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This process is used when a new organization comes on board as a provider of Earth Science metadata in the NASA Common Metadata Repository (CMR).

Step-by-step guide

  1. Familiarize yourself with the CMR at  Common Metadata Repository Home
  2. Familiarize yourself with the CMR Unified Metadata Model for collections and granules at https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/science-system-description/eosdis-components/common-metadata-repository/unified-metadata-model-umm
  3. Gather and organize the administrative information for your provider and your data collections
    1. Ensure that the data center(s) that archive, distribute, originate, and process your earth science data collections are included in the controlled vocabulary of Data Center names in the GCMD Keyword Management System (KMS) at GCMD Keyword Access.  
      If your data center(s) are already included in the controlled vocabulary, review each data center short name, long name, and data center url for accuracy.   
      If your data center(s) are not included, or there are errors in the short name, long name, or data center url, submit a request to add or update your data center information, per the instructions at Keyword FAQ#HowDoISubmitaKeywordRequestorIssue
    2. Select a provider name.   
      Provider names should be short and descriptive of the data center and/or mission.  
      Providers with shared missions may want to establish a common convention for provider names.  For example, for 'Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE)' providers, consider using a naming convention such as 'LANCE<instrument>' (e.g., LANCEMODIS, LANCEAMSR2)
      Provider names may be related to the data center short name in the GCMD Keyword Management System
    3. Determine how many datasets (collections) you will have in the CMR, and gather the following information for each (you will be entering this information as collection metadata in the CMR):
      1. Short name
      2. Long name
      3. DOI (highly recommended)
      4. url of Landing page for collection information
      5. url(s) for distribution of data from the collection
      6. url(s) for services provided for data from the collection
      7. science keywords that apply to the collection (see GCMD Keyword Access)
      8. spatial coverage of the data in the collection
      9. temporal coverage of the data in the collection
      10. acquisition information about the data in the collection (platform, instrument)
    4. For each collection, determine whether the collection will be visible to guest users, registered users, or a restricted group of user (e.g., a science team)
    5. Determine who your CMR administrator will be.  This person will be responsible for working with the CMR OPS team to establish and maintain permissions, ordering configurations, and service configurations for your provider.
    6. Determine who will enter CMR metadata for your provider.   This person or persons will be responsible for creating collection level records in the CMR (using the Metadata Management Tool UI or the CMR Ingest API), and for ingesting granules into the CMR using the CMR Ingest API.
    7. Determine who your user support team will be.   This person or persons will be responsible for fielding end user questions about search and order of your data through CMR clients such as the Earthdata Search Client.
    8. Determine the native format of your collection and granule metadata records.
      1. ECHO
      2. DIF
      3. UMM-JSON
  4. Establish Earthdata Login accounts for your CMR administrator and your metadata management team.   A separate Earthdata Login account is required for each CMR environment you will use (SIT (optional), UAT, and PROD.   Go to the appropriate url below (one for each environment) to create your Earthdata Login accounts.
    1. https://sit.urs.earthdata.nasa.gov
    2. https://uat.urs.earthdata.nasa.gov
    3. https://urs.earthdata.nasa.gov
  5. Work with the CMR OPS team to establish your provider in the CMR.  The OPS team will:
    1. Create your provider in the CMR (in UAT and Production; optionally also in the SIT environment)
    2. Create an administrative group for your provider.   Members of the administrative group will be the person you have 
  6. Enter collection metadata in the CMR User Acceptance Test (UAT) environment.
  7. Enter granule metadata in the CMR UAT environment.
  8. Test search and order with the Earthdata Search Client in the UAT environment.
  9. Enter collection metadata in the CMR Production environment.
  10. Enter granule metadata in the CMR Production environment.
  11. Test search and order with the Earthdata Search Client in the Production environment.
  12. Create an Earthdata Status App account so that you can post outage and status messages from your provider on the Earthdata Search Client and MMT.

CMR Vocabulary and Acronyms

CMR

MMT

EDSC

UAT

UMM

UMM-C

UMM-G

UMM-Common

Collection

Granule

 

 

 

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