SOP #19: Post-season Data Quality Review Certification. Version 1.02. Pacific Island Network Water Quality Monitoring Protocol. Unpublished National Park Service Report, Pacific Island Inventory and Monitoring Network, Hawaii National Park, Hawaii.
Kozar K . 2024. SOP #19: Post-season Data Quality Review Certification. Version 1.02. Pacific Island Network Water Quality Monitoring Protocol. Unpublished National Park Service Report, Pacific Island Inventory and Monitoring Network, Hawaii National Park, Hawaii.. National Park Service
This SOP document describes the procedures for validation and certification of data in the working project database for the Pacific Island Network (PACN) Water Quality Monitoring Protocol. Refer also to Chapter 4: Overview of Database Design, Data Quality Review, and Data Certification and Delivery sections for related guidance and a clarification of the distinction between the working database and the master database. After the season’s field data have been entered and processed, they need to be reviewed and certified by the PACN Aquatic Ecologist for quality, completeness, and logical consistency. Data validation is the process of checking data for completeness, structural integrity, and logical consistency. Once the data have been through the validation process and metadata have been developed for them, they are to be certified by completing the PACN Project Data Certification Form, available in Appendix SOP 23.b in SOP #23 Product Delivery Specifications, or from the PACN Data Manager. The completed form, certified data, and updated metadata may then be delivered to the PACN Data Manager according to the timeline in SOP #23 Product Delivery Specifications.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Kozar, Kelly
- Date of Issue
- 2024-06-10
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ALKA , AMME , HALE , KAHO , KALA , NPSA , PACN , PUHE , PUHO , WAPA
- Keywords
- Data Certification, Data Management, Database, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Water Quality