Organization IdeasNaming ConventionsSome ideas for how to name items that are placed in Clowder: - When able, include the name of the Sensor in the title of Spaces, Collections, and Datasets
- Including the name of the sensor may make it is easier to search for items
Using the Sections Within ClowderIt would be good to have a general organization methodology moving forward. This section will contain various ideas for organization. Note: there are three basic sections within Clowder: - Spaces
- Collections
- Datasets
One idea for utilizing and organizing these sections: - Spaces
- Named after each Sensor or a general category (e.g.: How To Documentation, Images, etc.)
- Contains Collections
- Can have an image appear in the listing on Clowder
- Collections
- Naming
- Include the Sensor
- Include any grouping information (e.g.: date range, etc.)
- Contains Datasets
- Datasets
- Naming
- When possible, the name would include the name of the Sensor
- Some of these are auto-generated, and are therefore auto-named
- Contains raw data and parsed data
- Should be placed in Collections
This is an example illustrating this idea: - This is based upon the Flux Tower data (information about this dataset is available in this Wiki space at Flux Tower Data)
- Space
- There is only one of these for this Space
- Space Name: Flux Tower Data
- Space Description: Flux Tower located at [ location-description ]
- Space Image: Suggestion - provide an image of the site or the instrument or a logo (if available)
- Collection
- There can be several of these for this Space
- Collection Name: Flux Tower Data Files [ date-range ]
- The date-range could be years or months depending upon the size of the dataset
- Collection Description: Collection of Data Files for [ date-range ]
- Collection Content: This will contain all relevant Datasets for this collection
- Example A: date-range is a year
- If date-range is 2010
- Then Datasets would be all the Datasets that include 2010 data
- Example B: date-range is January 2010 to March 2010
- If date-range is January 2010 to March 2010
- Then Datasets would be all the Datasets that include 2010 data from January to March
- Datasets
- There can be several of these for each Collection in the Space
- Dataset Name: Flux Tower Dataset [ information ]
- Some of these are auto-generated and may have a different naming convention
- The information would just describe the general content of the Dataset (type of measurement, type of data, etc.)
- Dataset Content: This will contain any relevant files
Organizations TasksGeneral Tasks that may be completed: - Removing any extraneous or duplicated data
- Where possible, moving and renaming items to fit the decided upon organization methodology
- Adding documentation about the decided upon organization methodology
- Make some example changes in Clowder that reflect the ideas presented herein
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