For a browser-friendly readme, check out the DRR Template Website hosted on github

Purpose and Scope of Data Release Reports

This is a template is for use when drafting Data Release Reports. DRRs are created by the National Park Service and provide detailed descriptions of valuable research datasets, including the methods used to collect the data and technical analyses supporting the quality of the measurements. Data Release Reports focus on helping others reuse data rather than presenting results, testing hypotheses, or presenting new interpretations and in-depth analyses.

This template contains an rmarkdown template file, default folder structure for project files, and all the necessary template files to generate an unformatted .docx file. The file will be ingested by EXstyles, converted to an .xml file and fully formatted according to NPS branding upon final publication. The goal of this process is to relieve data producers, managers, and scientists from the burden of formatting and allow them to focus primarily on content. The content should document the collection, processing, quality control, of NPS data packages and evaluate their of utility.

This template is under active development to improve style and 508 compliance.

New projects can be established using this template by downloading a zip file of the template and associated files and folders from: This Link

1. How to Use this Template line-by-line instructions and descriptions for how to use the DRR Template.

2. The DRR_Template the file you make changes to to generate a DRR. Note: this is not a stand-alone file. To create a DRR please download the zipped template with all associated files and folders.

3. DRR_Report an example of the .docx output file that takes into account your edits and changes to DRR_to_docx.Rmd (assuming you have saved and/or knit the .Rmd)

More will be provided as they are published. The following examples are post-formatting and should be used as examples for content generation only.

1. DRR for tabular (csv) datasets of hydrologic data used for calculating hydrologic metrics as a part of the national Environmental Settings monitoring protocol.

2. DRR for geospatial (file geodatabase) data continuing custom areas of analysis used for Environmental Settings monitoring protocol. Report created in Microsoft Word and ported to the template.

(coming soon)