Data Standards

The purpose of this documentation is to describe Natural State’s core data standard policies. These policies are designed to ensure that data is stored in a consistent and accessible manner. This is important for the following reasons:

  1. To ensure that data is easily accessible to all members of the Natural State team
  2. To ensure that data is easily accessible to external collaborators
  3. To ensure that data is easily accessible to the public (where necessary)
  4. To ensure that data is stored in a consistent manner so that it can be easily processed and analysed

Data Storage

  1. Raw sensor data are to be stored on Microsoft Azure following the ingress guidelines.
  2. Curated metadata (Excel files, CSV files, word documents) are to be stored on Teams in the appropriate channel that relates to the data.
  3. All data should conform to the data-tier structure: Work-stream, Project, Area, Survey, Grid (if applicable at this scale).

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