User manual ECDS Data portal
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1. Sida 10 27 Revision This shows the dates for major changes to the dataset Revision consists of Revision date and Revision type Revision date is expressed as YYYY MM DD or Y YYY MM or YYYY You can also use the calendar except for Internet Explorer where the calendar does not work Revision type 1s the event used for revision date That is what happened to the dataset at the revision date Can be either Creation when dataset was created Publication when dataset was public or Revision a major change in the dataset Revision is mandatory and the can describe the history of the dataset when it was created when it has been revised etc Example Revision Date 2010 11 Clear Revision type Creation Revision Date e acs Gee aia pie id ak ks ak ian metra tunisie Revision Date 2012 10 19 al clear Revision type Revision Note There is a minor bug shown above If you add several revisions the text in the frame 1s Revision Date instead of Revision We will fix it in the next version of the portal Dataset version It is good practice to have a version number of the dataset if the dataset is changed now and then This means that someone using your data knows what dataset what version has been used in their research You can use your own notation of the version number e g 1 2 3 or A B C Dataset version is optiona2. Pod Title GEMET INSPIRE Spatial Data Themes Revision Revision Date 2008 06 01 Revision type Publication Here we have selected Sida 15 27 Atmospheric conditions Environmental monitoring facilities Title is fixed GEMET INSPIRE Spatial Data Themes Revision date is fixed 2007 06 01 Revision type is fixed Publication Example 3 INITIATIVE m Descriptive keywords from thesauris Keywords ES INITIATIVE l Geodatasamverkan inspire r Thesaurus name i 4 Title Initiative Keyword Revision Revision Date 2011 04 04 Revision type Publication Title is fixed Initiative keyword Revision Date is fixed 2011 04 04 Revision type is fixed Publication Use limitation Limitation affecting the fitness for use of the dataset for example The quality of the data is not good enough to be used as input observation data in climatological models If there is nothing relevant to say then write No known limitations Use limitation is mandatory Example Use limitation Access constraints Several choices Copyright Patent PatentPending Trademark License IntellectualPropertyRights Restricted OtherRestrictions Sida 16 27 We suggest you use Other restrictions and use the next metadata element that is
3. Atmosphere Atmospheric Water Vapor gt Precipitable Water Atmosphere gt i es eB ee lt a LE E a ee Generally the metadata records are sorted by Change date This means that the metadata records which have been changed most recently will appears at the top It is possible to sort the data in other ways e g alphabetical order The full metadata is shown when you press the metadata button Example The first lines from ASCOS SBANDRADAR O1 Note that you can distribute the metadata record by different social media e g Facebook or an ordinary e mail You can distribute metadata from your datasets or metadata for other datasets which you want to share You can also print metadata for a dataset on your printer Sida 25 27 Boge TT RE tomer ances nen aetna debere Se Io Oa orici Title ASCOS SbandRadar 01 CO ch 7 HE EHE TEHETEHETEHHUEHIE EHE HERE EHI HHEI HERUM HER Herpes iere eg Revision date 2009 09 01 Revision type Creation Date identifies when the resource was brought into existence Dataset Version 1 version Dataset Persson P O G V Leuski M Shupe I M Brooks and M Tjernstr m 2009 citation High temporal resolution observations of the thermal and kinematic vertical structure in the Arctic boundary layer during ASCOS Presentation 9 4 10th Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Conference Madison WI May 18 21 Fins set ASCOS was an interdisciplinary expedition to the central Arctic on the es
4. Other constraints Access constraints is mandatory Example Access constraints Other restrictions Other constraints We suggest you use the Creative Commons License and write Creative Commons Attribution see http creativecommons org licenses This means in short that this license lets others distribute remix tweak and build upon your work even commercially as long as they credit you for the original creation There are in total six Creative Commons Licenses to choose between If neither fits then you may write something like Constrained please contact the contact person for the dataset for more information Other constraints is mandatory Example Other constraints Creative Commons Attribution Language Language used in the dataset Dataset language is mandatory Default is English Example Language English Topic category code High level geographic theme from http gcmd nasa gov User difguide iso_topics html This is central to the standard ISO 19115 Select one or several topics from the list Topic category code is mandatory Example Topic category code Equivalent scale only used within INSPIRE Use one of the following options Denominator which is the scale of a map e g if the scale is 1 50000 denominator is 50000 Distance which is an approximate distance between observations Sida 17 27 r Equivalent scale ug EL c c c CDI CLE Denomina
