Earth-Ref Magic Builder Help Window

The ErMagicBuilder is a Python tool for adding Earth-Ref data to MagIC project.
The top row in the dialog window shows the headers of the Earth-Ref tables. The required headers are added and cannot be removed. The bottom row in the dialog window shows a list of optional headers.
(Details on MagIC model different headers are in: "http://earthref.org/MagIC/metadata/)
To add or remove headers from your project model: choose the header name and click the add/remove buttons.

After you choose the headers of the tables press the OK button and follow the following steps in order:

  1. Open er_specimens.txt with Excel.
  2. Open er_samples.txt with Excel.
  3. Open er_sites.txt with Excel.

  4. Open er_samples.txt with Excel. some of the data you entered in er_sites.txt is now propagated into er_samples.txt. Fill in manually the rest of the information:
  5. Open er_locations.txt with Excel.

  6. Now we need to add ages. You can specify ages to any level (specimen, sample, site, location). But it is most recommended to assign ages to sites.