-The `discovery` schema of each node, as well as the OTN database's own discovery schema, contains summarized data products that are meant to be quick shortcuts to analysis and reporting of popular data types. Here you can downsize the number of columns that accompany tag or receiver deployments, or bin up detections into easier-to-visualize bites. Simplified versions of these data types can also help you adhere to your Data Sharing Agreement with your user base, removing or generalizing the data according to what the community demands. The content of these tables is written by the [discovery_process_reload.ipynb](https://gitlab.oceantrack.org/otn-partner-nodes/ipython-utilities/-/blob/master/discovery_process_reload.ipynb) notebook, and the aggregation of the core discovery tables to the OTN database for aggregate reporting is performed by the [discovery_process_pull_node_tables_to_mstr.ipynb](https://gitlab.oceantrack.org/otn-partner-nodes/ipython-utilities/-/blob/master/discovery_process_pull_node_tables_to_mstr.ipynb) notebook. OTN does this for the purpose of reporting to funders, and helping with discoverability of datasets by publishing project pages with receiver and tag release location data for each project. If there are data that you do not want to supply to OTN for publication, you do not have to run those parts of the discovery process. Those data summaries will not be created or harvested by OTN during the discovery process phase of the [Data Push](./14_The%20Push.md).
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