Guide to the ESS-DIVE Community Space

This is a meta-repository for users of the ESS-DIVE community GitHub space.

The contents of this repository will help users become familiar with typical workflows involved in starting, maintaining, and contributing to repositories in this Community Space on GitHub.

Table of contents

• Chapter 1 - An brief introduction to GitHub
• Chapter 2 - Starting a new repository
• Chapter 3 - Developing a data reporting format on GitHub
• Chapter 4 - A checklist for your reporting format deliverables
• Chapter 5 - Submitting a data reporting format to ESS-DIVE

The purpose of the Community Space

ESS-DIVE started our GitHub Community Space to provide a location where the ESS-DIVE user community can upload documents, code, and tools related to the ESS-DIVE data repository.

We designed this meta-repository so that contributors to the Community Space can familiarize themselves with the process of contributing to an existing GitHub repository or starting their own. The chapters in this repository provide visitors with information on starting up a GitHub account or repository (Chapters 1 & 2) as well as developing and publishing data reporting formats with ESS-DIVE (Chapters 3 & 4).

How to contribute to this repository

The easiest way to contribute to this repository, or any chapter within the repository, is by submitting a GitHub issue. We have provided a set of issue templates on our GitHub Issues page which will help us track and respond to any suggestions.

We have based our issue templates on those used by the Darwin Core Biodiversity Standard:

Darwin Core maintenance group, Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) (2014). Darwin Core. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.592792

Copyright information

Copyright information about the Community Space will be updated soon

Funding and acknowledgements

ESS-DIVE is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Climate and Environmental Science Division, Data Management program under contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231.

ESS-DIVE uses resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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