5. Select all none actions on selection Sort by Change date ASCOS SBANDRADAR 01 Abstract Keywords Metadata ASCOS was an interdisciplinary expedition to the central Arctic on the icebreaker Oden from 1 August to 9 September 2008 The expedition focused on processes relating to cloud formation in the summe Atmosphere gt Altitude gt Planetary Boundary Layer Height Atmosphere gt Atmospheric Phenomena gt Storms Atmosphere gt Atmospheric Radiation gt Optical Depth Thickness Atmosphere gt Clouds gt Cloud Amount Frequency Atmosphere gt Clouds gt Cloud Asymmetry Atmosphere gt Clouds gt Cloud Forcing Atmosphere gt Clouds gt Cloud Height Atmosphere gt Clouds gt Cloud Optical Depth Thickness Atmosphere gt Clouds gt Cloud Precipitable Water Atmosphere gt Clouds gt Cloud Vertical Distribution Atmosphere gt Precipitation gt Hydrometeors Atmosphere gt Precipitation gt Precipitation Amount Atmosphere gt Precipitation gt Precipitation Rate Atmosphere gt Precipitation gt Rain Atmosphere gt Precipitation gt Sleet Atmosphere gt Precipitation gt Snow DUAL CHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER MEASUREMENTS AND RETRIEVALS Abstract Keywords ASCOS was an interdisciplinary expedition to the central Arctic on the icebreaker Oden from 1 August to 9 September 2008 The expedition focused on processes related to cloud formation in the summer
6. User Manual Author Dokument name Departement Jan Svensson User Manual ECDS Data Portal 2 2 S Approved Approved by Dnr Secracy 2013 10 29 Jan Svensson User Manual ECDS Data Portal 2 2 1 1 2011 10 18 Jan Svensson Updated for ECDS Data Portal 2 1 and some clarifications 1 2 2011 11 30 Jan Svensson Updated for ECDS Data Portal 2 1 2 and some clarifications 2011 12 14 Updated for ECDS Data portal 2 1 3 Updated for ECDS data portal 2 2 Approved Sida 1 27 Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1 eeeeeeeeee nnn nennen nnne nnne nnne he nun h enun nena 3 1 1 EB ieee 3 1 2 The GS Data DOM ae cube pu toda mt icut me toxin entia Onbucxu td outta ent t c au pnt eru mutua 3 1 3 The ECDS Metadata profile eseesseessseeseeeeneen nnnm 3 1 4 Re GreNCO S CNET 4 1 5 eric E RT E T 5 1 6 News in the ECDS Data portal cccccccceccceeeeceeeeseeeseeeeseeeeaueeseeeeseeesseeenenes 5 2 ES NIN LC gee sees cep cceseuceceeeeecnececeuceccencucceueeceseeueceuceceaetvencueseueeceseeecncuaea 6 2 1 tenera mortis OE oos emite eese b cs a a MM MID CIE D ee EE 9 2 2 Metadata Cl amp Menit ccccccccececeeseeeeseceeseeceeaeeuueeeaueeeaeeueaeeueaeeueaesaueeeaueeeaneess 10 3 SEARCHING oinn AEA EERIE 22 3 1 SIMPE SEAC seakan a E as eed E T 22 3 2 Advanced search 0 nene eee menee me nenne heme resin re sense eese eese nnns 23 3 3 DS CTC SU
7. Revision Date Fa Clear Revision type Publication Explanation Specifies functional and no functional requirements Compliance Completeness omission only valid within INSPIRE Describes to what extent an area has been covered that you have planned to investigate E g if you intended to investigate an area of 100 km and so far have only have investigated 60 km then write 60 100 Completeness omission 700 c00000000000000c00000l0cILl0cMcMIIMMeecel00 i Name of measure Coverage Completeness Value type ratio Value 60 100 Value unit km2 Name of measure is fixed 2 Coverage Completeness Value type is fixed ratio Value the ratio how much of the planned area that has been covered Value unit is fixed km square kilometres Metadata information The information about metadata is either fixed or created automatically Metadata information consists of Metadata identifier created automatically A unique identifier UUID for this metadata set Metadata language fixed English Scope of the metadata fixed Dataset Date stamp created automatically Name of the metadata standard fixed ISO 19115 2003 ECDS Version of the metadata standard fixed 2 1 Example Sida 21 27 m M cc Metadata identifier d985cecd 9090 4285 a251 c7a6fd7c7934 Metadata language English Scope of the metadata Dataset information
8. only INSPIRE Data area coverage only INSPIRE The additional five INSPIRE metadata elements are described in the end of chapter 2 after all the standard metadata elements 1 4 References 1 Geonetwork opensource the complete manual v 2 4 2 ECDS profile of ISO 19115 2003 Version 2 1 1 1 2013 05 21 3 Olsen L M G Major K Shein J Scialdone R Vogel S Leicester H Weir S Ritz T Stevens M Meaux C Solomon R Bilodeau M Holland T Northcutt R A Restrepo 2007 NASA Global Change Master Directory GCMD Earth Science Keywords Version 6 0 0 0 0 ftp ftp ncddc noaa gov pub Metadata Online_ISO_Training Intro_to_ISO handouts G CMD_Science_Keywords pdf Sida 4 27 4 GEMET Science keywords 2008 06 01 http www eionet europa eu gemet inspire themes 5 Geodata nationell metadataprofil Specification och v gledning SS EN ISO 19115 2005 geodata se Version 3 1 1 1 5 Glossary Metadata Metadata is data about data The term commonly refers to the attributes of computer data though it may by definition refer to any information which describes other information Geographical metadata includes information about What Where When Who How A standard for Geographic information Metadata 19115 International Polar Year 2008 2010 INSPIRE Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe Another name for keywords list SweStore A nationally accessible storage facility built as a robust flexi
