Technical documentation of PANGAEA management software

PANGAEA

PANGAEA is a globally leading information system, long term archive and data publisher for geoscientific, biological and environmental data. Jointly hosted by the Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) at the Universität Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), PANGAEA is laid out as a permanent facility, guaranteeing the long-term availability and accessibility of archived data and metadata in secure and machine readable formats. Data published by PANGAEA origins from a broad range of subdisciplines of the Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics with a special focus an Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences. It is World Data Center (WDC-PANGAEA) accredited by the International Council for Science (ICSU) World Data System. Further, it holds mandates from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as a World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC). Archiving follows the Recommendations of the Commission on Professional Self Regulation in Science for safeguarding good scientific practice and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding. PANGAEA is the designated archive for the journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD) and recommended data repository of several international scientific journals such as “Scientific Data” by the Nature publishing group. Essential services supplied by PANGAEA are data curation, long-term data archiving and data publication. Data curation includes quality control of metadata and the development of ontologies and vocabularies according to international protocols and standards. Metadata are extensive and each dataset can be cited using a universally unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The system is operated in the sense of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities which is a follow up to the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Documentation

	Database,system, Homepage	http://www.pangaea.de
General Information	Installations at GFBio collection data centers/ archives
	Contact persons	M. Diepenbroek, R. Huber, J.Felden
	Developer group, country	PANGAEA IT staff at MARUM : M. Diepenbroek & U. Schindler
	Data domains	Data published by PANGAEA origins from a broad range of subdisciplines of the Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics with a special focus an Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences.
	Organismic data	all recent and fossil organisms groups
Software and Database System	Operating System Server	UNIX
	User rights management	Database: Sybase ASE; Editorial system: Internal
	Client	4D PANGAEA Editorial system; PANGAEA web frontends
	GIS functionalities	Gmap
	GUIs for data import	4D PANGAEA Editorial system; Bulk upload via import sheets, txt, csv
	GUIs for data export/ reports	Dataset level: PANGAEA web frontend, HTTP download in various formats; Bulk/mass download: PANGAEA data warehouse
	GUI language	default: english
	Open access	yes
	Open source	no
	Licenses	creative commons
	Information model online	http://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/Data_model
	State of development	stable
	Code,language, developer platform	Java, C, PHP & Javascript
	User manual	http://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/Main_Page
	Training	Data curator training by PANGAEA staff at AWI
	Notes
Interfaces to export data in various schemas and standards	xml according ABCD schema	no
	BioCASe Wrapper Version installed, description of dataflow	no
	xml according DarwinCore schema	yes
	xml according EML schema	planned
	xml according other schemas	ISO19136, DIF, Dublin Core,etc..
	txt, CSV export	yes
	Notes

Status: March 2019

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