Climate data guidelines

Usage

Building the book

If you'd like to develop on and build the Climate Data Guidelines book, you should:

• Clone this repository and run
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt (it is recommended you do this within a virtual environment)
• (Recommended) Remove the existing Governance/_build/ directory You can do this with jupyter-book clean Governance/ jupyter-book clean Governance/ -all will also remove the cache
• Run jupyter-book build Governance/

A fully-rendered HTML version of the book will be built in Governance/_build/html/.

Hosting the book

The html version of the book is hosted on the gh-pages branch of this repo. A GitHub actions workflow has been created that automatically builds and pushes the book to this branch on a push or pull request to main.

If you wish to disable this automation, you may remove the GitHub actions workflow and build the book manually by:

• Navigating to your local build; and running,
• ghp-import -n -p -f Governance/_build/html

This will automatically push your build to the gh-pages branch. More information on this hosting process can be found here.

NB this should be now automated using github action defined in .github/workflows/deploy.yml Any commit to the main branch should trigger this action.

Structure

Currently the book is comprised of 7 parts

1. Guidelines to create a dataset
2. Guidelines to publish a dataset
3. Guidelines to update a dataset (new versions and errata)
4. Guidelines to retire a dataset
5. A section covering data management related concepts: conventions, controlled vocabularies, DMPs etc
6. A section covering technical aspects of data management: compression, chunking, interaction between metadata attributes and software, directory structure, filenames etc.
7. An appendix section for extra materials

Only the top level of Parts 5 and 6 will be shown in the main table of contents on the book sidebar. So a table of contents is available in the first page of the book to function as an index. The Guidelines (parts 1-4) will have refernce to the concepts and technical information where appropriate.

Contributors

We welcome and recognize all contributions. You can see a list of current contributors in the contributors tab.

Credits

This project is created using the excellent open source Jupyter Book project and the executablebooks/cookiecutter-jupyter-book template.