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Using standards for your permafrost data when sharing or publishing it is one of the ways to make your data more discoverable and reusable by others. Participants at the 2020 Permafrost Data Workshop<\/a> identified access to standardized data and the discoverability of existing data as two of their main data-related challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This page describes NSERC PermafrostNet’s recommendations for sharing and publishing permafrost data. Here we focus on ground temperature data and geotechnical measurements. These recommendations will promote data interoperability within the network and the broader community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PermafrostNet has started to develop a python package<\/a> to support file interoperability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributions are welcome and we invite other researchers and initiatives to build on and contribute to the tools and practices we have. For more information, email us<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describing permafrost datasets with CF Standard Names<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The CF Standard names are a list of terms used to unambiguously identify the kinds of measurements in a dataset. Nick Brown and Michel Paquette (NSERC PermafrostNet) have coordinated the inclusion of 12 additional permafrost-related terms (see table below) in the latest release of the Standard Names vocabulary (version 78<\/a>). These terms will be particularly useful for field scientists wanting to make their published datasets more interoperable and for data publishers who host permafrost-related data. An additional 14 terms<\/a> relevant to permafrost science have since been requested. The addition of permafrost-related terms contributes to improved data interoperability with the atmospheric science and modelling communities, where the CF terms are widely used. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For self-describing formats like netcdf, you can include these attributes directly in your data file, following the CF standards. If you are publishing your data in a text file, like a CSV, you should include metadata (like the standard_name) about each column in your dataset in a separate metadata file. This information should also include the units and anything else that someone else might need to re-use your data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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