Intern:Project data management/Proposal

Proposal draft text
The following text may be used in project proposals to describe the participation of Pangaea and its role in project data management:

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 * The data of this project will be archived, published and distributed through the World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE) using the data library PANGAEA (http://www.pangaea.de).
 * The data library PANGAEA (http://www.pangaea.de) will be used for the management of the project data. The system is aimed at archiving, distributing and publishing georeferenced scientific primary data related to the marine environment, to climatic variability and to the solid earth. Pangaea is a long-term operated archive comparable to a library. It can be used as a scientific tool to support the interpretation of comprehensive data collections. Technical operation is ensured by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) through a long-term commitment.

Data are stored in a consistent format with related meta-information in a relational database. The data exchange between project partners and the availability of products and published data to the scientific community will be established through a client/server system and web services on the Internet providing data in ISO and XML standard formats.

The system operates a growing dictionary of 80,000+ parameter from earth system research; new parameters required for the project, will be defined in a first step. A georeference in time and space allows the extraction of individually configured subsets of data from the inventory for further processing. To exchange unpublished data during the runtime of the project, data sets may be password protected. Long-term publication and distribution of data is defined in the data policy.

A dedicated data curator will operate at (the data center or the office of the coordinator(, considering the proximity of data sources, participants of the project and users in the wider scientific community. After the termination of the project and a final moratorium of (defined by the project) month, data will become public information, accessible through the projects web pages and distributed through webservices. For marine research projects the offical host/partner is the World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (http://www.wdc-mare.org).

The projects web pages will be operated by the data curator and will provide a service to all project participants, containing details of the established procedures for sampling and calibration to ensure that the merged data sets are both internally consistence and externally compatible (quality assurance). The web pages will be the basis for the internal workflow and will include the gateway to the data.