Getting Started

New to the protocol?

Start with the protocol website on Carbon To Sea. It covers the guidelines behind this schema, including controlled vocabularies and recommended column header names.

Creating a metadata file

Use the OAE Metadata Builder. It has a form for each part of the schema and exports a JSON file that validates against it. See Metadata Builder.

Working with metadata files

A metadata file is a JSON document with one project, its experiments and its datasets. The Metadata File Format page covers its structure, a complete example and how to validate a file. To work with files in code, use the JSON Schema or the Pydantic models.