Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data
format
File names should be descriptive and reflect the file content.
When planning your project, define what types of data will be produced and what format these data will take.
Tags: Carly Strasser, data model, data source, format, plan, Sharon Farb, Thorny Staples
Description of formats for date and time
How to describe the contents of a data file
One should be consistent in the types of data included in columns of spreadsheets or data tables.
Tags: database, describe, documentation, format, metadata
Keep descriptions and flags for data separate from values
Tags: annotation, describe, documentation, flag, format, metadata
Fields within a data file should be consistently separated by acceptable delimiters (e.g. commas).
