WIGOS can be used at different levels of granularity (Dataset, Timeseries, Observation etc.)<br /></p><p>The granularity is not currently specified in WIGOS.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For OSCAR metadata may be recorded for something like a week, a month etc. to provide an adequate level of metadata granularity.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Different objects may have different lifecycles.<br /></p>