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iAtlantic 'blueprint' for assessing ecosystem status published
2023-01-20
PANGAEA contributes to new iAtlantic perspective paper in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, outlining how international scientific partnership, collaboration, pooled resources and shared ambition can deliver the information to better manage and protect ecosystems in the deep and open ocean.
Merry Christmas!
2022-12-19
The PANGAEA Data Editorial Office is closed from 2022-12-19 to 2023-01-06. Data submissions will not be processed during this time. Happy Holiday Season and all the best for the New Year!
European Research Data Landscape
2022-11-30
The final report of the European Research Data Landscape attests that the PANGAEA repository hast the highest FAIR score
Registration is open! PANGAEA Community Workshop: FAIR data publications with PANGAEA
2022-11-21
The four-hour hands-on workshop focuses on preparing and submitting data to PANGAEA in accordance to requirements for FAIR and sustainable data publishing. Join online at Dec. 01 and 02, both 10:30am – 12:30pm CET (UTC+1). More details and pre-registration here (closes Nov. 27!!).
BSRN is now GCOS recognized network
2022-10-12
The Baseline Surface Radiation Network has now officially received the certificate of "GCOS recognized network". BSRN data is published in the WMO accredited World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC), which is hosted by PANGAEA.
MOSAiC Arctic Ocean drift experiment data
2022-10-06
A data collection was launched under Scientific Data journal, which describes the main achievements in terms of publicly available research data from the year-round multi-national MOSAiC Arctic Ocean drift experiment. PANGAEA is one of the official repositories for the data gathered during the MOSAiC expedition.
Thank you for your participation in our CWS 06/2022!
2022-06-12
The PANGAEA Community Workshop - Special focus: Data Access was really a very enjoyable and successful event. PANGAEA says "Thank you!" to the more than 50 participants who attended and made a lively contribution to the workshop. We are already looking forward to our next edition on "Data Submission" this November. Stay tuned!
Registration is open! PANGAEA de.NBI - Community Workshop: Finding and retrieving data from PANGAEA
2022-05-11
The in total four-hour hands-on workshop focuses on finding and using datasets already published on PANGAEA, and gives an in-depth introduction to various methods of systematically finding desired datasets for one’s particular task and making them available for further use and analysis. You can join online at the 02. and 03. of June 2022, each day at 10am - 12am CEST (UTC+2)
DFG specifies the requirements for handling research data in funding applications
2022-03-21
A subject-specific, adequate handling of research data on which scientific projects are based or which arise during their implementation is an essential part of quality-oriented and connectable research. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is now specifying the requirements for handling research data in applications for individual and collaborative projects and making information on this mandatory.
Data Usage Statistics
2022-03-09
As of today, PANGAEA is providing a new service – publicly accessible usage statistics on all data publications. You can assess views of landing pages or data matrices, and download counts. The aggregations built with respect to user privacy are reaching back to 2012!
Climate Change 2022
2022-02-28
The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report highlights the role of ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels.
Welcome to the team
2022-02-17
Welcome to our new PANGAEA team members Kathrin Riemann-Campe (AWI), Malik Naumann (MARUM) and Egor Gordeev (MARUM).
Happy New Year!
2022-01-10
The PANGAEA Data Editorial Office has returned from holiday season and started processing data submissions on 2022-01-10.
Merry Christmas!
2021-12-20
The PANGAEA Data Editorial Office is closed from 2021-12-20 to 2022-01-10. Data submissions will not be processed during this time. Happy Holiday Season and all the best for the New Year!
de.NBI Community Workshop: PANGAEA
2021-10-27
This workshop is aimed at all those who are interested in publishing scientific data and in topics related to research data management, and who want to take a look behind the scenes of the PANGAEA repository. Our agenda will revolve around these questions, among others: What does PANGAEA actually do, and what services does it provide? How do I find data on PANGAEA, and how do I get access to it? How exactly can I publish my data on PANGAEA? The registration is open now!
Ocean State Report 5
2021-09-22
This annual publication provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art report on the current state, natural variations, and ongoing changes in the European regional seas and global ocean
PAGES - Past Global Changes
2021-08-13
PAGES is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a new website. Paleoclimatology has been the original background for the foundation of PANGAEA.
IPCC Climate Change Report
2021-08-09
Human influence has warmed the climate at a rate that is unprecedented in at least the last 2000 years. See the latest IPCC report.
Earth Overshoot Day 2021
2021-07-29
By 29th of July we have already consumed the whole fund for this year; from this date on we already endanger the foundations of the planetary ecosystem.
Climate Emergency
2021-07-28
Up to date more than 13.000 from 153 countries scientists have signed the climate emergency declaration. See the latest paper for details.
MOSAiC expedition documentary
2020-11-18
One year in the eternal ice of the Arctic - the experiences and challenges during the MOSAiC expedition were captured in a documentary.
State of nature in Europe 2020
2020-10-20
Europe’s nature is experiencing a serious and continuing decline. The challenge to protect it is urgent, and significant additional efforts are needed to reverse the current trend.
Reduced service capacities from October 1st on
2020-08-20
To improve our efficiency in processing and archiving your valuable data, we are in the process of streamlining and restructuring our workflows and the underlying infrastructure from October to December 2020.
FAIR repositories
2020-05-11
Through the competitive FAIRsFAIR Open Call for Data Repositories, PANGAEA has been selected as one of the 6 data repositories that will provide their expertise in testing the practical solutions developed in FAIRsFAIR to enhance the FAIRness of data.
job opportunities
2020-02-14
Interested in data management and data infrastructures for your career? PANGAEA offers various positions. See our job postings.
