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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
- Naming
- 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
- Naming
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)
Organizations Tasks
General Tasks that may be completed:
- Removing any extraneous or duplicated data
- Where possible, moving and renaming items to fit the decided upon organization methodology