How to publish your data

1. Submit a ticket to the Data Curation team including information on the type and size of data you want to submit, whether or not you need a Digial Object Identifier (DOI) assigned to the data and if the data can be open or if it needs to be embargoed. A member of the data curation team will then send you a metadata record to complete or you can download the relevant sheet here: physical or chemical oceanographic metadata, biological metadata or Simple metadata (to be used for Parent records).

2. Complete the metadata record and upload your data to your home folder on the server (if you need help accessing the server please submit a ticket). For help with completing metadata, see the guidance document for describing biological data, or the guidance document for describing physical or chemical oceanographic data.

3. Submit the completed metadata record to the data curator and let them know that you have uploaded the data. A data curator will upload the data and metadata to MIMS and send you a link to the data, as well as the DOI if you requested one.