This is a template project to for use when drafting a data release report. Data Release Reports (DRRs) are created by the National Park Service and provide detailed descriptions of valuable research datasets, including the methods used to collect the data and technical analyses supporting the quality of the measurements. Data Release Reports focus on helping others reuse data, rather than presenting results, testing hypotheses, or presenting new interpretations, methods or in-depth analyses.
This template is modeled after the Nature Science Data electronic journal (https://www.nature.com/sdata/), and contains an rmarkdown template file, default folder structure for project files, and all necessary template files to generate a standard NPS-branded html report that documents the collection, processing, quality control, and evaluation of utility.
This template is under active development to improve style and 508 compliance.
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Examples (more will be provided as they are publilshed):
a) DRR for tabular (csv) datasets of hydrologic data used for calculating hydrologic metrics as a part of the national Environmental Settings monitoring protocol.
b) DRR for geospatial (file geodatabase) data contining custom areas of analysis used for Environmental Settings montioring protocol. Report created in microsoft word and ported to the template.
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Tips, FAQs, and Errata (coming soon)
New projects can be established using this template by downloading a zip file of the package from This Link