Case Studies

The RDA Sample Type Classification WG will develop a recommendation for one or more vocabularies for global, cross-domain classification of material sample types. The vocabularies are intended to cover all types of samples being investigated in the sciences. But the scope will be limited to the top-level classification, the detailed description of the samples will be left to existing domain-specific vocabularies.

This repository shall be used to gather input from various scientific communities. We'd like to learn about the samples being dealt with in your work. Therefore we invite you to submit a case study.

How to contribute?

You may either submit your case study as a pull request for this repository right away or submit it by email.

Please note, in either way, by submitting your case study, you agree to publish it under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Submit your case study as a pull request

1. Fork this repository

2. Copy the template.md to a new document in the case-studies folder. Choose a sensible name that stands for your scientific community.

3. Replace in the new document xyz community by a suitable name for your community. Replace the template instructions in italics by corresponding text.

4. Add an entry referencing your new document to the index, e.g. the README.md in the case-studies folder.

5. Push to GitHub. Submit a pull request to merge your changes.

Fill out a form

1. Fill out the form for collecting contributions.

2. We will then translate your reply into a text according to the template and publish it in this GitHub repository on your behalf.

Submit your case study by email

1. Write your case study as a document based on template.md.

2. Send the document by email to Rolf Krahl rolf.krahl@helmholtz-berlin.de

3. We will then submit a pull request on your behalf.

Copyright and License

The copyright for the individual case studies remains with the respective authors. All content in this repository is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.