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Community-Supported Data Repositories in Paleoecology and Paleoclimatology: The ‘Middle
Tail’ between Geoscientific Users and Geoinformatics
Neotoma DBwww.neotomadb.org C4P
Jack Williams, Allan Ashworth, Brian Bills, Jessica Blois, Don Charles, Simon Goring, Russ Graham, Eric Grimm, Alison Smith, & Mark Uhen
Part I: Building the Middle Tail: Community-Led Data RepositoriesPart II: Interconnecting the Middle Tail: Cyberinfrastructure for the Paleogeosciences
“… data have no value or meaning in isolation; they exist within a knowledge infrastructure — an ecology of people, practices, technologies, institutions, material objects, and relationships.” - C.L. Borgman
Moving up the Value Chain: Generic Depositories vs. Community-Led Repositories
Neotoma Paleoecology Database: Community-Led Repository for Quaternary and Pliocene Data
Design Concepts• Spatiotemporal Database: species
occurrences & abundances in space & time
• Age Controls and Age Models stored
• Centralized IT and Distributed Scientific Governance Neotoma composed of several constituent databases (e.g. North American Pollen Database, FAUNMAP)
• Open Data accessible via Explorer, APIs, R Neotoma
• Broad User Community: Paleoecologists, ecosystem modellers, paleoclimatologists, biogeographers, educators, … Neotoma DB
Sounds great! What’s in it for me?1. Interested in using Neotoma to archive your data and
make it available to others?• Catch me after session• Talk to a Data Steward• WebEx training for new Stewards
2. Interested in using Neotoma & other paleobio resources?• Neotoma Explorer walkthrough exercise: http://
serc.carleton.edu/neotoma/activities.html • neotoma (R) paper (Goring et al. 2015 Open Quaternary)• User workshops: ESA2016, IBS2017• Hackathon Summer 2016
3. Interested in integrating your resource (software/DBs) to Neotoma & other paleobio resources?• Catch me after session• Hackathon Summer 2016
Neotoma PIs & Developers: Eric C. Grimm, Russ Graham, Mike Anderson, Allan Ashworth, Brian Bills, Jessica Blois, Bob Booth, Ed Davis, Don Charles, Simon Goring, Steve Jackson, Alison Smith, Jack Williams
C4P RCN Steering Committee: Kerstin Lehnert, David Anderson, Doug Fils, Leslie Hsu, Chris Jenkins, Anders Noren, Tom Olsewski, Dena Smith, Mark Uhen, Jack Williams
Neotoma DBNSF-Geoinformatics
NSF-Earth Cube
Eric Grimm
C4P
Paleobiological Data Consortium: Mark Uhen, Jack Williams, Brian Bills, Jessica Blois, Ed Davis, Simon Goring, Russ Graham, Michael McClennen, Shanan Peters, Alison Smith