Metadata

All data around the analytical or measured 'real' data is called metadata. The mandatory metadata are 'Event label', its geographical position and the PI. Keep in mind, that in most cases, this will not be sufficent for a user of PANGAEA to understand the data. Provide any information available around a data set provided.

Pangaea should not be used for the management of comprehensive metadata only, e.g. as reference database or just listing campaigns/events of a project. In principle metadata are archived only, if the related data are available and archived in the relational system or the storage archive of Pangaea.

Metadata fields consist of those defining a sampling locality (event) and fields desribing the factual data for each data set (bold are mandatory fields). The size/composition of a data set depends on the definition of the granularity.


 * Authors of data set (if different from PI)
 * Data set title (phrase similar to the title of a publication)
 * Reference(s) (with URI i.a.)
 * PI for each data series (could be one for all, give full name with email)
 * Method for each data series (with url i.a.)
 * Comment for each data series
 * Comment for data set or pdf-file with further details or supplemental information
 * Abstract of data set(s) (in case of a data publication)
 * Keyword(s)
 * Quality flag for each data value