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The chart below details the responsible party for assigning registering a PID to for, and inserting the PID in, a metadata record.
If your data and metadata are submitted to…. | …the repository/data system will generate your metadata identifier and insert it in your final metadata record | …YOU will need to generate your metadata PID and insert it appropriately in your metadata record prior to sending it to your repository/data system |
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ScienceBase (through the SB Data Release process) | X | |
Alaska Science Center Repository | X | |
Coastal & Marine Geoscience Data System | X | |
Water NSDI Node | X | |
EROS | X - for data released in Earth Explorer* | X - for all other EROS data releases* |
National Geospatial Program / The National Map | X | |
Approved non-USGS repository (metadata must be submitted by you to the Individual Metadata Upload (IMU) Tool) | X |
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