Best Practices

This is a guide on the best practices on the LinkedEarth wiki. We encourage researchers to use it to help keep a consistent nomenclature among the various datasets. We expect this guide to be updated often as new datasets are added and needs arise, so please check this guide regularly.

Note

Wiki entries (other than text and numbers) essentially create a new page on the wiki. Therefore, it is important to give unique identifiers to these pages. This guide is meant to help in choosing appropriate name for describing the dataset.

Dataset Name

The naming convention for datasets is SiteName.FirstAuthor.PubYear. For instance, for this dataset, the SiteName is MD98-2181 (the name of the marine sediment core), the first author is Khider and the dataset was first published in 2014: MD982181.Khider.2014 as show on Figure 1.

Figure 1: The DatasetName at the top of a DatasetPage on the LinkedEarth wiki.

If uploading from a LiPD file, the dataset name should be automatically filled out for you.

Following this convention from the start is important since many of the pages are named after the DatasetName.

Publication

Publications are identified on the wiki using their DOI. For instance, the Anand et al. (2003) publication corresponds to the page Publication.10.1029/2002PA000846.