content

Guest (requires Guest User plugin)

Everything above, plus:

• See items which require authentication (currently only plugin additions)
• Can't see admin section

Researcher: View auth-facing content

Everything above, plus:

• See items in admin section

Contributor: Adds content, can't set if public-facing

Everything above, plus:

• See items in admin section (Doesn't include non-public items from other users with the contributors role)
• Add items in admin section
• Tag items
• Edit self-owned items
• Delete self-owned items
• Create their own exhibits from public items BUT NOT ADD ITEMS TO EXHIBIT, despite what the docs say.
• Can't set items public
• Can't see items from other contributer-role users which aren't public

Admin: Manages public-facing content, basically editor+author hybrid tasks

Everything above, plus:

• Set items public
• See items from all contributors

Super User: Manages the site

Everything above, plus:

• See all
• Change all
• Add all