The Trackers

The tool builds three different trackers that provide a standardized way to supply supporting annotation (metadata) in conjunction with your shared data: an experiment tracker, a resource tracker, and a results tracker. Information on the purpose and general content of each tracker is in the table below.

Tracker	Purpose	Content
Experiment Tracker	Provides contextual information on the experiments involved in the project	Details each experiment, including research questions, approach, and hypotheses
Resource Tracker	Provides inventory and annotated information for all data and supporting files	List of data and non-data/supporting files, including description, path, and dependencies
Results Tracker	Provides detailed information on all results and their association with publications	List of each result, including type and description; there should be one results tracker per multi-result file

The Data Packaging tool will provide you with easy-to-understand forms that feed into these trackers. You will not need to complete them manually within the tracker. For more information on the fields within each tracker, please refer to the metadata schemas.