Improving metadata creation for datasets and inPort

[eeholmes]

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SMART GOAL: Come up with some specific, doable (i.e. small), things we can do to improve metadata creation, esp in regards to inPort. Could be documentation, write-up of how different groups are approaching metadata creation, scripts, packages, interviews with people who might help us (NCEI, inPort).

Eli, Craig, Alice, Molly, Kourtney, Marylou, Dawn, Lynn, Carissa, Ana

Craig

• cataloging data sets
• importing schemas into GitHub
• table definitions
• import out of date
• tech solutions assign owners to every data
• create GitHub Action to generate xml

Eli

• yaml for

Alice

• archiving of water column data NCEI
• not going into inPort
• Tbs to NCEI on harddrive. Cruise pack
• metadata is a copy of what is created in R

Molly
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[Kourtney-Burger]

Sharing my inPort experience and data archive goals

• currently archiving passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) metadata to multiple sources and would like to combine efforts where applicable (archive to NCEI, inPort, and 2 PAM specific archives PACM and Tethys)
• recently learned about inPort and met with SWFSC inPort librarian who shared some training videos with me
• I'm currently automating things where I can but I still have a data archive repo for every source (NCEI has great tools for PAM data like PACE and Passive Packer)

I've spoke with some other PAM teams from other centers and I think we are all in the same place with inPort so it would be great to develop something with this group that I can share with my larger PAM team (and any other data type)!