Dataset Title

Date Type creation revision publication

Dataset Date format: YYYY-MM-DD Note: This generator doesn't check date format, but it won't validate later if it's anything other than YYYY-MM-DD.

Abstract
Information about the dataset. "What parameters were collected from where, by how, during when."

Purpose
Information about the study that the dataset was collected for. "Data were collected because why." An abstract from a paper might go here (edit to omit the parts about data that are not included in this dataset)

Lab Credit

Lab PI (Faculty Member) Contact Information

Name
Organization
Email
Phone
Address
City
State Zip

Student/Postdoc/Tech/Project Lead Contact Information
Leave blank if none.

Name
Organization
Email
Phone
Address
City
State Zip

Dataset Status
Completed
Historical Archive
Obsolete
Ongoing
Planned
Required
Under Development

Maintenance and Update Frequency

Annually As Needed Biannually Continual Daily Fortnightly

Irregular Monthly Not Planned Quarterly Unknown Weekly

Browse Graphic (e.g. study area map, experimental design diagram)
Leave blank if none.

Filename:
File type (jpg, gif, png, pdf, etc):
Description:
A caption that explains what the figure is about.

Theme Keywords
Separate keywords with commas.
temperature,salinity

Place Keywords
Separate keywords with commas.
Dauphin Island Sea Lab,DISL

Topic Category
Select all that apply (at least one).

Biota Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere Environment (conservation, pollution, etc.) Geoscientific Information Human Health Inland Waters Oceans

full list of options that can be edited into the XML later

Use Constraints
Edit in correct funding agencies.
Acknowledgment of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL), the FUNDING AGENCY, FUNDING AGENCY, and FUNDING AGENCY is required in products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users of these data. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area from other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection, QA/QC procedures, and computer processes over time. The distributor shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of these data, based on the description of appropriate/inappropriate uses described in the metadata document. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such.

Dataset Date Range
format: YYYY-MM-DD

Beginning Date:
Ending Date:

Geographic Range
Required. Must be in decimal degrees (or it won't validate later).

West Bounding Longitude:
East Bounding Longitude:
North Bounding Latitude:
South Bounding Latitude:

Cross References
Journal article related to the dataset. Leave blank if none.

Title:
Publication Date:
Author(s):
Journal:

issue identification: pages:
weblink:

Other Citation Details. Misc additional info about the citation can go here, such as why it's relevant to the dataset (if this isn't obvious).



This cross-reference is a: document image map model profile table video

and is: digital hardcopy

Book or report related to the dataset. Leave blank if none.

Title:
Publication Date:
Author(s):
Edition:
Publisher:
Name:
City:
State (or Admin area):
Country:
weblink:

Other Citation Details. Misc additional info about the citation can go here, such as why it's relevant to the dataset (if this isn't obvious).



This cross-reference is a: document image map model profile table video

and is: digital hardcopy

Where can the dataset be obtained, other than DISL?
List any project websites, national repositories like NOAA NODC Oceanographic Archive, NSF's BCO-DMO, GoMRI's GRIIDC, etc. Please put direct links to the page with the data or download button.

Website name:
Link:
Description:


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Link:
Description:


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Link:
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Website name:
Link:
Description:


Website name:
Link:
Description:

Data Quality and Methods
As needed: fill in either the top box, or the process step boxes, or both. (Delete template text from unneeded boxes.)

Overview of methods used to collect, process, analyze, organize, etc. the data. Info about any data gaps or data quality issues.

Process step 1
These methods were used to collect samples from the field.
Process step 2
These sensors with these settings were used to collect raw data in the field.
Process step 3
These methods were used to turn field data into processed data.
Process step 4
These methods were used to generate raw data in the lab.
Process step 5
These methods were used to process lab data into final products.

Feature Catalogue Citation
Use the same title, date, and feature type names as you did when you filled out the Feature Catalogue form for this dataset.

Feature Catalogue Title


Date Type creation revision publication

Date format: YYYY-MM-DD

Feature Types (FGDC Entities)
Items within Feature Catalogue that apply to this dataset. Must fill in at least one.

DS Aggregate Citation
If this dataset is part of a larger collection of datasets, fill in information about the collection here. Leave blank if none.

File Identifier for the parent:

The parent file is a separate metadata file that provides an overview of the whole collection of datasets. The suggested filename for this is: DISL-Faculty-StudentOrProject-000-date.

This is a:
Larger Work Citation
Part of a Seamless Database

The type of activity that produced the dataset was:


campaign collection exercise experiment investigation

mission operation platform process program

project sensor study task trial