Standards and conventions
License
| Standard | Description | Application |
|---|---|---|
| choosealicense.com | choose an Open Source software license | software license |
| Creative Commons | choose a data license | data license |
Metadata
| Standard | Description | Application |
|---|---|---|
| FAIR principles | general guidelines to make data and data management findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) | |
| Attribute Convention Data Discovery (ACDD) | ||
| CF Metadata Conventions | metadata conventions for NetCDF raster files, also applicable for other data cube formates like HDF5, Zarr or GeoTIFF | metadata standards, attribute naming |
| SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) | STAC specification for common language to describe geospatial information to make geospatial data FAIR | metadata standards |
Style guides
| Standard | Description | Application |
|---|---|---|
| PEP 8 | official style guide for Python code | style guide |
| Google Style Guides Wikipedia code naming convention | Python, R, JS, C, ... style guides for naming and styling of programming code and file names for different languages | style guide |
| Programming casing | overview of the different casing types (i.e., camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case, ...) | style guide |
Domain specific standards
Soil
| Standard | Description | Application |
|---|---|---|
| International soil standards | extensive list of international soil standards collected by ISRIC | metadata standard |