Its purpose is to provide this support information to you, an ESIP representative. All ESIPs are automatically included in the Mercury SWIL through what we call basic participation . Basic participation requires little or no effort on your part.
Basic participation incorporates the standard metadata listed in the navigation tree below.
To learn more about these metadata, click on the appropriate link. The Mercury SWIL also offers enhanced participation that will provide potential users of your data with expanded searching or functionality. All enhanced participation is voluntary and each enhanced feature can be incorporated individually. To take advantage of an enhanced feature, you must provide one of the supplemental metadata types described in pages linked off the enhanced participation page. This document focuses on what you have to do to reap the benefits of enhanced participation.