9. Date stamp 2012 10 04T11 08 43 Name of the metadata I5019115 2003 ECDS standard Version of the metadata 2 1 standard Contact information regarding metadata This 1s the third of three required contact information entries and describes who to contact regarding the metadata for this dataset Each Point of contact consists of Individual name Organisation Electronic mail address and Role Name surname and first name of the person to contact Organisations are more permanent than individuals so please insert the organisation name E mail to the organisation person to contact Several roles are allowed We suggest you only use Point of contact Contact information regarding metadata 1s mandatory Example Contact information regarding metadata Individual Will Smith E mail will smith mail com name Organisation Uppsala University name Role Point of contact Now you are ready with your dataset You can Save it and come back later to finalise your metadata or you can send it to the Reviewer During the review the metadata record is not available but otherwise you can always go back and edit your metadata Once you have saved your metadata and edited the metadata there is a Delete button you can use to delete the metadata record for a dataset It is recommended that the metadata information is saved regularly while creating the metadata 3 Searching 3 1 Simple search To make a simple
10. date Start by clicking on When under the keywords box to display two input fields Start and Stop date Note There is a calendar available but it may not work for every web browser The search algorithm is Free text AND Keywords AND Geographical area AND Date Example Here we have selected Free text IPY Keywords Atmosphere Oceans gt Oceans Temperature Area as shown on the map Time from 2005 to 2010 Sida 23 27 Free text IPY SS Keywords _ Atmosphere 3 3 ceans 41 Marine Sediments m H Ocean Temperature L3 a Salinity Density Ocean Chemistry H Sea Ice a Ocean Circulation Coastal Processes a Ocean Waves A Where lat max 70 312 9 9 2L long long max 59 062 lat min 26 7 188 Type overlaps Region User defined When Anytime Temporal Extent From 2005 To 2010 Mja 3 3 Search results The search results are displayed to the right on the search page If there are many results they are split into pages Click through the pages by the navigation at the bottom of the page To see the full metadata for a result in the list click the metadata button To hide the metadata again click the metadata button again Example With the search profile above we found 7 matching datasets Note the figure is shown up to the right Sida 24 27 Aggregate Results matching search criteria 1 7 7 page1 1 O0 selected
11. search start by clicking on Search in the menu Then enter text in the Free text input box to the left and click the green search button at the bottom Examples Text Karin finds every dataset which contains the word Karin which may be an author s name Text IPY finds every dataset which contains the word IPY which mean every IPY project Text IPY 026 finds every dataset which contains the word IPY 026 which means every dataset from the project IPY 026 Sida 22 27 You may use as a wild card Example Text Creativ finds among others every data set which use Creative Commons licence However GeoNetwork uses a rather advanced algorithm for searching with wild card so the results are not always predictable The search result is show in a list to the right 3 2 Advanced search There are three ways of making more advanced searches By keywords Under the Free text field you will see a box containing a hierarchal list with all keywords that are connected to a public dataset To make a keyword search click on the plus button to go down through the hierarchy Select any level in the hierarchy by clicking on the text It will be marked with a light blue background If you want to select several keywords hold down the CTRL key while selecting the keywords Then click the green search button to make a search for these keywords By geographical area Start by clicking on Where under the keywords box to display the map By
12. IRE elements are not deleted but will be hidden 2 1 General information Before filling in the metadata elements read the following general information about buttons and other notifications Buttons Reset resets all metadata elements in this metadata record Save your metadata record is saved but you can continue to work Save and close your metadata record is saved and you leave the editing page and can view your saved metadata Sida 9 27 Save and send to reviewer your metadata is saved and a mail is sent to the reviewer who will review your metadata before it is made public During the review the metadata record is not available to you Check a formal check of your metadata record is done a rather formal check result don t bother Cancel means that you leave the publishing page without saving your metadata record Type at the bottom of the page Type is either Metadata or Template where Metadata is default Select Template to create your personal template which will be available only for you Use a title which shows that this is a Template not a Dataset e g Hugo template Useful information including in this template could be contact person information which may be the same for most of your datasets Notifications When you move the cursor over the name of a metadata element a is shown Click the left mouse button to show help text Click again and the help text disappears A red
