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The 3rd PAGES webinar will be held in conjunction with Neotoma on 15 October 2020 from 16:00-17:30 UTC. Access your local time here.
Access the recorded webinar on our YouTube channel.
Description
Presenter Jack Williams will give an overview of the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, its mission, key features of its data model, its software ecosystem, growth trends and other recent developments, research and educational partnerships, and data governance.
The webinar will be introduced by PAGES SSC Member Darrell Kaufman. After Jack's presentation, there will be a Q&A session.
Access the recorded webinar on our YouTube channel.
How to join
No prior registration is required to join the webinar.
Link to Zoom: https://unibe-ch.zoom.us/j/98654586707?pwd=V0NqejFwdGViYjVuNlZXcXBQMVUvUT09
(The link will lead you to the Guest login page. Type in your name and log in as a guest.)
Meeting-ID: 986 5458 6707
Password: 876697
Please keep your video and audio off. The chat will be used for questions.
Agenda
10 min: General intro
30 min: Presentation (by Jack Williams)
30 min: Questions, open floor
10 min: Closing, feedback on webinar format, follow-up activities and other webinar topics
Access the recorded webinar on our YouTube channel.
Background
Neotoma serves past global change research and education by providing an open, community-curated data resource for paleoecological and associated paleoenvironmental data. The data model supports multiple age-depth models and is readily extensible to new proxy types.
Neotoma data can be browsed using the Neotoma Explorer interface and programmatically accessed using APIs and the R Neotoma package. Data are assigned DOIs with landing pages archiving two versions: original submitted and current.
Neotoma now holds over 7 million individual observations from over 38,700 datasets, 18,600 sites, 7000 papers, and 6000 authors. It follows a distributed model of scientific data governance, in which individual Constituent Databases can appoint their own Data Stewards and take the lead on vetting and uploading data.
Major Constituent Databases include the European Pollen Database and other continental pollen database, FAUNMAP, the North American Diatom database, and the International Ostracode Database.
Neotoma welcomes new data contributions, data types, members, stewards, and partners.
Further information
Access the recorded webinar on our YouTube channel.
Watch the 1st PAGES webinar with LiPD and the 2nd PAGES webinar with WDS-Paleo.