Hivetool Hive Registration
Thank you for sharing your data. Open notebook, open source and citizen science all benefit from it. To upload data to the server, basic information is required to make your data useful. Please provide as much as possible. You will be able to edit this information any time.

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Contact

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E-mail*
First Name*
Last Name*
Address
City
State/Region
Country
Postal Code
Phone

Organization

(Green background is public information.)
Organization
Website URL

Hive

(Green backgrond is public information.)
Hive Name*
City*
State/Region*
Country*
Time Zone*
Elevation
Orientation
Power
Internet
Status
Computer

Weather Station
Weather Station ID
Name

Help

Contact
The information with a red background is not publically displayed.
  • Email* Used to contact you for alerts, problem with your data, update hive information.
  • First Name taken with last name hopefully form a unique identifer.
  • Last Name taken with first name hopefully form a unique identifer.

Organization
  • Organization The organization that "sponsors" the hive. It could be your own honey company or your local beekeeping association to which you would like to link.
  • Website URL A link will be provided to the URL of the above organization. To boost Search Engine ratings. a link back to your hive on Hivetool would be appreciated.

Hive
  • Hive Name* A unique identifier. If you are left brained, something logical like COUNTRY REGION NUMBER would make sense. If you are right brained, have fun. A Greek god. your name, your children's or aunt's name, the name of your honey business are OK. I find it convenient to use the town, county or part of the city where the hive is located. When directing local bee keepers to your hive data, it is easy to tell them to scroll down to [insert local name here] and click on it. Coding the location into the name probably isn't important as that information is stored separately, and we can sort and search for hives based on country, region, city
  • City* State/Region* Country* are used to help users locate your data
  • Time Zone* is used to convert your data to UTC for storage and to correctly display hive data in a time series accounting for daylight savings time shifts.
  • Elevation, Orientation Elevation in feet or meters and hive orientation (which direction the entrance faces) are used for research.

Weather Station