ess-dive-community/essdive-file-level-metadata

One FLMD file per data file or data package?

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Submitter: Kim Ely

I suggest the following changes:
It is unclear from the instructions whether a FLDM file is required per data file, or per package.

"Create file-level metadata for each data file using the template.
    a. Start new row for each data file"

One FLMD file per package, with a row for each data file makes sense to me. A separate FLMD file per data file would be onerous for data creators, and perhaps not useful for users.

My suggested correction would be to update the instructions to: "Create file-level metadata for each data package using the template."

@regnans Good catch. It should be per data package.
@robcrystalornelas Can you make the change that Kim points out?

@tvelliquette I can definitely make the changes. Thanks @regnans for catching this, and for making suggestions on how we can update the instructions.

Thanks to Kim's suggestion, text in the instructions file now indicates we only need one FLMD file per data package