13. S areia e aE E eA EE eiie 24 4 FUTURE FUNCTIONALITY creer eren nnn nnne nnn 26 Sida 2 27 1 Introduction 1 1 ECDS Environment Climate Data Sweden ECDS is a Swedish service facilitating the search publication and long term accessibility of data for research in the fields of environment and climate ECDS is hosted by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute SMHI 1 2 The ECDS Data portal The ECDS data portal gives environmental and climate researchers the possibilities to Describe the metadata of one or more datasets Search for datasets from other researchers The data portal is based on GeoNetwork opensource Ref 1 The GeoNetwork software includes a lot of functionality but may not be so easy to use for those who are unfamiliar with geodata portals or metadata Therefore the functionality has been reduced but can be included later on if there is a need from the research community see chapter 4 A dataset is an identifiable collection of data A dataset may be a smaller grouping of data which is physically located within a larger dataset Theoretically a dataset may be as small as a single feature within a larger dataset The purpose of this data portal is not to have such a small granularity You are free to select the granularity for your metadata We suggest you choose a granularity which makes your data easy to find for those who search for data With that in mind it is also import
14. ant to choose keywords describing your dataset carefully Look for good examples among datasets already registered in the ECDS dataportal The standard ISO 19115 and the GeoNetwork software give the possibility to describe subsets of datasets or subsets of subsets of datasets in a hierarchy We have not exploited this possibility but it can be included later on 1 3 The ECDS Metadata profile The ECDS metadata profile is based on the international standard ISO 19115 Itis a rather new standard from 2003 and most of the newly developed geographical metadata profiles follow ISO 19115 We have also been influenced by the Swedish national geographical metadata profile which follows the European INSPIRE metadata profile INSPIRE follows ISO 19115 In the ECDS profile of ISO 19115 2003 version 2 1 we have included mandatory INSPIRE metadata elements This is a service for those researchers publishers who want to be INSPIRE compliant The user interface of the data portal has been separated into two different views one standard default and one with INSPIRE metadata elements included The purpose of INSPIRE compliance is to enable exchange of metadata with the Swedish Geodata Portal This means that the user should use the INSPIRE view if they Sida 3 27 have a dataset that 1s connected to one of the INSPIRE themes probably hosted by a Swedish authority or if they judge that it 1s interesting to the INSPIRE community For all oth
15. asterisk means that the metadata element is Mandatory Note that it is however possible to store metadata without every mandatory element It can be regarded as highly mandatory and the reviewer will probably require that all mandatory fields are filled in A red frame means EITHER that the metadata element is Mandatory and you have not written anything yet OR you have written something which 1s syntactically wrong e g a date is written in the wrong format A black frame means that the metadata element is correctly entered Text without a frame means that a value is fixed you can t change it The sign means that you can add another metadata element e g you can have several ISO topics To cancel if you don t want another metadata element click on the X and it will disappear Note Right now there is a bug in GeoNetwork If you add an element then cancel and delete it you cannot add an element again 2 2 Metadata elements Below is a list of the metadata elements We have chosen to use other names than the official ISO19115 names Ref 2 shows a cross reference table to the corresponding ISO19115 elements Title The title of the dataset which is described by the metadata A short text describing What Where When might give a good title Example Automatic Weather Station Data from Vestfonna Ice Cap during 2009 Title is mandatory Example Tie Weather Station from Vestfonna Ice Cap during 2009
16. ble and expandable system The system is intended as a versatile long term storage system and is available for the Swedish research community ECDS has a storage area at SweStore where we can offer storage for datasets from users See also http snicdocs nsc liu se wiki S weStore 1 6 News in the ECDS Data portal 1 6 1 Version 2 1 2 2011 11 30 Easier to select several science keywords when publishing data An error when searching for Where and When has been corrected It is now possible for the owner of the metadata to delete metadata for a dataset The element description of graphics file is now visible The Check button from Geonetwork has been deleted the Check test was not easy to understand Some 3 implementation errors of the ISO 19115 standard have been corrected Possibility to send metadata information via social networks mail Facebook The User manual has been updated with some more clarifications 1 6 2 Version 2 1 3 2011 12 14 Two errors have been corrected Sometimes a published and reviewed dataset was not searchable Some extra text could occur in the GCMD Science Keywords list 1 6 3 Version 2 1 4 2012 03 01 Three errors have been corrected Ifa publisher changed metadata for a dataset the dataset was no longer searchable After a change in Polopoly the Publish view did not work An error in the Search function has been corrected The reason was that the number of datasets in the databas
