PANGAEA

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The PANGAEA® logo shows the supercontinent Pangaea at about 150 Million years ago in an artistic vision. The logo is registered as a trademark since March 2006. Font of the Pangaea name is Times.

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PANGAEA® - Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data

is a data library for georeferenced data from earth system research operated in Open Access. Scientific primary data are archived with related metainformation in a relational database, distributed via web services and accessible through various clients on the Internet. Data set descriptions include a bibliographic citation and are persistently identified using a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).


PANGAEA is hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven and the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), Bremen, Germany and operated by the department Pangaea. Both institutions have committed to operate Pangaea on a long-term basis. The

The system is used by the World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE) as repository.



Search and retrieve data using different clients:

  • 4D client > curators tool to administer any metadata and to import data
  • PangaVista > search engine (works similar to Google)
  • ART (Advanced Retrieval Tool) > data mining
  • DDI (Direct Download Interface) > dynamic query
  • PIM (Pangaea Internet Mapper) > map view
  • PanCore > metadata search
  • DOI (Digital Object Identifier) > persistent link
  • OAI-PMH for exchange with portals (ISO, DC, XML)
  • Web services

System citation with DOI

It is not required to cite Pangaea when using data from the system. Always refer to data by using the data citation which accompanies each data set.

If it is required to refer to Pangaea as a data library, the following citation should be used:

License

Authors submitting data for archiving to the Pangaea data library aggree that all data are provided under the following licenses:

Except where otherwise noted, data in Pangaea is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. 88x31.png

Some data sets have a restriction to noncommercial use: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial which is explicitly explained in the meta data. 88x31.png

In any case when using data it must always be quoted by its citation!

Domains

Pangaea is available under the domains




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