How to Add Data

Please hand in your requests for data to be made available within FAIRiCUBE HUB by simply adding an issue in this repository; this will add your request to the queue. You need to provide the agreed slate of description elements so that data can be downloaded, understood, and the datacube can be created.

Make sure the description is correct and complete, otherwise iterations and misinterpretations can occur which lead to delays and extra effort on all sides.

If questions remain open (and this has turned out to be the regular case) a request clearing meeting will be held subsequently. Commonly, details can be clarified this way, or the data requestor gets asked to provide more technical details on the data. After successful data import the requestor will be contacted for verification, after which the git issue gets closed.

Coverage Naming Conventions

Ultimately, the catalog of the FAIRiCUBE hub will allow convenient search across data. For now, until this catalog becomes available, a pragmatic convention has been adopted: the coverage name is a combination of campaign year, reference year, inventory year and release version:

• [Mapping_Campaign][CLC_Reference_Year][Created_Inventory_Year]_[Version]

Stable version example with name CLC2006_CLC2000_V2018_20 means:

• CLC2006_ That the file came from the 2006 mapping campaign (the file content was last modified in this campaign)
• CLC2000 That the file captures Land Cover mapping results for 2000 reference year
• V2018 That this file comes from a delivery created in 2018 inventory year
• _20 That this is the final stable version

Beta-version example with name CLC2006_CLC2000_V2018_20b2 means:

• CLC2006_ That the file came from the 2006 mapping campaign (the file content was last modified in this campaign)
• CLC2000 That the file captures Land Cover mapping results for 2000 reference year
• V2018 That this file comes from a delivery created in 2018 inventory year
• _20b2 That this is the second beta-version

Metadata

In order to become visible to all, the new data set also needs to get its twin entry in the catalog at https://catalog.fairicube.eu. To this end, the catalog team needs to get contacted (best via mentioning them in the corresponding data upload issue). Note that the catalog typically will require additional descriptive metadata.

Here is an example of a metadata record compliant with the OGC coverage schema. Some more examples are currently not maintained and partly outdated.

From coverage side, a reference to the catalog can be added to the coverage metadata by using this schema.