17. cniption icebreaker Oden from 1 August to 9 September 2008 The expedition focused on processes relating to cloud formation in the summer Arctic and included observations of marine biology and chemistry atmospheric chemistry physical oceanography aerosol chemistry and physics and meteorology This file contains moment data from S band cloud precipitation radar on the Oden during ASCOS Version 1 contains netcdf files of the 2 minute moment data equivalent radar reflectivity Doppler vertical velocity Doppler spectral width for the vertically pointing radar beam Version 1 contains data from the drift portion of the cruise YD214 260 Aug 1 Sep 16 which includes the return portion of the cruise over the Norwegian Sea as well When the signal was below the minimum detectable signal for the radar the reflectivity data were assigned a flag of 99 99 and the velocity data were assigned a flag of 799 99 7 Contact information regarding the dataset Individual name Ola Persson Organisation name Not documented 4 Future functionality Additional functionality may be added in the future depending on the response from the research community Some of the candidates are Include other time reference systems besides the Gregorian calendar Vertical extent described by official and well known reference systems may be interesting for several research areas For some users which are a
18. e exceeded a limit Sida 5 27 1 6 4 Version 2 2 2012 11 02 We introduce an updated metadata profile ECDS profile of ISO 19115 2003 version 2 1 see Ref 2 Two new standard metadata elements have been included Dataset identifier gives the dataset a unique identifier Status of the dataset the user can see in which stage this dataset 1s Planned On going Completed In addition there is now a possibility to give several Revisions of the dataset Dataset which are published and public before this version was installed can be updated by the publisher with the new elements Five metadata elements have also been included to be used by those who want to be INSPIRE compliant Keywords from GEMET keyword list Keywords from Initiative Scale or distance between observations Data quality specifications Data area coverage Dataset which are published and public before this version was installed can not be updated by the publisher with the new INSPIRE elements Contact ECDS Helpdesk and we will help You You can use two different views one for standard version and one where INSPIRE metadata elements are included Some minor errors are corrected and we have for our administrators given a tool to discover dead links among the URLs given for each dataset and made some improvements for our Reviewers A better way to print metadata for a dataset is implemented 1 6 5 Version 2 2 2 2013 01 24 The porta
19. ed the system can send you the username If you know the username but have forgotten your password the system can give you the possibility to create a new password If you don t have a username then click on Register The following page then appears Sida 7 27 Title Given name Middle name Surname E mail address Organization authority Telephone Address Time amp Place Country Sweden Language English bd Time zone Europe Stoc kholm 1 accept and approve the agreement D Write the text in the image click on picture to get new text hie Mandatory elements are Given name Surname and E mail but we suggest you also include Organisation and Telephone The rather strange text at the bottom called a Captcha is used to ensure that the attempt to create a username is generated by a person When you have logged in you have the possibility to insert metadata for a new dataset or edit your existing metadata CDS Admin Select from the menu to the left Portal for publication of data Metadata New metadata Edit my metadata The following steps show you how to create metadata for a new dataset editing old metadata is quite similar Sida 8 27 On the first page you are required to state Template Group Metadata creation Some hints Template The metadata profile to use as a template when creating your metadata We o
20. eoclimate LEE E esed Keywords m Title GCMD Science keywords Revision Revision Date 2008 02 05 Revision type Revision ux o rc 2 sauces DECEM M CMM MMC RCM ICE MCCC MM MM ELE Here we have selected Atmosphere highest level Cryosphere gt Frozen ground Cryosphere Sea ice If you change your mind and do not want the key word Cryosphere Frozen Ground just click on this line still with CTRL key pressed it will be deleted and the light blue background will disappear Title is fixed GCMD Science keywords Revision date is fixed 2008 02 05 which was the date for our version of GCMD Science keywords We do not change version every time GCMD Science keywords make an update Revision type is fixed Revised Example 2 GEMET INSPIRE Spatial Data Themes m Descriptive keywords from thesauris E E MM ae rane rina M EE Keywords 3 3 INSPIRE E Addresses Administrative units zl Agricultural and aquaculture facilities m E Area management restriction regulation zones and reporting units E Atmospheric conditions Bio geographical regions Buildings E Cadastral parcels E Coordinate reference systems E Elevation E Energy resources zl Environmental monitoring facilities Geographical grid systems E Geographical names 77 Thesaurus name 7 7 7777 7 7 7 7
