1  Document History and Revisions

Version	Date	Author	Description
1.0	May 1, 2025	Julianne Wilder	Document Created
1.1	June 10, 2025	Jeffrey Walker	Updated “Data Table Template Instructions” to clarify that filenames and folder structure must match “templates” sub-directory.
1.2	August 26, 2025	Jeffrey Walker	Renamed the organization_code to deployment_organization_code in the analyses and detections tables to clarify that this field refers to the organization that owns the deployment. Also added analysis_organization_code to the detections table. Both tables now include both the deployment_organization_code (organization that the deployment and recording(s) belong to), and analysis_organization_code (organization that the analysis belongs to). Added track_uri to tracks table for linking tracks to external files in cloud storage (useful for linking track metadata to high resolution data not stored in makara) Fixed minor typos
1.3	October 7, 2025	Jeffrey Walker	Clarified that deployments, recordings, analyses and detections are the primary data tables, but not always required for each submission Added Sensor Datasets and Sensor Values templates Added deployment_realtime and deployment_url fields Updated JSON guidelines and examples Set default value for recording_n_channels to 1 Fixed analysis_processing_types to have values of POST_PROCESSEDandREAL_TIME(underscores instead of dashes) Clarified descriptions of analysis_release_data and analysis_release_pacm