50890
Column Definitions
Entity
Published / External
26901
Cooperative Marine Turtle Tagging Program sea turtle tagging records on rehabilitated and released sea turtles from NOAA Galveston
Data Set
Completed
Meta Table which provides definitions for the columns in the data entities for this dataset
To define the columns of the data tables. Please use this information in conjunction with the descriptors provide for the columns as well as the abbreviations provided with the Galveston table
Data Table
Yes
Column Definitions
Meta Table which provides definitions for the columns in the data entities for this data set
20
Original Variable Name
Character
40
Yes
No
Active
The original variable name for which the data is supplied. This is the column name in the original_data.csv file
30
Revised Variable Name
Character
40
Yes
No
Active
This is the normalized corrected variable name for which the data is supplied. This is the column name in the data table renamed_data_table.csv file (if the data table is instead renamed_data_sheet.csv it will correspond to columns in that table.
40
Data Description
Character
150
Yes
No
Active
The descriptor/Column definition of the corresponding column
50
Data Type
Character
12
Yes
No
Active
Indicates the data type (generally character or numeric ) of the corresponding data column
Character
Number
60
Data Length
Numeric
4
Yes
No
0
Active
The length of the corresponding field in question
70
Number of Decimal Places
Numeric
2
No
No
Active
Indicates the number of data places (for a numeric column) of the corresponding column in question. This will be blank if the corresponding column in question
I
100
Required?
Character
7
Yes
No
Active
Indicates If it is required that this column be populated in the corresponding data table
Yes
No
Data Steward
2017
Person
Higgins, Benjamin
ben.higgins@noaa.gov
4700 Avenue U
Galveston
TX
77551
409-766-3670
Contact by email preferred.
Distributor
2016-12
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
NCEI-MD
NOAA/NESDIS E/OC SSMC3, 4th Floor, 1351 East-West Highway
Silver Spring
MD
20910-3282
(301) 713-3277
Contact by email preferred.
Metadata Contact
2017
Person
Higgins, Benjamin
ben.higgins@noaa.gov
4700 Avenue U
Galveston
TX
77551
409-766-3670
Contact by email preferred.
Point of Contact
2017
Person
Baumer, Tim J
tim.baumer@noaa.gov
4700 Avenue U
Galveston
TX
77551
409-766-3784
Contact by email preferred.
2017
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0157625/3.3/data/0-data/Galveston_Turtle_Program/26901/CSV/Metadata_Table.csv
2016-12
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
Metadata_Table.csv
Meta data table table giving column definition
2016-12-14T10:52:00
csv (comma-separated values)
CSV - Comma Separated Values (Text)
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