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UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Use these guidelines to make your data FAIR in a step-wise approach. The currently available data formats are NetCDF, GeoTIFF, vector/Shapefile and CSV/Excel.
NetCDF | *.nc
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Following CF conventions (source): - Title: what's in the file
- History: Audit trail of processing operations
- Description of the data
- units: units can be udunits strings e.g. 1, degC, Pa, mbar, W m-2, kg/m2/s, mm day^-1
- standard_name: Use CF standard names
- long_name: not standardised
- ancillary variables: a pointer to variables providing metadata about the individual data values e.g. standard error or data quality information
- * _FillValue, missing_value, valid_max, valid_min, valid_range
- Dimensions establish the index space of data variables
- Time (year, month, day, hour, minute, second) is encoded with units “time unit since reference time”
*Optional for numeric data variables |
GeoTIFF | *.tif
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Embedded tags (tif tags): - Spatial extent
- Coordinate reference system
- Resolution
- No data value
- Layers
For more documentation, create a README file. |
Vector/shapefile | *.shp
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Use a *.shp.xml to store the metadata in XML format (such as ISO 19115 or other XML schema): |
CSV/Excel | *.csv *.xlsx
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Write in sheet/top lines of csv: - Title: what's in the file
- Abstract
- Measurement details
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