PANGAEA



 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 webservices 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. Both institutions have committed to operate Pangaea as a long-term archive.

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


 * If you would like to submit data for archiving or publication, please find advice in the Data submission chapter.
 * An introductory presentation to Pangaea is available at
 * A generic data policy for the use of Pangaea in cooperation with WDC-MARE is provided at and may be adopted for projects as required (see data policy).

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)
 * Proprietary web service as basis for PangaVista or clones

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:
 * PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data 

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. http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/88x31.png

Some data sets have a restriction to noncommercial use: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial which is explicitly explained in the meta data. http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/3.0/88x31.png

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

Domains
Pangaea is available under the domains pangaea, pangea and pangäa.

Background references

 * Recommendations of the Commission on Professional Self Regulation in Science (DFG 1998)
 * Budapest Open Access Initiative (2001)
 * Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003)
 * Göttinger Erklärung zum Urheberrecht für Bildung und Wissenschaft (2004)
 * Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding (OECD 2007)
 * The EUROHORCs and ESF Vision on a Globally Competitive ERA and their Road Map for Actions to Help Build It (ESF 2008)
 * Schwerpunktinitiative „Digitale Information“ der Allianz-Partnerorganisationen (2008)
 * Empfehlungen zur gesicherten Aufbewahrung und Bereitstellung digitaler Forschungsprimärdaten (DFG 2009)