# Projects and resources

Projects and resources are the building blocks of the Palantir platform, powered by the [Compass application](../../compass/overview/index.md).

## Resources

Working in the platform often involves creating **resources**. These include datasets which are the outputs of a data connection or a transform, or manually uploaded data, and the artifacts from various platform applications like repositories, analyses, reports, or applications.

A *resource* is analogous to a *file* in a traditional system. In the Palantir platform, we use the term "resource" to avoid confusion, as some resources, such as a dataset or a code repository, can contain files within them.

While each resource type opens in a different platform application, resources share some common information. Some examples include who last updated a resource and when; which users have access at different levels; features like leaving comments and marking favorites; and interactions like moving, sharing, and trashing. Additionally, each resource has a unique identifier called a resource identifier, or RID, which is standardized across applications.

## Projects

Resources live within **Projects**, which form boundaries between groups of related resources and provide features to enable collaboration. These features include managing permissions for who can access the project resources; showing you the latest project activity and metrics about usage; and curating project metadata like documentation, key resources, and data health. Each project has a list of users or groups who have access to the project and are assigned **Viewer**, **Editor**, or **Owner** permissions on project resources. Within projects, resources can be organized into **folders** to provide further structure and keep things clean.

In addition to projects created for collaboration, every user has a personal project. You can access your Project by navigating to **Files** from the workspace navigation sidebar and then selecting **Projects**. As you start to use applications, resources you create will appear in your personal Project by default.

## Learn more

You can learn more about how to manage your Foundry resources, upload data, and navigate projects by reviewing the [documentation for the Compass application.](../../compass/overview/index.md)