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This DATSETNAMEreadme.txt file was generated on YYYYMMDD by NAME

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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Title of Dataset:

Author Information (Name, Institution, Address, Email)

	Principal Investigator:
	Associate or Co-investigator:
	Alternate Contact(s):

Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date): <suggested format YYYYMMDD>

Geographic location of data collection: <City, State, County, Country and/or GPS Coordinates or bounding boxes>

Information about funding sources or sponsorship that supported the collection of the data:


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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse:

Recommended citation for the data:

Citation for and links to publications that cite or use the data:

Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data:

Links/relationships to ancillary or related data sets:


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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File list (filenames, directory structure (for zipped files) and brief description of all data files):

Relationship between files, if important for context:

Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package:

If data was derived from another source, list source:

If there are there multiple versions of the dataset, list the file updated, when and why update was made:


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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: <Include links or references to publications or other documentation containing experimental design or protocols used in data collection>

Methods for processing the data: <describe how the submitted data were generated from the raw or collected data>

Software- or Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data, including software and hardware version numbers:

Standards and calibration information, if appropriate:

Environmental/experimental conditions:

Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data:

People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission:


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DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION <Create sections for each datafile or set, as appropriate>
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Number of variables:

Number of cases/rows:

Variable list, defining any abbreviations, units of measure, codes or symbols used:

Missing data codes:

Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: