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        "title": "CalCOFI phytoplankton community composition (Venrick) — CCE-LTER EDI package",
        "issues": []
      },
      {
        "portal": "ncei",
        "status": "n/a",
        "issues": []
      },
      {
        "portal": "caloos",
        "status": "planned",
        "issues": []
      },
      {
        "portal": "zenodo",
        "status": "published",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22281994",
        "id": "10.5281/zenodo.22281994",
        "title": "CalCOFI Integrated Database (the release deposit)",
        "note": "as part of the integrated database release"
      }
    ],
    "status": {
      "stage": "ingested",
      "priority": "must-complete",
      "gh_issue": "https://github.com/CalCOFI/workflows/issues/28",
      "blockers": "INGESTED: EDI knb-lter-cce.254.4 (Venrick, 1996-2022); region-pooled grain (phyto_sample 409 = 4 regions x 103 cruises, phyto_measurement 159.8k, phyto_taxon 399); cruise_key 59% (Q06), WoRMS 309/390 (Q05), region geometry derived from the declared station membership - polygons, all 34 stations placed (Q01 awaits only confirmation the lists are current)",
      "publish_policy": "Archive of record: CCE-LTER's EDI package knb-lter-cce.254.4, the ingest's source — never republished by CalCOFI. OBIS: planned (Darwin Core Archive built and staged each release; region-pooled events carry no date, so OBIS indexing is limited).",
      "updated": "2026-09-07",
      "questions_open": 7,
      "questions_dataset": []
    }
  }
}