Intern:Proofread

The quality of the scientific data, the completeness of metadata and the data publication as it appears in the Internet is in the responsibility of the author(s)/PI. Thus it is important to inform the PI about the public availability of his/her data. After import the curator/editor requests for proofread by sending the DOI-link via the ticket system to the PI/authors. A text suggestions for this request is given below.

''Dear author,

''your data submitted to PANGAEA are available through the DOI given below. Please proofread the data and reply to this email with your approval or modifications/corrections.

''In your publication the DOI can be used to link to the data using a note like: The data supplement is available at doi:10.1594/pangaea.xxxxxx.

''Kind regards - Curator

''DOI linking to your data: http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.xxxxxx

(substitute xxxxxx by the data set ID)