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Table 1 M2B3 Reporting Standard about an investigation effort

From: Marine microbial biodiversity, bioinformatics and biotechnology (M2B3) data reporting and service standards

 

Descriptor name

Description of usage

Control vocabulary/format/unit

Example

 

INVESTIGATION_ Campaign

Refers to a sampling activity that is either determined in time, repeated in time or continuous, e.g. a cruise, a mesocosm experiment, a time series, or live data streams

Free text

Micro B3-OSD2014

INVESTIGATION _Site

Refers to the unique identifier and name of the site/station where the sampling activity is performed.

Format: <Site ID from OSD Site Registry >, <Site name from OSD Site Registry>

OSD5, Poseidon-E1-M3A Time Series Station

INVESTIGATION _Platform

Refers to the specific unique stage from which the sampling device was deployed; includes the platform category and platform name.

Format: <Platform category from SDN:L06>,<Platform name>

research vessel, FILIA

INVESTIGATION _Authors

List of people who will appear in the citation of data publications. Please order the list according to authorship. The first author is the contact person.

Format: <LASTNAME>, <FirstName>, <Institution>, <email>

JONES, Peter, Institute1, pjones@institute1.eu; SMITH, Mary, Institute2, msmith@institute2.eu

INVESTIGATION _Project

Refers to the project that organised/funded the data/sample collection.

Free text

Micro B3

INVESTIGATION _Objective

Describes the scientific context/interest of the sampling activity. This information is useful to generate a short abstract as part of the data set citation.

Free text;

A short abstract

100-500 words

  1. Mandatory information is in bold and other fields are recommended OSD Sites Registry is a controlled register for OSD sampling Sites (http://mb3is.megx.net/osd-registry). SDN:L06::XX is a controlled terms list describing “CATEGORIES” of platforms (http://seadatanet.maris2.nl/v_bodc_vocab_v2/search.asp?lib=L06).