We've prepared some first questions to get a impression on the work to do for extending the data model. By going through the questions, you might understand where we are coming from and where this leads to. If you think this is what you want you should answer the question and send to the Lithosurfer Support Team or your Lithosurfer Community Management (e.g. AGN). We will get back in contact to set up a first meeting to clarify more specific questions.
(In case you have different kinds of data you should answer the questions for each of them.)
What kind of data shall be managed by Lithosurfer? (e.g. SHRIMP, Fission Track, Mineral Deposit, …)
Is it legacy or newly generated data?
What sources is the data coming from? (machines, proprietary files, excel, access, apis, pdf, paper,...)?
Current data flow
Where is the data coming from?
Where is it going to?
How is it used?
Number of Datapoints
hundreds, thousands, hundred of thousands, millions, billions ?
one time, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly?
Datamodel
Is the current Datamodel available? In what form? (formal schema (e.g. sql, xsd), implizit, specification, ...)
What is the approx. number of tables?
What is the approx. number of fields?
Is there binary data that needs to be stored? (number and size of e.g. images)
Are there example dataset(s) available?
How many users need an account? (for uploading, reviewing, analysing)
Do you want to upload only public data or do you want to keep it confidential?
What is the desired project start date?
What is the approx. number of involved persons?
Please give a short freetext description (background, goals, etc.)
Name of Institution
Kind of Institution (Private Company, University, Lab, …)
Country
Website
Contact person
Contact persons for further questions (name, role, comment)