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Before getting started make sure you discuss your particular use case with one of the chief editors listed under SENSOR page (for your insittute or project if applied). You should also visit the our YouTube channel (work-in-progress), in particular watch the ones we recommend under SENSOR. So that you will be able to easily find your device using the facetted search make sure the chief editor has created for you in advance the following attributes

• the tag for "Collection"
• the tag for your "Institute"; in case your affiliation is different form the institute which owns the device, make sure this is also created. In addition to entering your own role (example PI, tehcnical, etc) you are requested to enter also the name of the institute which owns the device.

While creating a new item, you need to consider whether it should be tagged to an existing platform type or not. For example, for an item to be mounted on board of a vessel should be assigned to the corresponding vessel while an item which is deployed manually like a drilling instrument is not be assigned to any platform (choose NA). This also holds for items which are used within a project at distinct platforms. CTDs in use during the MOSAiC experiment (campain PS122) is a good example for this scenario. In this case, because the CTDs are being used in water, on ice or on zodiac it makes little sense to assign it to a particular platform.

You will be asked to create a short and long name for your device. Keep in mind that the short names cannot be modified once created because they are in-use by INGEST.