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General remarks:

• Do not use special characters or symbols.
• All date/times must follow ISO8601 format (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ)

For tag/receiver metadata:

• Once a tag or receiver is uploaded, the metadata stays in the database and it does not need to be uploaded again if it is used for another project.
• The tag or receiver status must be uploaded as ‘available’ before linking it to an animal or deployment, respectively. The status becomes automatically ‘active’ when an animal/deployment is linked to the tag/receiver, respectively.

For animal metadata:

• ‘projectName’ must match exactly the name of the project in ETN.
• ‘tag’ must match exactly the tag full ID of the tag used for this particular animal. Tag full ID includes ‘tagSpaceCode’, hyphen and ‘idCode’ (e.g. A69-1601-56789).

For deployment metadata:

• Receiver field must be: model + hyphen + serial number (e.g. VR2W-12345).
• The deployments are linked to a receiver. All the receivers must be in the database before uploading the deployments.
• Before uploading detection data, ‘recoverDateTime’ must be empty. When a deployment contains a recovery date, the system does not allow to upload detections for this receiver.
• When the data for a deployment are successfully uploaded, the deployment is automatically closed (i.e. a recoveryDate is added) and a new deployment is created with the starting date matching the recovery date of the previous deployment.

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