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Generally speaking: everything is an item in sensor registry.awi.de, covering the whole range from of platform-like items, such as . Examples of items in sensor.awi.de are not only vessels, AUVs, or stations via toolsmeasuring stations, but also collecting instruments, such as fish nets, pumps, or grabbing systems to sensors , and the sensor itself, such as methane sensorssensor, piezometerspiezometer, and nutrient analysersanalyser.
We always strive to use standardized vocabularies to describe items in sensor registry.awi.de, such as NERC (BODC 2021). Thus, for instance, the item "losgatos_awi_1303" can be attributed as to one of the cavity enhanced absorption spectrometers operated at AWI (http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB38/2/). Nonetheless, items cannot always be attributed with standardized vocables.
Every item must be assigned to a type (see table below). In the example, the LosGatos AWI 3K430000001303 is of type cavity enhanced absorption spectrometers. Its parent item is the station Radartower Helgoland , a station.
Overview tab of LosGatos AWI 3K430000001303 (4044) – Labversion of Greenhouse Gas Analyzer – at sensor registry.awi.de. |
Short names are the semantical foundation of every item. They are required to be as unique as possible, so it has proven to be good practise to attach the serial or asset number to the item, e.g. losgatos_awi_1303.
Even if there are numerous examples, short names shall be lower case only. Technically it is possible to set them upper case, but there are other places in the process chain that are case-sensitive. Be also aware that you cannot create items with the same short name under one parent item.
The respective setup of an item can be derived from the full URN (Uniform Resource Locator). It is the concatenation of all participating items, e.g.:
The topmost item in the URN hierarchy is also stated with its item type, such as vessel.
Occasionally items are not assigned to a specific parental item, e.g when drifters are deployed somewhere. Then the URN reads without parental item, e.g. drifter:drifter_gmr_bgcd01 (6070) and it is a free-floating item with a URN syntax derived from the item type.
Recently the development of sensor registry.awi.de brought UUIDs for everything. The item station:radar_tower_helgoland:losgatos_awi_1303 has the UUID af127496-b8a6-4c4d-9b95-8c42f6a22afe. As of today (2021-06-17 15:18:15) UUIDs are only available via API.
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name | id | meta | uuid |
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public | 1 | Item is completely describe and in use | a080ff68-30b2-450a-9a44-06ecd244c0b7 |
construction | 2 | Item description is currently being created | 380e59eb-5f70-4d6f-9f79-c212c5141e20 |
devicestore | 3 | Item is currently not on a mission | d251b7d5-3476-4606-81d4-1f76632eb802 |
decom | 4 | Item is retired and not used anymore | 8fa8fd50-a2bf-49ea-991d-03b85cee1b7f |
In sensor.awi.de the history per item is tracked. Two entities must be considered: history of item configurations and history of item operations.
In the UI always the most recent configuration of the item is displayed. Former item configurations are accessible via the dropdown menu (below the blue bar on the top). Each item version comes with a PID, such as https://hdl.handle.net/10013/sensor.8e03063e-6179-48b4-b626-a25573727623, thus you can specificly address and reference a certain setup of your device, e.g. in reports or articles. This was used for example by Wulff, Lehmenhecker, and Hagemann (2016) when they referenced https://doi.pangaea.de/10013/sensor.664525cf-45b9-4969-bb88-91a1c5e97a5b to describe configuration of an AUV.
Following the link leads to a former setup of the item. (link: https://hdl.handle.net/10013/sensor.9fd3386a-6c1a-4775-bcbb-cc5d50e27494)
Remark: Some actions necessarily create a new version (https://spaces.awi.de/x/0oa0FQ). Versioning is permanently applied to all items and subitems, even if an action is applied to an item but not to its subitems each subitem gets a new handle as well, however, the action itself is not written to the subitems. This behavior is intended to have a proper documentation of the items, even if parts are not involved in certain phases of a measurement procedure.
For item operations the Actions (see https://spaces.awi.de/x/0oa0FQ) are the place to store and handle such things.
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