21. er datasets we recommend users to use the standard profile A user can update their metadata to be INSPIRE compliant if this 1s needed later on SMHI is the Swedish national repository for IPY data Swedish IPY metadata has been migrated from the IPY data portal to ECDS data portal This means that ECDS is also influenced by the IPY metadata profile The IPY metadata profile was built from the Global Change Master Directory GCMD Directory Interchange Format Metadata describe the dataset and geographical metadata includes information about What Where When Who How The ECDS metadata profile includes the following main groups What Dataset title Dataset identifier Dataset description Graphic illustration Keywords from a wide spread thesaurus GCMD Science keywords Keywords from GEMET thesaurus only INSPIRE Keywords from Initiative only INSPIRE Topic category code an ISO standard Where Geographic bounding box Scale or distance between observations only INSPIRE When Revision of the dataset Time period covered by the dataset Who to cite regarding the dataset Contact information regarding the dataset Contact information regarding the distribution of the dataset Contact information regarding the metadata Limitations regarding the use and access of the dataset Data format Web address to access the dataset Quality report Status of the dataset Data quality specifications
22. ional information regarding geographic temporal and vertical extent Above you find metadata elements describing Geographic extent Temporal extent There is an element in ISO19115 describing vertical extent We have not used this in our metadata profile but information about vertical extent can be described here You may use additional information when the extents above is not enough to describe the dataset E g Geographical extent Observations from the river of Donau Temporal extent Data is covering the Cenozoic era Vertical extent The measurements are made from a 10 m tower Additional information regarding geographic temporal and vertical extent is optional Example Additional information Observations from the river of Lule alv regarding geographic The measurements are made from a 10 m tower temporal and vertical extent Distributor This is the second of three required contact information entries and describes who to contact regarding distribution of the dataset Each Point of contact consists of Individual name Organisation Electronic mail address and Role Name surname and first name of the person to contact Organisations are more permanent than individuals so please insert the organisation name E mail to the organisation person to contact Several roles are allowed We suggest you only use Distributor Contact information regarding distribution is optional Example Ind
23. ividual name Helpdesk at World Data Centre Kiruna Organisation name World Data Centre Kiruna E mail helpdesk wdc kiruna se Role Distributor Distributor format Consists of Data format name e g Excel Shape GRIB Sida 19 27 Data format version e g 2003 Data format 1s optional You may include several formats Example 1 Distributor il lg cc MUR MN LR d M M CL CDD Baa Data format 20 version On line resource Information about on line resources from which the dataset or other information about the dataset can be obtained e g http climatdata se On line resource consists of URL web address Description a short description about the on line resource Note For users with small needs and limited resources there is the possibility to store data at ECDS This is at present done manually Please contact ECDS Helpdesk if you want to use this facility Your data will be stored on an ECDS directory at SweStore If you have a data portal for a certain area then it is more than a dataset and this should be noted that under the Description Start the sentence with Data portal e g for a data portal for data covering the cryosphere in northern Sweden then write Data portal for cryosphere data covering northern Sweden On line resource is optional Example Onbineresouroe 7 7 7 7 7 7777 7 000c000eellMeMeeme URL https wdc kiruna se da
24. l Example Dataset version 1 0 Dataset identifier Title above is not a unique identifier There are several organisations from which you may receive a unique identifier for your data set This may be useful when referring to your dataset in a publication Datasets can be moved but the unique identifier is permanent We recommend that the Digital Object Identifier DOI 1s used Example Dataset identifier DOI 10 1000 182 Note The DOI above is in fact the DOI for the DOI handbook Sida 11 27 Dataset identifier 1s optional Dataset citation This is the reference that is used if someone has used your dataset and it is cited in an article References may be provided in styles used by professional scientific journals The organisation DataCite deals with citation of datasets see http www datacite org Dataset citation is optional Example Dataset citation Karlsson K Measurements at Vestfonna Polar Observation Journal 2010 Dataset description Brief description of the dataset Note Description of the dataset not the project result You should use words that you think will be found by someone using the Free text search Dataset description is mandatory Example Data set description Automatic weather station data from the ablation zone estfonna ice cap including Air temperature Relative Observations are done each hour Status of the dataset Status is taken from a list with the follo
