Intern:Expedition archiving

Preface
There are a variety of research vessels operating under the german flag, the larger ones being: POLARSTERN, METEOR, SONNE, MARIA S MERIAN, POSEIDON, ALKOR and HEINCKE (see also [Research Vessels]. Due to the fact that every vessel is operated by a different institute, the assembling of cruise metadata (cruise reports, station lists) in one central database is a great challenge. PANGAEA® - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science therefore aims at creating a central archive for current and former cruise metadata. The resulting lists are publicly available and offer information on the date/time, area, chief scientist, etc. of the cruise, as well as links to the cruise report and station list.


 * updated list of the research vessel POLARSTERN: POLARSTERN


 * updated list of the research vessel SONNE: SONNE

Workflow
The curator responsible for assembling and archving the cruise metadata uses the PANGAEA issue tracker (http://issues.pangaea.de/secure/Dashboard.jspa, see also Ticket System). A curator log in is required to enter the respective project Expedition Archiving.

Overview of all projects in the PANGAEA issue tracker:

For every new expedition of the upper mentioned reasearch vessels, a ticket/issue has to be created, consisting of the central Expedition issue and several sub-issues such as the Report sub-issue and the Station list sub-issue.

Expedition issue

 * Click on + Create Issue
 * Choose Project: Expedition Archiving
 * Choose Issue Type: Expedition
 * Insert Summary in the form of "vessel campaign": e.g. Meteor M99 or Sonne SO229
 * Insert Expedition label (CAUTION - case sensitive!), e.g. M99, SO229 or PO450 - please be extra careful to insert the correct label, cross check with earlier expediton issues
 * Insert Platform label (CAUTION - case sensitive!), e.g. Meteor, Polarstern or Sonne - most labels already exist and should not have to be created! Be careful to start with a capital letter!
 * choose an Assignee
 * if necessary, change the Reporter
 * Click on Create

An example of a newly created expedition issue: