A space is a collaborative unit: a group, a project, an organisation, an event, a community. It has a page of its own, a set of people with roles in it, and things it maintains — vocabularies, documentation, collections. Most of what happens on Nanodash happens inside some space.

A space is defined by a nanopublication, like everything else, and so is every membership, role and resource attached to it. What you see on a space page is the sum of those nanopublications, filtered by who was entitled to publish each of them.