Author:
Williams John W.,Grimm Eric C.,Blois Jessica L.,Charles Donald F.,Davis Edward B.,Goring Simon J.,Graham Russell W.,Smith Alison J.,Anderson Michael,Arroyo-Cabrales Joaquin,Ashworth Allan C.,Betancourt Julio L.,Bills Brian W.,Booth Robert K.,Buckland Philip I.,Curry B. Brandon,Giesecke Thomas,Jackson Stephen T.,Latorre Claudio,Nichols Jonathan,Purdum Timshel,Roth Robert E.,Stryker Michael,Takahara Hikaru
Abstract
AbstractThe Neotoma Paleoecology Database is a community-curated data resource that supports interdisciplinary global change research by enabling broad-scale studies of taxon and community diversity, distributions, and dynamics during the large environmental changes of the past. By consolidating many kinds of data into a common repository, Neotoma lowers costs of paleodata management, makes paleoecological data openly available, and offers a high-quality, curated resource. Neotoma’s distributed scientific governance model is flexible and scalable, with many open pathways for participation by new members, data contributors, stewards, and research communities. The Neotoma data model supports, or can be extended to support, any kind of paleoecological or paleoenvironmental data from sedimentary archives. Data additions to Neotoma are growing and now include >3.8 million observations, >17,000 datasets, and >9200 sites. Dataset types currently include fossil pollen, vertebrates, diatoms, ostracodes, macroinvertebrates, plant macrofossils, insects, testate amoebae, geochronological data, and the recently added organic biomarkers, stable isotopes, and specimen-level data. Multiple avenues exist to obtain Neotoma data, including the Explorer map-based interface, an application programming interface, theneotomaR package, and digital object identifiers. As the volume and variety of scientific data grow, community-curated data resources such as Neotoma have become foundational infrastructure for big data science.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,Earth-Surface Processes,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Cited by
235 articles.
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