ESS-DIVE Reporting Format for Location Metadata
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The ESS-DIVE location metadata reporting format provides instructions and templates for reporting a minimum set of metadata for discrete point locations in geographic space represented by x, y, and z coordinates. This format was created based on a need for earth and environmental science researchers to more consistently provide metadata about locations where they conduct studies. To create the format, we incorporated elements from ESS-DIVE’s community reporting formats as well as 12 additional data standards or other data resources (e.g., databases, data systems, or repositories). In the template, we ask researchers to indicate unique locations using Location IDs and indicate hierarchies of locations through parent location IDs. We also provide additional optional fields for researchers to indicate how they measured the point location and the date and time that the location was first used as a research siteThis dataset contains support documentation for the reporting format (README.md and instructions.md), a terminology guide (guide.md), a crosswalk indicating how this reporting format relates to existing standards and data resources (Location_metadata_crosswalk.csv), a data dictionary (dd.csv), file-level metadata (flmd.csv), and the location metadata templates in both CSV (Location_metadata_template.csv) and Excel formats (Location_metadata_template.xlsx).
- Research Organization:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Environmental Systems Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI ID:
- 1865730
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
Country
Description
Elevation
Geographic region
Geolocation
Institution
Latitude
Location
Location_Alias
Location_DateTime_Start
Location_Date_End
Location_ID
Longitude
Measurement_method
Notes
Parent_Location_ID
Projection
Site description
Submission_Contact_Email
Submission_Contact_Name
UTC_Offset