Add documentation/metadata for BioTime time series

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Forecasting Analysis Comparison for Ecological Time Series

https://weecology.github.io/MATSS-forecasting/

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Add documentation/metadata for BioTime time series #20

Closed ha0ye closed 5 years ago

ha0ye commented 5 years ago

taxon species-level if appropriate
sampling period (start and end times)
sampling frequency (annual, etc.)
geographical location (don't worry about preprocessing for now - keep in whatever form the original data records it as)
life history characteristics if they're readily available
- lifespan
- age at first reproduction
temperature and variation at location of sampling

related, weecology/MATSS#139

ha0ye commented 5 years ago

I have an update to the BioTime processing code that fills out more of the metadata, notably:

taxonomic info
description of the study
depth as a possible covariate
etc.

This doesn't have everything we need, similar to what @pennekampster reported for #18 and #19, but helps give us what is easily extracted first, and where to go next.

I'll be pushing this to the MATSS repo shortly.