25. l was adapted to changes in the infrastructure new release of Red Hat new mail server new LDAP server No functional enhancements 1 6 6 Version 2 2 3 2013 05 28 A bug fix release A minor enhancement is that we now allow several data formats instead of only one 2 Publishing ECDS Data Portal and ECDS Storage share the same entrance after You have clicked the button Publish Sida 6 27 Publish metadata Store dataset re P CCDS portal for publication of data a Login Or register To insert metadata you need to login If you do not have an account yet follow Enter your username and password below to login the link below to register Username Register Opens in a new windaw Password i Login Forgot your user id or password For mare information about the ECDS Environment Climate Data Sweden visit www ecds se Select Publish metadata A username is required in order to publish metadata The following information is shown on the Publish page Y CCDS Portal for publication of data Login Or register To insert metadata you need to login If you do not have an account yet follow Enter your username and password below to login the link below to register Username n Register Opens in a new window Password Login Forgot your user id or password Fill in the username and password If you have forgotten your username userid but remember the mail address you us
26. lready defined in the user database the authentication may not work Until this bug is fixed we can create a user name for you manually Please contact our Helpdesk More information including templates and or examples may be useful regarding Sida 26 27 Dataset citation using practices from DataCite Creative Commons License Quality report Sida 27 27
27. nly have one template to start with The template is the official name of our metadata profile 15019115 2003 ECDS 2 0 But you may also create your own personal templates see information later on and then you may select this personal template Group The security group to create the metadata in We have only one group ECDS to start with Template 15019115 2003 ECDS 2 1 Group ECDS Back Create There is only one template to start with The template is the official name of our metadata profile ISO19115 2003 ECDS 2 1 An official description of this metadata profile is found in Ref 2 You may also create your own personal templates see below and then you can select this personal template There is only one group ECDS to start with After selecting template and group quite easy not so many choices click on Create to show the publishing page with all metadata elements The next thing to do is to select view You get the following text Select view for your metadata Standard default Extended for INSPIRE compatibility Views ECDS Standard ECDS INSPIRE Default is standard that is without the extra INSPIRE elements A majority of users will use the standard view If you want to start with the extended INSPIRE view or later want to change to the INSPIRE view then click on ECDS INSPIRE If you for some reason have selected the INSPIRE view but want to change to standard view this is possible Your INSP
28. rson to contact regarding questions about the dataset Each Point of contact consists of Individual name Organisation Electronic mail and Role Name surname and first name of the person to contact Organisations are more permanent than individuals so please insert the organisation name E mail to the organisation person to contact Several roles are allowed ResourceProvider Party that supplies the resource Custodian Party that ensures appropriate care and maintenance of the resource Owner Party that owns the resource User Party who uses the resource Distributor Party who distributes the resource Originator Party who created the resource PointOfContact Party who can be contacted for acquiring knowledge about or acquisition of the resource PrincipalInvestigator Key party responsible for gathering information and conducting research Processor Party who has processed the data in a manner such that the resource has been modified Publisher Party who published the resource Author Party who authored the resource We suggest you at least use pointOf Contact but it might also be interesting to show the principle investigator so you could add Principle investigator and thus have two points of contact regarding the dataset If you use Principle investigator the Organisation should be the Project name The reason to include the project name is that anyone can use the project name in the free text search to find the datasets from yo
29. ta vestfonna Description The website includes a database where your search riteria is parameter time and location Data quality information Provides overall information about the quality of the content in the dataset Quality report consists of Scope of the quality report Quality report ISO 19115 offers several choices for the scope We have used Dataset and it 1s fixed Quality report is a general text about the quality of the data such as which instruments have been used the process by which the data are created and the quality control of the data Data quality information is mandatory If it is not possible to write a quality report then write something like Not known or Not documented Example Sida 20 27 Data quality information i Scope of the quality Dataset report Quality report All instruments follows WMO standard and were calibrated each year Compliance to specification only valid within INSPIRE Describes whether the INSPIRE specification for your INSPIRE theme has been followed A problem here is that several specifications are not approved yet For more information about INSPIRE specifications see Ref 5 Ch 7 3 Compliance to specification is mandatory if you intend to follow INSPIRE s metadata profile Compliance to specification spgsoux EE MCCC CUM ee ea Title INSPIRE Data Specification on orthoimagery Guidelines Nu O a a M MEM CE IET CC ILC C a a
