Sub-Project of FWS Region or Program Project
When a project is a sub-project (aka child project) of a larger Service project, complete a project metadata record for the sub-project as in Project Records with the following additions. Products of a sub-project are handled as described in Product Records with no additional requirements.
Main/Points of Contact
Add the parent project region(s) or program(s) as a “collaborator”.
The region or program that is funding the sub-project or distinct product is the “administrator” in the sub-project funding metadata as described in Funding Tab.
Metadata/Metadata Contacts
The default publisher is USFWS. The lead region or program may be included as “publisher”, but this is not required. Collaborators do not need to be listed here either.
Associated
Associate the relevant projects, sub-projects, and products with each other in mdEditor as described in Associating Records (Project). Your ownership/edit access to the related items will determine how you enter the associations in mdEditor. Information below refers to the Associated tab.
When you have edit rights to Parent Project
If your sub-project falls underneath a project that you also manage or have edit rights, you can create the association by defining the association type and linking your records as normal (see Associating Records (Project)).
In the Associated tab, add the association type as one of the following and select the appropriate record to link:
- As parent project to sub-project relationship: “parentProject”/”subProject” or vice versa
- As parent project to product relationship: “parentProject”/“product”
- If neither is a parent of the other, as Part of the other project: “isPartOf”/“isPartOf”
When you do NOT have edit rights to Parent Project
If your sub-project falls underneath a project to which you do not have edit rights for its ScienceBase record or mdEditor file, the metadata records will need to be associated manually within mdEditor (or contact the metadata owner to request assistance with creating the association.)
To create the association manually, enter the association type as described above, enter the resource type, then copy and paste the title and ScienceBase Identifier for the associated item (see Figure 1).
If creating associations to other regional or program items that have s SA Science Catalog tag, then those items will show up in the Science Catalog, along with your sub-projects and products.
If your sub-project falls underneath a CASC project, refer to the next page: Sub-project of CASC Project.