Thread: Draft metadata standards for MT data – Request for Comment

Under the SAGE
https://www.iris.edu/hq/news/story/nsf_makes_5_year_93m_award_to_iris_to_manage_the_sage_facility
award by the National Science Foundation, the Incorporated Research
Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) is establishing comprehensive support
at the PASSCAL Instrument Center https://www.passcal.nmt.edu/ for
Principal Investigators conducting field experiments using
magnetotelluric (MT) methods. As part of this process, IRIS has been
working with members of the MT science community to develop modern,
detailed, flexible standards for MT metadata. These standards will be
used in the archiving of datasets collected using PASSCAL MT facility
equipment as well as with MTH5, an exchangeable format that is under
development.

The initial draft of the metadata standards is posted for review:
https://github.com/kujaku11/MTarchive/blob/tables/docs/mt_metadata_guide.pdf

Specific feedback received by June 29 will be factored into the next
version. Suggestions or general comments can be made through GitHub
https://github.com/kujaku11/MTarchive/issues and/or sent directly to
Jared Peacock <jpeacock<at>usgs.gov>. Any general questions about the IRIS
MT program may be sent to Andy Frassetto.

Sincerely,

Andy, on behalf of the MT Data Handling and Software Working Group
https://www.iris.edu/hq/about_iris/governance/mt_soft

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Andy Frassetto, PhD, Seismologist
MT Program Manager
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology