Automatic Upload of Locations Reporting Format with NGT to ESS-DIVE Transfer

[emilyarobles]

The NGEE-Tropics archive has additional site information that isn't captured by the package level metadata on ESS-DIVE. The reporting format for location metadata can be used to preserve this information.

Proposed flow:

1. Dataset is approved and published on NGEE-Tropics
2. Dataset is transferred to ESS-DIVE
3. During transfer, an additional CSV file with location metadata is uploaded along with the original
4. If a dataset has multiple sites listed, a CSV file for each site will be uploaded
5. Final dataset on ESS-DIVE will have a locations CSV and the original zip file of NGEE-Tropics data

Location Reporting Format Template NGEE-Tropics Site/Plot Information NGEE-Tropics Site to Location Reporting Format Crosswalk

[vchendrix]

@emilyarobles I think I need a crosswalk of how you would like the NGEE Tropics sites to be mapped onto the locations reporting format?

Some questions that need to be answered:

• Are there any fields we can ignore? Should I stick to the required fields for now?
• How do we hancle multiple contacts? Why is is called Submission_Contact? is that the same thing as the the site contact or is it something else?

[vchendrix]

Change transfer of locations to happen during the metadata transfer.

[vchendrix]

@emilyarobles reminder to update note field format for locations.csv

[emilyarobles]

@vchendrix The notes section should have the following text, if the information is available for the site: "Site URL(s): [site_urls]; Location Map URL: [location_map_urls]; State Province: [state_province]"

[vchendrix]

@vchendrix The notes section should have the following text, if the information is available for the site: "Site URL(s): [site_urls]; Location Map URL: [location_map_urls]; State Province: [state_province]"

@emilyarobles How do you want the size information for plots formatted?

[vchendrix]

@emilyarobles for plot size how about

"Site URL(s): [site_urls]; Location Map URL: [location_map_urls]; State Province: [state_province]; Plot Size: [size]"

[vchendrix]

@emilyarobles on second though. I think the plot format for notes should be. There should be no need to repeat the site information since it will also be in the csv

"Plot Location KMZ URL: [location_kmz_urls]; Plot Size: [size]"

[emilyarobles]

@vchendrix Ah that's right - forgot about plots. The second option looks good, I agree that site info would be unnecessary