Template Name

Optional text description

Metadata

name	Template data
science reference	Paper citation
science DOI	doi:
data DOI	doi:
data URL	https://
keywords	foo, bar

Create dataset

• Remove the following text, or replace with explanation of how datalad dataset is created
• Replace the bash block with python or other preferred language
• Keep the #+NAME: datalad-create name so that these blocks can be called via script

# datalad create -f -d . -c text2git -D "Template"
datalad create -f -d . -D "Cryo data template"

git remote add origin [email protected]:cryo-data/template.git

git add meta.json README.org
git commit -m "README & metadata"
git branch -M main
git push -u origin main

How to use this template

• Pick a name for the new dataset
  • Folder name should be “Author_YYYY” if possible, or some other common name for the dataset (e.g. ArcticDEM or MEaSUREs.0471)
  • In this example, we’ll use Mankoff_2020, and convert https://dataverse01.geus.dk/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.22008/promice/data/ice_discharge/d/v02 to a datalad dataset.
• Copy template to clean directory using the new dataset name

dest="Mankoff_2020"
git clone https://github.com/cryo-data/template.git ${dest}
cd ${dest}

• Set up a new repository, ideally under the cryo-data portal on GitHub, but can be hosted anywhere.
  • Set up by visiting https://github.com/organizations/cryo-data/repositories/new and do **not** initialize with any files, then:

git remote rm origin
git remote add origin [email protected]:cryo-data/${dest}.git
git branch -M main
git push -u origin main

• If the dataset already contains its own README.org, then keep that and rename this one to datalad.org

git mv README.org datalad.org
git commit datalad.org -m 'Rename README.org to datalad.org because dataset has README.org'

• Populate the datalad dataset

  NOTE

  The code below should go into the create data section above.

The code below downloads each file using datalad download-url. This is one of many ways to populate a dalatad dataset.

• TODO: Show examples for adding data that is accessible via an archive (Zenodo?) or data already in git.
• TODO: Provide small shell or Python script in template folder for traversing and downloading remote directory structure (e.g. wget -r ...).

export SERVER=https://dataverse01.geus.dk
export DOI=10.22008/promice/data/ice_discharge/d/v02

curl ${SERVER}/api/datasets/:persistentId?persistentId=doi:${DOI} > dv.json
cat dv.json | tr ',' '\n' | grep -E '"persistentId"' | cut -d'"' -f4 > urls.txt
while read -r PID; do
  datalad download-url $SERVER/api/access/datafile/:persistentId?persistentId=${PID}
done < urls.txt
rm dv.json urls.txt # cleanup

• Push changes

git push

• Remove this section from the ./README.org file.