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Dcer Logistics And Formats

 

This is a small space I carved out for our group to keep materials on-line. This will make it easy for us to distribute and share files and other resources. It will also provide a nice space to prototype some stuff, like “how to” instructions or documentation of the metadata requirements and upload format as they would appear on the web.

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How to Create a Dataset

I tried writing a tutorial on how to put together a dataset in the format documented below. However, I ended up producing a rough HTML prototype of an “upload wizard” that would guide a researcher through creating/uploading a dataset for the first time (and the next time, and the next time …).

Walk through it to get a feel for what a researcher would have to do to create/upload their data:

Metadata

Jan Erik consolidated our various ramblings on required metadata elements into this / Metadata Summary

Upload Format

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