Parent

A parent set is a technical aggregation of two or more data sets.

If several data sets should be combined for a certain reason, e.g. to be made citable through a single citation, those child sets are aggregated in a parent set. This is just a technical process as a prerequisite to give several data sets ONE citation and DOI. The DOI of the childs remain as a technical DOI, the DOI of the parent set may become a citation DOI as part of the official data publication.

On the web a parent set is presented with its list of childs, also providing the opportunity to download all childs in one zip-archive.
 * A parent set can not contain data sets with static URL.
 * Child sets can not belong to more than one parent set.
 * The definition of a parent is NOT required if just one data set belongs to the publication/data citation.

Case 1: The supplement to a publication consists of more than one set; in this case all data sets related to the reference of the publication are grouped in a parent set. The parent set is also related to the reference and has the status supplementary data
 * Example of a parent set as Supplement including 9 childs:

Case 2: A number of data sets are defined by the PI as a citable entity (e.g. could be all meteorological observations of one expedition). The data sets are grouped into a parent, an extended abstract is added, the parent proof read by the authors. After completion the parent is published by setting the status published & citable.
 * Example of a parent set including 10 unpublished child sets:

A parent set is technicaly aggregated by a curator in the following steps:
 * select the childs which should be grouped to a parent
 * select all entries in the list
 * click on 
 * some fields will be filled with entries depending on the related sets
 * modify metadata as appropriate, e.g. add technical comments related to all data
 * add a short but significant title describing the content of the parent
 * add an export file name (for supplements: author-etal_year)
 * add abstract for supplements (copy from the paper) or data publications (extended abstract)
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 * Parent will be available in a minute; the list of childs will be shown after ~35 minutes, when PangaVista is updated (at XX:15 and XX:45).
 * always check validity in web view
 * always ask author(s) for review

! Any official data publication of PANGAEA must be submitted for final review to the data librarian !