PanGet

The software PanGet is a special tool for the download of multiple data sets from PANGAEA. It uses the PANGAEA data set ID which is unique and part of the DOI. In a first step a list of ID's of those data sets to be downloaded must be created. There are two choices to define this individual collection of sets. Based on the ID list, the tool will download the data sets. Failed downloads are written to the file *_failed.txt. The functionality of PanGet is also part of the program Pan2Applic (choose File > Download PANGAEA datasets...) and PanTool2 (choose Basic tools > Download PANGAEA datasets...). For users of the UNIX operating system the script getDatasets was created.

Installation

 * Download PanGet from the PANGAEA web server.
 * Double-click the PanGet program file on your hard disk to start the setup program. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.

Create a list of dataset IDs
there are two choices:
 * a) create a list of IDs with the PANGAEA search engine
 * define a query which lists all data sets needed
 * change www.pangaea.de/search?count=xxx in the query-URL to the number of datasets found
 * on Return all hits (max. 500) will be listed on one HTML-page
 * Save the page as HTML-file (select HTML only as file type)
 * b) create a list of IDs with the 4D client (for curators only, you need 4D)
 * open the dataset table and configure the datset ID in the first column and the “Export filename” in the second one
 * search for the dataset selection you want with the search tab
 * save the resulting list as a text file. (Note: 4D can download a list with max. 30,000 data sets!)

Download
The resulting collection of files may be compiled and converted to other formats using the tool Pan2Applic.
 * Start PanGet or Pan2Applic or PanTool (File > Download PANGAEA datasets...) and open the file just created
 * Browse to your download directory
 * Set the prefered encoding of datasets to be stored
 * Click Go. PanGet downloads all data sets sequentialy, progress is shown. The download time depends on the number and size of the datasets.

Development contact [mailto:rsieger@pangaea.de Rainer Sieger, AWI]