[LTER-luq] minimal field lists for specific studies

[edacorreo@yahoo.com]

Sorry. I misunderstood a question from a scientist that was really asking about a list of essential fields to document a biological data set. In other words, he was asking about metadata and not data. 
I guess the word "metadata" is not really widely used and since he asked for a minimal list of fields for data files, I thought for some areas of  investigation there might be a minimal list of measurements investigator should do when conducting a specific experiment. I realized he was talking about metadata after we talked about it some more.

Thank you for telling me you did not understand my question...probably nobody did and I can clarify it to the rest of the group.

EDA
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From: "McDowell, Bill" <Bill.McDowell at unh.edu>
To: "Eda C. Melendez-Colom" <edacorreo at yahoo.com>
Subject: [LTER-luq] minimal field lists for specific studies
Date: Sat, May 30, 2015 6:58 AM


Sorry. Don't really understand the question. Bill

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On May 29, 2015, at 5:31 PM, Eda C. Melendez-Colom <edacorreo at yahoo.com<mailto:edacorreo at yahoo.com>> wrote:

Hi,

Do we  prepare lists of minimal amount and type of measurements to take depending on the field of study?

Maybe another way to put it is a list of minimal data fields in a table for specific data set types.

Thanks,

EDA

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