Section 5 Chatper Overview

5.1 Data Management Standards

  1. All data will live at minimum in GitHub. Some may also live in Google Drive.

  2. Metadata. Metadata will be generated to describe all data in a .txt format and will be stored alongside the data for each survey. Metadata will describe contributors, site characteristics, survey conditions, naming conventions, collection methods and devices, and analyses performed.

  3. File naming convention is as follow: YYYYMMDD-method_siteID_number_initials_dataORmetadata For example: 20250520_TLS_MAG_01_NL_data, for data collected on 2025-05-04 using the terrestrial laser scanner at Magnolia forest collected by Nate Lund.

  4. Method, siteID, and other abbreviations can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nHBk83m_0PY4UzwMfL5g83DfsVSZLzf8P9dPE2k3AA8/edit?usp=drive_link

  5. General fieldwork notes can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b3QDru-bgyVkQo_66V_BuQWD8omKNW32Fzmk3-lEfxI/edit?usp=drive_link

5.2 Section template

  1. Data & Pictures

  2. Metadata

  3. SOPs & Methods for collection

  4. Analyses (and anlysis SOPs)