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swimdrinkfish / opendata

Open data standard for automated exchange of recreational water quality data
https://www.recreationalwater.ca/
MIT License
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add water temperature objects #9

Open GabrielleParentDoliner opened 6 years ago

GabrielleParentDoliner commented 6 years ago

Recommend adding water temperature as a non-mandatory metadata in Sample Object Reference for version 1.1 of the standard.

As a best practice, monitors collect the temperature at each sample site. Important and useful piece of information.

Suggest the following temperature objects:

  1. Temperature (field type: numeric)
  2. temperatureUnit (field type : enum ; C for celsius; F for fahrenheit; K for Kelvin)
dylanneild commented 4 years ago

For now, I think this is out of scope. It may be incorporated into a future version but in the near-term plans for v1.1 seem to be coalescing around adding version codes and fixing bugs rather than full integration of the new data to be represented.