PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data
PANGAEA® is a repository for georeferenced data from earth system research. Datasets are citable including a persistent identifier (DOI). Read more about the PANGAEA information system. AWI together with MARUM operates the World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE) using PANGAEA as its central archive.
Example Datasets
- Documentation of sediment cores at the POLARSTERN core repository
- Cruise reports and data
- Oceanographic observations
- Sea-bed photographs (benthos)
- Sea Ice Physics
- Polarstern Meteorology
- Hausgarten
- Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean
Publications
Grobe, H., Diepenbroek, M. (2007) Datenpublikation im Internet, SYBASE (www.sybase.de).
Grobe, H., Diepenbroek, M., Dittert, N., Reinke, M., Sieger, R. (2006) Archiving and distributing earth-science data with the PANGAEA information system, Antarctica: contributions to global earth sciences; Proceedings of the IX International Symposium of Antarctic Earth Sciences Potsdam, 2003 / Hrsg. Dieter Fütterer; Detlef Damaske; Georg Kleinschmidt, Hubert Miller, Franz Tessensohn; Springer, Berlin, 403-406 pp
Harvesting PANGAEA
In the context of the Open Archives Inititative, PANGAEA is an OAI-PMH compliant data provider for which the following technical information is available:
Base URL
Identify
http://ws.pangaea.de/oai/?verb=Identify
