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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 items to be mounted on board of a vessel should be assigned to the corresponding vessel while an item which is deployed manually like (e.g. 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 platformsplatform (e.g. CTDs in use during the MOSAiC experiment (campain PS122) is a good example for this scenario. In this ; in this case, because the CTDs are being used in water, on ice or on zodiac it and tus makes little sense to assign it to a particular platform). Thus we recommend you to discuss in advance your particular use case with one of the chief editors listed under SENSOR (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.

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 and STORAGE (for setting the path to data files for a particular item)