Guidelines for contributors
There are two main ways contribute to this portal:
- providing a review/update of an already existing record;
- proposing or adding new records;
This includes notifying us of erroneous or missing information in an existing record or providing extra information to improve the record.
If you spot any wrong or missing information in one of our records:
- First check if anyone else has already flagged the issue with us
- If not, let us know by creating an issue on our invenioClim repository.
- We will evaluate your submission and correct/add to record where applicable.
A different kind of contribution is providing additional documentation to add value to the record. Any document, notebook, figures, etc. which can add more information on the data, not elsewhere available in the listed record. In particular, we welcome datasets evaluations, as these are really valuable and need specialised knowledge. As for record corrections we will evaluate the new material and add it to the record if suitable.
To contribute new records to the portal you have two options: put in a request for the record to be added or joining the contributors group to add the record yourself.
You can ask us to add a dataset and/or services that we have not yet included in the portal by creating an issue on our invenioClim repository.
- open an issue
- add the label
Record requestso it's more visible - add as much detail you can to in the issue description about the resource, and links to any related documentation We will review your request and use the issue to ask updates and communication
If you are interested you can contribute one or more records to the portal directly yourself. To do so:
- contact paola.petrelli-at-utas.edu.au and ask to be added as a volunteer
- we will create an account for you and get in touch to explain the process
- check the detailed step by step guidance to add a new record
It is important for the records to be as detailed and consistent as possible. To achieve this and to keep a provenance of record changes, we have designed a submission workflow making use of the communities functionality.
All records need to be submitted for review to the ACDG community before publication. Anyone who wants to be a reviewer can ask to join this community. Details on how to do so are given in the Communities page.
Once a record has been submitted the community members can give feedback via comments and/or edit the record.
Once a record is accepted it is immediately published.
While the record will be listed under the community, all records will be publicly visible and available in the main portal listing, too.
The Adding a record step by step page gives detailed instructions on how fill in the record deposit form.