30. tor 50000 Suggestions 1 59 000 h Geographic bounding box Geographic position for the dataset The bounding box is expressed as North bound 90 90 East bound 180 180 South bound 90 90 West bound 189 180 Use the map to create the box or write the bounding latitudes longitudes use decimals not minutes and seconds You can move around and zoom in the map or use the roll bar to the right and select country region If a country region 1s selected a bounding box covering the country region 1s drawn on the map Geographical extent is mandatory Example a a km ma aa aaa a a a kl WGS 84 North bound sji 69 10919 traw rectangle Jgglear West bound East bound 16 90803 27 19123 South bound Temporal extent Time period of the content of the dataset The time reference system is fixed Gregorian Begin date and end date is expressed as Y YY Y MM DD or YYY Y MM or YYYY You may use the calendar function or write it directly Note 1 The calendar may not work in Internet Explorer a bug Note 2 What End date should be used when the data is continuously updated We suggest you write the present year at the start of each new year e g 2011 Temporal extent is mandatory Example Sida 18 27 r Ta aa ns rte E ccn cla CR cC ane Reference system Gregorian Begin date 2009 03 01 Fel clear End date 2009 11 30 Ei cear Addit
31. ur project Contact information regarding the dataset is mandatory Example Sida 13 27 Contact information regarding the dataset T Individual Will Smith E mail name Organisation Uppsala University name will smith mail com Role Point of contact Contact information regarding the dataset z Individual Will Smith E mail name Organisation IPY 999 gt Variability of Arctic Systems name will smith mail com Role Principal investigator v Graphic illustration Consists of Link to the graphic file Description of the graphic file Graphic format Provides a graphic which illustrates the dataset Could be a photo from the site or a graph showing a time series of the data or anything which you think illustrates the dataset Write the name of the file which contains the files It should be a public URL Include a text description of the graphic that illustrates the dataset Describe the format in which the illustration is encoded Examples JPG TIFF The graphic illustration is assumed to have an approximate size of 800x800 pixels Other sizes may give a distorted graph Graphic illustration is optional Note If you have a suitable picture e g in JPG then you can email it to ECDS for storage at the ECDS storage place on SweStore The link to the graphic file will be sent back to you and you can include it in your metadata This means you don t have the problem of tr
32. wing options Completed Production of the data has been completed a URL must exist indicating where data are available HistoricalArchive Data has been stored in an offline storage facility no URL but the Distributor can be contacted and may grant access to data Obsolete Data is no longer relevant OnGoing Data is continually being updated Planned A fixed date has been established by which time the data will be created Required Data needs to be generated or updated e g samples of any kinds which not have been digitised Under Development Data is currently in the process of being created not as precise as the term Planned This means that metadata for a dataset can be created very early in the process and given the status Planned or Required Example Status of the dataset Under development Sida 12 27 Contact information regarding the dataset This 1s the first of three required contact information entries The three contacts are regarding the dataset regarding distribution regarding metadata It may seem overambitious to have three different kinds of contacts but IS019115 clearly separates this kind of contact information However if you are the one and only contact person regardless of whether it is about the dataset distribution or metadata then we suggest that you create a personal template with you as the contact person for every kind of contact Contact information regarding the dataset is the pe
33. ying to find a permanent URL for your picture Example Graphic illustration Link to the graphic file http vestfonna site se picture Description of the graphic The tower where the instruments are located file Graphic format JPG Descriptive keywords from thesaurus Provides keywords We have three keywords GCMD Science keywords see Ref 3 GCMD Science keywords is a hierarchical keyword list which can be expanded by clicking on the GCMD Science Keywords is mandatory GEMET INSPIRE Spatial data themes only used within INSPIRE see Ref 4 GEMET INSPIRE Spatial data themes is mandatory if you intend to follow the INSPIRE metadata profile INSPIRE Initiative only used within INSPIRE see Ref 5 Ch 5 12 1 INSPIRE Initiative is mandatory if you intend to follow the rules from Geodatasamverkan Geodatasamverkan is the Swedish implementation of INSPIRE If you want to use several keywords then hold down CTRL and select several keywords The selected keywords have a light blue background Sida 14 27 Example 1 GCMD Science Keywords Descriptive keywords from thesauris B eni Nds tuasc udmestubsrtus ih cac C LEN Bc GcMD 4 5 Agriculture p H Atmosphere 8 _ Biological Classification 8 Biosphere Climate Indicators 4S Cryosphere H Frozen Ground 4 CJ Glaciers Ice Sheets Sea Ice a Snow lce g Human Dimensions C Land Surface 8 Oceans amp C Pal
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