diff --git a/OSC/index.md b/OSC/index.md index 0faa08cf..4f051b5e 100644 --- a/OSC/index.md +++ b/OSC/index.md @@ -1,18 +1,17 @@ # Open Science Catalog -The [Open Science Catalog (OSC)](https://opensciencedata.esa.int/) is a key component of the ESA EO Open Science framework. It is a publicly available web-based application designed to provide easy access to scientific resources including geoscience products, workflows, experiments and documentation from activities and projects funded by ESA under the EO Programme. +The [Open Science Catalog (OSC)](https://opensciencedata.esa.int/) is a key component of the ESA EO Open Science framework. It is a publicly available web-based application designed to provide easy access to scientific resources including geoscience products, workflows, experiments and documentation from activities and projects funded by ESA under the EO Programme. +There are three different ways and several tools to contribute to Open Science Catalog: -There are three ways to add information to the OSC: - -### 1: Using a Visual GUI +### 1: Use a Visual GUI Interface (No coding required) - [Git Clerk](./git_clerk_example.md) - A guide for using the Git Clerk tool which is a user interface for automatically creating product entries and creating a Pull Request in the OSC GitHub Repo. -### 2: Manually opening a PR -- [Directly editing the json files](./osc_pr_manual.ipynb) - A guide for manually creating Product entries. Requires knowledge of git. +### 2: Manually contribution (For users familiar with Git) +- [Direct editing metadata in JSON](./osc_pr_manual.ipynb) - A guide for manually creating Open Science Catalog entries by creating JSON files with metadata. -- [Generating OSC files using pystac](./osc_pr_pystac.ipynb) - A guide for creating Product entries using pystac. Requires knowledge of git and Python. +- [Generating OSC files with pystac](./osc_pr_pystac.ipynb) - A guide for creating Open Science Catalog entries in more automated way by implementing `pystac`. Require familiarity with Python. -### 3: Using one of the platform tools +### 3: Using one of the platform tools (For EarthCODE integrated platforms users) - [DeepCode](https://github.com/deepesdl/deep-code) - An example using DeepCode: a library for automatically generating product entries for DeepESDL datasets.