Project specific best practices and recommendations are listed under "Projects"
An item is a general term for describing platforms, devices or sensors. Every item must be assigned to a type. For example the platform "Polarstern" is of type "Vessel" whereas the "TM_Ice_Corer_2 and UAF_TM_Ice_Corer_3" is an item of type "Corer".
Platforms generally carries 1-n devices which in turn may also have their own (sub)devices.
While creating a new item, you need to consider whether it should be tagged to a classical platform type (e.g. Vessel, Station, Vehicle, etc) or not. Generally speaking, we strongly 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 will be requested to assign a short name for all items you want to create. Items are uniquely identified via a local URN identifier (URN means Uniform Resource Locator) using the item type and individual short name syntax .. Example: vessel:ms_hel:fb_740602 points to the ferrybox on MS Helgoland.
While creating a short 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). Be also aware that you cannnot create items with the same short name under one parent item.