Welcome to Environmental Monitoring and Sensor Storage (EnMaSSe) documentation!

The EnMaSSe documentation is broken into three sections:

• User guide explains the application as a whole, application concepts and how to use it.
• Administrator guide focuses on installation, expected changes that administrators will need to do and general administration during normal usage.
• Developer guide outlines the frameworks and libraries used, the project structure and the technical details behind how it was developed.

All three guides focus on different areas and it is recommended that they are read in the order explained above.

• EnMaSSe User Guide
  • Overview
  • Metadata Records (ReDBox) Concepts
  • Data Concepts
  • Project Creation & Configuration
  • Managing & Searching Data
  • Project Lifecycle
  • Permissions & Sharing
  • Dataset Event Logs
• Using the Data Portal
• EnMaSSe Administrator Guide
  • Overview
  • Installation & Configuration
  • ReDBox Integration
  • Project Management
  • Editing Page Templates & Text
  • User Roles & Permissions
  • Managing Templates
• EnMaSSe Developer Guide
  • Ingester API
  • Developing the Provisioning Interface
  • Developing the Ingester Platform
  • Project Reusability
  • Information on Implementing Specific Functionality
  • Limitations & Future Work

Nomanclature

Within this document the following definitions are assumed.

Term	Definition
user	An end user, such as a researcher or student.
admin	A system administrator who will be responsible for installing, configuring, and administering the entire EnMaSSe platform.
developer	Someone with technical skills and understanding who will modify the source code of the EnMaSSe system.
EnMaSSe	The application this documentation is written for (it is a data and metadata collection tool).
Provisioning Interface	Internal component of the EnMaSSe application the provides the user interface (website).
Ingester API	Internal component of the EnMaSSe application the provides the Application Programming Interface (API) between the Provisioning Interface and Ingester Platform (how they communicate).
Ingester Platform	Internal component of the EnMaSSe application the provides the data ingestion and storage.
Dataset	A collection of data from a method at a set location.
Method	A way that data is collected and stored.