Help:Best Practices

This page is intended to describe best practices while adding a new dataset entry to the Catalog. In case you think some information is missing, please indicate it on GitHub Ruisdael Data Catalog project.

Guidelines for all submissions

Naming

The first required field for submitting a new dataset is the name. This name is used to identify the new dataset within the Catalog environment. To name the dataset, please use the following convention: Institute Sensor/Campaign/Product/Model at Location.

 Institute Sensor/Campaign/Product/Model at Location

Examples:

• TU Delft optical disdrometer Parsivel² PAR001 at Cabauw
• KNMI DALES model outputs over Cabauw
• TU Delft CMTRACE Level 2 Wind field at Cabauw

Geographic coordinates

For datasets produced by stationary instruments (in-situ, remote sensing) and for single-column model outputs, the latitude and longitude coordinates should be entered with a precision of at least 4 digits.

For non-stationary in-situ and remote sensing observations, use the description field to indicate the measurement domain. For example, the coordinates from the starting and ending points could be mentioned.

Description for the different submission types

Use the description field to provide all import information from the new dataset. While writing the Description, try to indicate the data source, the content, and the goal of the data. Try to provide enough information to help users understand the dataset content without downloading the data. Below, you can find a non-exhaustive checklist for the different data types to be used as a starting point.

Checklist for in-situ datasets

• What is the instrument's name?
• What is the instrument's model?
• What is the instrument's Brand?
• What is the data resolution?
• What are the variables listed in the dataset?
• Where is it installed?
• What is it intended for?
• If non-stationary instrument: latitude, longitude, height from starting and ending point.

Checklist for campaigns and products datasets

• What was the campaign goal?

What are the instruments used? What is the duration? What are the variables? What is the data resolution? If it is a data product, how was it derived? If any external link to the data processing is available, it can also be listed here.

Checklist model output submission

What model was used? What model version was used, and where can it be found? What was the model configuration? What is the output resolution? Is the output from a single column? So, what are the latitude and longitude coordinates? Is the output from a spatial domain? So, what is the domain?

First ideas

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General Guidelines

• Latitude and longitude coordinates for in-situ and remote sensing datasets should be entered with a precision of at least 4 digits.
• Refrain from using Notes. Put important information directly in the description
• Naming convection for the title: Institute - Sensor - Location

Checklist for in-situ data

• dataset description should contain sensor type/brand
• dataset description should contain .. (if applicable)

Checklist for model data

• The description should explicitly mention the variables that are provided (e.g., temperature, wind speed, etc..)

Campaign data

How to enter campaign data?