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+# EOPF STAC Best Practices
+
+## Table of Contents
+
+- [EOPF STAC Best Practices](#eopf-stac-best-practices)
+  - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
+  - [Introduction](#introduction)
+  - [Glossary](#glossary)
+  - [General Rules](#general-rules)
+  - [Product Type Specific Rules](#product-type-specific-rules)
+  - [Required Extensions](#required-extensions)
+  - [Credits](#credits)
+
+## Introduction
+
+This document defines best practices for representing ESA's EOPF products in STAC. It adopts the [STAC Zarr and N-Dimensional Array Best Practices](https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-best-practices/blob/71b1b2a94abe42625a3f9f5f224030b914598412/best-practices-zarr-ndarray.md) document to the characteristics of EOPF Zarr stores and complements the [EOPF metadata conventions](https://cpm.pages.eopf.copernicus.eu/eopf-cpm/main/PSFD/7-metadata.html) with respect to STAC assets.
+
+These guidelines address:
+
+- Mapping of EOPF data model concepts to STAC concepts
+- Metadata requirements for different EOPF product types
+  - Asset organisation and metadata 
+  - Integration patterns with existing extensions
+  - Metadata inheritance when converting from SAFE to EOPF
+- etc.
+
+Specifications referenced or applied in this document:
+- [STAC Specification v1.1](https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/tree/v1.1.0)
+- [STAC Zarr and N-Dimensional Array Best Practices](https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-best-practices/blob/71b1b2a94abe42625a3f9f5f224030b914598412/best-practices-zarr-ndarray.md)
+- [EOPF Metadata Representation](https://cpm.pages.eopf.copernicus.eu/eopf-cpm/main/PSFD/7-metadata.html)
+- [EOPF Product Structure and Format Definition](https://cpm.pages.eopf.copernicus.eu/eopf-cpm/main/PSFD/index.html)
+- [EOPF STAC extension](https://github.com/CS-SI/eopf-stac-extension)
+- etc.
+
+## Glossary
+
+For complete terminology please also refer to
+- the [EOPF Core Python Modules Documentation](https://cpm.pages.eopf.copernicus.eu/eopf-cpm/main/index.html)
+- the [STAC Zarr and N-Dimensional Array Best Practices](#)
+- the [Zarr specification](https://zarr-specs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/v3/core/#concepts-and-terminology) 
+
+## General Rules
+
+## Product Type Specific Rules
+
+## Required Extensions
+
+## Credits
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