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Creating basic metadata

While creating a new item, you need to consider whether it should be tagged to an existing platform type or not. For example, items to be mounted on board of a vessel should be assigned to the corresponding vessel while an item which is deployed manually (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 platform (e.g. CTDs in use during the MOSAiC experiment; in this case, because the CTDs are being used in water, on ice or on zodiac and tus thus makes little sense to assign it to a particular platform). Thus we recommend that 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)



Naming convention
While creating 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 within INGEST and STORAGE (for setting the path to data files for a particular item).



Relation to a project and affiliationItem affiliation/ownership

SENSOR allows us to keep track of the items owned by a given institute and the project context in which a given item has been acquired and deployed. This information . For this sake, fill out under the "Contacts" tab along with the name of the institute to which the item should be affiliated to (use the role "owner"). If your institute is not listed yes, please contact sensor (at) awi.de.

In addition to entering the "owner" of an item, you are also requested to enter the name of contact informaiton of PI, engineer-in-charge, data scientist, etc


Relation to a project/collection
SENSOR allows us to keep track of the relation of an item to a large-scale project/collection. If your project is not listed under the options, please contact sensor (at) awi. de


Ship-mounted and aircraft-mounted sensors as special use-case
These items represent a special use-case in SENSOR because the metadata is being maintained by a third-party company. In case the device you will be using in a given research vessel is not listed yet, please contact sensor (at) awi.de


Bookkeeping deployments of a sensor

In real life devices are being deployed in well-defined actions (e.g. action log from DSHIP) along with fixed payload of sensors. The data from the individual sensors are then stored in repositories like PANGAEA. In order to link the dataset to the information from SENSOR to a given event/action, it is important that you select the action of type deployment (=mount, commisioned). This will trigger the generation of a version of the device (including respective sensors) for the point in time a deployment action was carried out. In the new version you will find a cite-enabled PID (in this case a hnadle) for the instrument along with a recommended citation style. THe PID should be provided during dataset submission. In the PANGAEA example https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.857507 the handle  hdl:10013/sensor.664525cf-45b9-4969-bb88-91a1c5e97a5b points to SENSOR metadata specific for action/event

Because calibrations often involve changes in the data output, it is important to also document these as a stand-along action. In particular in this case, we remind you to additionally upload calibration certificates or documents.

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