January 2023 Dryland Data Survey - Enterprise Survey Software

Dryland Critical Zone Data Survey January 2023

Dear Participant,

This is a short questionnaire about your project designed to fascillitate data management efforts. In preparation to complete this survey, please note the following:

You will be asked to provide, or update, your contact information, project title, abstract, list of expected data sets, and metadata. Additionally, there is a question about whether or not you've uploaded working/provisional datasets on the Microsoft Teams/SharePoint DATA channel, and to provide the link(s) to those locations. There is a place you can upload files embedded in this survey. Also, you will be asked for your GIS layers: points, lines, polygons, and rasters for your research samples, sites, transects etc.

Here are some basic metadata elements to include with your datasets and GIS layers:

Minimum Metadata for Datasets:

date generated
methods used
equipment used
spreadsheet column descriptions
units

Minimum Metadata for GIS Layers:

GPS unit used
coordinate system
date generated
site/sample/transect name

IF APPLICABLE

any processing you have done to the layer/data
link(s) to input data layer(s) original source

Thank-You! I will schedule a brief follow-up meeting (less than 15 min) with each researcher to make sure I understand your datasets, where you are in your project's timeline, and how I can help with your data management needs/wants.

Best,

Sue