Log in to the errata service

An issue on ESGF data can be detected and reported by any user or any actor of the ESGF community.

In version 1.0 of the errata service the issue had to be reported to the appropriate data provider. To that end, most of the ESGF netCDF files have a contact attribute with the email of the corresponding climate modeling group. If not exists please use the usual ESGF users mailing list. In version 2.0 of the service, a proposition platform is now available to users without having to authenticate.

In order to ensure the usefulness of the service, the issue have to be validated from a scientific point of view before its registration into the Errata database. Thus, only identified and authorized actors of the corresponding modeling groups can moderate (accept, update, reject) proposed issues or directly create, update and close issues.

Authentication requires a verified (by email) GitHub account. Authorization is controlled using GitHub’s organizations invitational based structure. The ES-DOC-ERRATA officers (designated in each group) and administrators are the only persons qualified to add GitHub users to the requested teams.

For the authorization, a user needs to be part of the organization team specified for the institute and the project he/she on behalf of which wishes to publish issues.

• Sign up on the GitHub platform:

GitHuib account creating interface

• Request to be affiliated to the proper GH organization team(s) from the ES-DOC administrators, as well as the institute(s) and project(s) you wish to be publishing issues on their behalf. (This can be done via email and/or Slack communication channels.)

• Visit the errata home page

• Click on the login button

Errata login button

• You are requested to sign-in to your GitHub account and to accept the use of select set of datafields for a 3rd party application (the errata service)

GitHub authentication page

• A redirection will take you back to the errata landing page, this time around you are authenticated and can access the functionality that come with it (creating and updating issues or moderating if it applies).

Logged-in features