Overview

The Data Submission and Brokerage Service supports individual researchers and other data collectors with archiving and publishing their data. In the course of archival at one of the associated data centers all data is being quality checked and curated according to domain specific metadata standards together with the data submitter. To facilitate this process, Data templates were prepared that indicate required consensus elements for the different data types.

Collection Data

The collection data centers use the ABCD standard. Among the GFBio Data centers a set of required consensus elements was agreed upon (see also ABCD consensus elements for data publication)

Molecular Data

Molecular data is published in ENA – European Nucleotide Archive, following the MIxS standard. Further information of the required and recommended elements is being collected and regularly updated in the  documentation and the molecular data template.

Environmental Data

Environmental data is archived and published in PANGAEA – Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science. The template includes required data elements for the data submission and a selection of metadata parameters. The parameters will be extended depending on your type of data. See also the best practise manuals and other templates in the PANGAEA wiki.