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PANGAEA® - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science (PANGAEA)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
University of Bremen
Helmholtz Association
Address:
Germany
Location
Am Handelshafen 12, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PO: 27570 (Germany)
Structure
Type Of RI
Virtual
Coordinating Country
Germany
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational since 1997
Scientific Description
PANGAEA is a publisher and library for geo-referenced data from earth system research. Observational and analytical data files are archived with a description (metadata) in a relational database. Its content is distributed via web services to portals, search engines and catalogs of libraries and publishers. Data is retrievable through a search engine and a data warehouse. Each data set includes a bibliographic citation and is persistently identified using a DOI. Pangaea is unique in archiving its content in a structured order with a high level of internal consistency. Pangaea offers service and curation for the data output of projects, institutes and individual scientists. Data can be archived as an independent publication or as a supplement related to an article. Data are in Open Access and are placed under a Creative Commons license. see also http://wiki.pangaea.de.

RI Keywords
Geology, Ocean acidification, Paleoclimate, Model, Zoology, Biology, Climate change, Botany, Data publication, Hydrology, Environment, Data warehouse, Meteorology, Palynology, Geo-reference, Polar research, Solar radiation, Oceanography, Project data management, Earth system science, Glaciology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Geophysics, Physics
Classifications
RI Category
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Research Data Service Facilities
Earth, Ocean, Marine, Freshwater, and Atmosphere Data Centres
Databases
Scientific Domain
Earth and Environmental Sciences
ESFRI Domain
Environment
E-Infrastructure
Services
Data publication with user service and training

Publication of individual datasets or data collections with provision of citations with DOI; user service, data archaeology.

Equipment
Computer with user front-end of PANGAEA

At the facility guests are welcome for training in using the client software of Pangaea for data import and publication.

Collaborations
Networks
European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD)
Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE)
SeaDataNet
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)
DataCite e.V.
European Polar Board (EPB)
World Data System (WDS)
International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
New operational steps towards an alliance of European research fleets (EUROFLEETS2)
Eurofleets (FP7)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission/International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IOC/IODE)
Date of last update: 16/08/2017
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