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Development of the Ocean Data and Information System (ODIS) architecture
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Linking Dataset Collections to EventSeries (TimeSeries data) #412

Open ashepherd opened 8 months ago

ashepherd commented 8 months ago

ref: #125

GOAL: Make it easy to discover dataset types within an EventSeries

PROBLEM: Some time series activities may more than 1 dataset of a certain type. Types may be primary productivity, bottle data, etc - any logical grouping arriving at some core set of required and/or optional observations. Depending on how the data publisher organizes these data, there could be more than 1 dataset (ex: change in methods, strategies that publish new datasets for each relevant period within the TS, etc.). In grouping these datasets together, a new linkage may be useful from the individual groups to the overarching EventSeries.

POSSIBLE PATHWAYS: @pbuttigieg suggested,

  1. the use of schema.org DataCatalog class to group multiple datasets of a shared type.
  2. a linkage between the EventSeries and the DataCatalog. (Is there a need for a new sub-class of DataCatalog)?