Method

PANGAEA works in compliance with international metadata standards. For this purpose, we link each event and individual parameter in the data tables with the corresponding method used to measure or calculate them. Methods are either instruments or procedures describing a specific method.

Syntax (since January 2023)
1. Instruments:  Instrument type, Manufacturer , Model name 

2. Other methods:  Method type according to reference et al. YYYY [further information 1, further information 2 etc.].

Further information with respect to methods must be indicated by one of the following separators: To facilitate curation flow, please provide the DOIs of the references used.
 * calculated after
 * corrected using standard xy
 * corrected according to
 * developed by
 * modified by
 * modified according to etc.

3. Combination of several devices/methods: use separator “;” to combine several methods
 * ; Other device/method
 * ; followed by
 * ; measured with e.g. a sensor attached to a CTD
 * ; coupled with
 * ; equipped with

Important syntax rules

 * 1) Record instrument models as they are written on the instrument label or, if not accessible, appear on the manufacturer’s webpage or manual.
 * 2) Record the manufacturers’ names as they are labelled on the instrument, i.e. if the company has been sold/renamed later on, don’t use the most recent name, but instead the name as on your instrument`s label at the time of purchase
 * 3) No abbreviations unless they come in parentheses within/after the spelled-out device type/method name. Example: Broad Energy Germanium (BEGe) Detector, Canberra

Examples

 * For instruments:
 * Conductivity meter, Mettler Toledo, SevenGo pro SG7
 * Isotope ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS), Thermo Scientific, Delta plus XP; coupled with Elemental Analyser, CE Instruments, NA 1110
 * Pyrgeometer, Kipp & Zonen, CGR4 [SN: 170262, WRMC No. 12026]
 * For methods:
 * 14C radioactive tracer incubation according to Zhuang et al. 2018

Annotation with external terminologies
In order to improve the semantic annotation of our metadata, we will gradually annotate more and more of our methods with external terminologies

Method list

 * Complete list of methods used in PANGAEA