Talk:Mission statement

PANGAEA®   - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science is a data library aimed at collecting, archiving, and disseminating data related to earth system research. It focuses on georeferenced observational data, experimental data and models/simulations. Data are archived with a meta descriptions and shared following ISO standards. Each data set has a bibliographic citation including a DOI as persistent identifier. Dataset metadata are “Open Access” and data is primarily available under a Creative Commons license. PANGAEA is hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), and MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences of the University of Bremen. PANGAEA is open to any project, institute or individual scientist to archive and to publish data.