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).