Contribute

Here's how you can contribute to ESS-DIVE's proposed sample ID and metadata reporting format:

• Want to make a change to the reporting format? Copy and paste one of the issue templates below and submit a new issue.

• Have a question? Contact us at [e-mail].

Citation

These issue templates were modeled from that provided by Darwin Core:

Darwin Core maintenance group, Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) (2014). Darwin Core. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.592792

Issue templates

New term

Copy and paste this template into your new issue if you want to create a term that does not exist yet.

## New term

* Submitter:
* Justification (why is this term necessary?):

Proposed definition of the new term:

* Term name (in lowerCamelCase):
* Definition of the term:
* Format of the term: 
* Additional Instructions (recommendations regarding content, etc.):
* Examples: 
* Refines (name of the broader term this term refines, if applicable):
* Replaces (name of the existing term that would be replaced by this term, if applicable):

Change term

Copy and paste this template into your new issue if you want to make a change to a term.

## Change term

* Term to change:
* Submitter:
* Justification (why is this change necessary?):

I suggest the following changes (leave blank whatever would not change):

* Term name (in lowerCamelCase):
* Definition of the term:
* Format of the term: 
* Additional Instructions (recommendations regarding content, etc.):
* Examples: 
* Refines (name of the broader term this term refines, if applicable):
* Replaces (name of the existing term that would be replaced by this term, if applicable):

Change documentation

Copy and paste this template into your new issue if you want to make a change to the documentation.

## Change documentation

* Documentation reference (URL):
* Submitter:
* Justification (why is this change necessary?):

I suggest the following changes: