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
metadata
Define a data dictionary early in the project to efficiently describe and document your data.
Data files and data descriptions should be well-organized, managed, and documented to ensure that files can be located and their contents are understandable.
How to describe the contents of a data file
Complete taxonomic information for each species should be included in data descriptions
Tags: describe, metadata, standards, taxonomy, terminology
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
Understand the geospatial parameters (resolution, reprojection, datum, scale) of spatially-referenced data when integrating geospatial datasets from multiple sources.