Merry Christmas
2019-12-14
The PANGAEA Data Editorial Office is closed from 2020-12-16 to 2021-01-15. Data submissions will not be processed during this time. Happy Holiday Season and all the best for the New Year!
PANGAEA Video Tutorial
2019-11-19
Our first PANGAEA video tutorial is now available. Learn how easy it is to submit and publish FAIR data with PANGAEA.
Wind speed changes due to wind turbines at sea
2019-07-19
Researchers from TU Braunschweig and KIT Karlsruhe investigated how wind speeds change due to wind turbines at sea. Research aircraft Dornier 128 "D-IBUF" was used to record changes in the wind field behind offshore wind farms. Data are available at PANGAEA.
Make scientific data FAIR
2019-06-06
Institutions, science funders, data repositories, publishers, researchers and scientific societies from all scientific disciplines must work together to ensure all scientific data are easy to find, access and use, according to a new commentary in Nature by members of the Enabling FAIR Data Steering Committee.
Next RDA Plenary Meeting
2019-05-24
The 14th Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) will take place from 23-25 October 2019 in Helsinki, Finland. Registration is now open.
United Nations report on biodiversity
2019-05-06
A hard-hitting report into the impact of humans on nature shows that nearly one million species risk becoming extinct within decades, while current efforts to conserve the earth’s resources will likely fail without radical action.
new pangaea tool
2019-05-01
The software module 'pangaeapy' allows to download and analyse metadata as well as data from tabular PANGAEA datasets. Please take a look at the example Jupyter Notebooks.
Funding information
2019-04-17
PANGAEA data sets now contain information about funding awards as part of the project metadata. Please, check (click on project in the metadata)
10 years of DataCite
2019-03-07
The year 2019 sees the 10 year anniversary of DataCite, Jan Brase, former DataCite Director, tells us the story how it all began.
U.S. government shutdown
2018-12-27
Due to the US government shutdown, some of our datasets that rely on data from NOAA and other data centers, are not accessible at the moment. As soon as service there is back up, we will replicate external data sources – as far as licenses allow – to prevent similar problems in the future.
Building and Harnessing Open Paleodata
2018-11-22
Decades ago paleodata gave the impulse for the setup of PANGAEA. The latest issue of the Past Global Changes Magazine showcases the ongoing growth of a rich variety of openly available, globally distributed paleodata. It highlights new scientific, software, funding, and outreach initiatives that harness these open-data resources.
The National Research Data Infrastructure
2018-11-18
For our German users: The Joint Science Conference (GWK) has agreed upon implementing and funding a National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) in Germany. NFDI will be organized around larger consortia bringing together science and infrastructure providers.
Google Dataset Search
2018-09-05
Google has launched their new Dataset Search. Similar to how Google Scholar works, Dataset Search lets you find datasets wherever they're hosted, whether it's a digital library or a data publisher like PANGAEA. You can find references to most datasets in environmental and social sciences, as well as data from other disciplines including government. PANGAEA has contributed to the evaluation and refinement of this new tool. Check out the example for "marine litter"!
A data recommender system for PANGAEA
2018-08-06
We found a new solution to improve the data discovery on the PANGAEA portal. It’s a recommender system, which produces two types of recommendations: Datasets with similar metadata, based on features like title or geographic location, and "Users that were interested in this dataset were also interested in", based on user interactions on the portal. Check out our example!
R tools to work with pangaea
2018-06-22
The pangaear package on GitHub offers tools to interact with the PANGAEA Database, including functions for searching for data, fetching datasets by dataset ID, and working with the PANGAEA OAI-PMH service.
FAIR Data Action Plan
2018-06-22
The European Commission Expert Group on Turning FAIR Data into reality published an action plan. The Group has a remit to provide recommendations, indicators and input on the financing of activities required to turn FAIR data into reality at an EU, Member State and international level.
SUMMER SCHOOL ON RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT
2018-06-11
GFBio and de.NBI are organizing a summer school on research data management in Braunschweig/Germany from 5-7 September 2018. The course will address the whole data life cycle. Take a look at the program and register!
International Day for Biological Diversity 2018
2018-05-22
The United Nations has proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. This years event marks the 25th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and highlight progress made in the achievement of its objectives at the national and global levels.
New partnership between PANGAEA & DataONE
2018-05-18
PANGAEA exposes its metadata collection to the DataONE community. DataONE enables universal access to data and also facilitates researchers in fulfilling their need for data management and in providing secure and permanent access to their data. DataONE offers the scientific community a suite of tools and training materials that cover all aspects of the data life cycle from data collection, to management, analysis and publication.
Scientific data sharing in 2018
2018-04-26
A new set of recommendations address the policy and technological changes since the last Commission proposal on access to and preservation of scientific information. They offer guidance on implementing open access policies in line with open science objectives, research data and data management, the creation of a European Open Science Cloud, and text and data-mining. They also highlight the importance of incentives, rewards, skills and metrics appropriate for the new era of networked research.
Research Data Alliance Plenary 2018 in Berlin
2018-02-25
The 11th Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) will take place from the 21st to the 23rd March 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The ISCU World Data System including PANGAEA is involved in various working groups and sessions.
Geo Sample Numbers in PANGAEA
2018-01-15
We are pleased to announce that International Geo Sample Numbers (IGSN) in PANGAEA data are now actionable (clickable, resolvable). See the example resolving to samples hosted at the Bremen Core Repository.
Merry Christmas
2017-12-12
The PANGAEA Data Editorial Office is closed from 2018-12-22 to 2019-01-01. Data submissions will not be processed during this time. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Research Data Networks
2017-12-12