Earth System Atlas: citable publication and visualization of datasets (original) (raw)

Abstract

The rapid growth of digital data archived around the world, stored on a large number of different web servers and in numerous formats, are often under-exploited because of the difficulties that arise from data persistence, ease of access and format incompatibilities. The metadata and physical infrastructure necessary to make these data widely accessible and useful to the scientific community and the wider general audience (policy makers, educators, and the lay public) is often incomplete, or missing altogether. Web access to data also has a tendency to disappear when funds are no longer available to support these scattered individual efforts. As a result, access to and knowledge of data sources and their reliability and limitations is frequently a major stumbling block for scientists, policy makers, NGOs, educators and others. Data from significantly different disciplines have been stored and manipulated in highly different ways, and while it is possible to overlay diverse data on a...

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