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This page contains some initial ideas about how to organize data within Clowder for this project. 

Organization Ideas

Naming Conventions

Some 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 Clowder

It 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
  • Data Measurements Example
    • 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
  • Documentation Example
    
    • Collection Name: Flux Tower Documentation
    • Collection Description: Documentation for the Flux Tower Sensor
    • Collection Content: This will contain any relevant documentation that describes the Sensor (types of measurements gathered, etc.)
      
      • Datasets would not be present in this collection
      • Files can be of any preferred format
• 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