What are the inventory tables?
Each data stream includes at least one inventory table of its data filenames. The inventories are text files that can be opened in any spreadsheet or word processing package, though some are very large. There is one line (or row) per file, and a variety of fields (or columns) that specify the location of the file, the time and position ranges of the data file, and the parameters that it contains. For the data streams with the largest number of files, there are several inventory tables to make them a manageable size. All inventory tables contain the same fields for file location, data position and time, but they may contain a variety of fields for the data parameters. A space in the table means the data file does not contain that particular parameter. The inventories were developed for use with the integration search tool provided on the DVDs, but could be used with your own software. The inventories contain only data that were labelled as “good” by the WOCE quality control procedures.
