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Information to read before submitting data

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Last updated: 20 Apr 2022 by Anusuriya Devaraju (Unlicensed)
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This is a quick summary of important points for you to know before you begin your submission

Publication Scope

TERN preserves and publishes data related to Australian terrestrial ecosystems and environmental science including plot observations, data collected at ecological plots and flux towers, as well as environmental parameters derived from airborne or satellite sensors.

Examples are available at portal.tern.org.au. If you are not sure whether TERN is the right place to publish the type of data you have, contact us on esupport@tern.org.au for clarification.

The diagram below summarizes the data submission and publication via SHaRED:

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Licensing

TERN strongly recommends the use of the least restrictive licence possible, which provides attribution to the data creators. Hence, TERN uses the Creative Commons – Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) as a default data licence. For licensing guide, see https://www.tern.org.au/datalicence/

Terms and Conditions

Please refer to Terms of use on the use conditions of all TERN data, services and tools.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

When you lodge your submission, you can request that a DOI is created for your data set. TERN will lodge a DOI request through the Datacite. Users will be informed when DOI is successfully minted.

Note: We recommend data providers to mint DOIs only for completed datasets or data releases, not continuous datasets.

Responsible for the Data

Each data submission:

  • must have at least one person designated as an “Author”

  • may have multiple “Authors” and “Co-authors”

Point of Contact for the Data

  • must have a person or an organisation designated as the “Point of Contact” for inquiries about the data

For Person requirements:

  • you must supply the Given Name, Surname, email address and Organisation.

  • please supply the 16 digit ORCID, if available (orcid.org).

For Organisation requirements:

  • Organisation name

  • Campus/Sitename

  • Street name

  • City

  • State

  • Postal Code

  • Country and

  • Email address

Note: If you ask us to mint a DOI, the Author and Co-Author details must be submitted as creators of data for DOI request. Author and Co-Authors name will appear in the attribution statement.

Required Metadata Fields

Several metadata fields are required to facilitate data discovery. You can see these by logging in and checking each tab in SHaRED. For a quick overview of the list of the fields, see https://ternaus.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TDSAG/pages/2234187809

File formats recommended by TERN are available here.

Hosting data

Files up to 100 MB can be uploaded directly to TERN via the data submission process.

For larger datasets, please contact esupport@tern.org.au advising the content, naming convention, format and the size of the data files before completing your metadata record.

TERN may elect not to publish data hosted by third-parties providers, but we may be able to host the data for you.

 

Next: Create or edit metadata records in SHaRED

 

 

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