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PaCTS 1.0: a crowdsourced reporting standard for paleoclimate data
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posted on 2023-05-20, 07:25 authored by Khider, D, Emile-Geay, J, McKay, NP, Gil, Y, Garijo, D, Ratnakar, V, Alonso-Garcia, M, Bertrand, S, Bothe, O, Brewer, P, Bunn, A, Chevalier, M, Comas-Bru, L, Csank, A, Dassie, E, DeLong, K, Felis, T, Francus, P, Frappier, A, Gray, W, Goring, S, Jonkers, L, Kahle, M, Kaufman, D, Kehrwald, NM, Martrat, B, McGregor, H, Richey, J, Schmittner, A, Scroxton, N, Sutherland, E, Thirumalai, K, Kathryn AllenKathryn Allen, Arnaud, F, Axford, A, Barrows, TT, Bazin, L, Birch, SEP, Bradley, E, Bregy, J, Capron, E, Cartapanis, O, Chiang, H-W, Cobb, K, Debret, M, Dommain, R, Du, J, Dyez, K, Emerick, S, Erb, MP, Falster, G, Finsinger, W, Fortier, D, Gauthier, N, George, S, Grimm, E, Hertzberg, J, Hibbert, F, Hillman, A, William HobbsWilliam Hobbs, Huber, M, Hughes, ALC, Jaccard, S, Ruan, J, Kienast, M, Konecky, B, Le Roux, G, Lyubchich, V, Novello, VF, Olaka, L, Partin, JW, Pearce, C, Phipps, SJ, Pignol, C, Piotrowska, N, Poli, M-S, Prokopenko, A, Schwank, F, Stepanek, C, Swann, GEA, Telford, R, Thomas, E, Thomas, Z, Truebe, S, von Gunten, L, Waite, A, Weitzel, N, Wilhelm, B, J Williams, Williams, JJ, Winstrup, M, Zhao, N, Zhou, YThe progress of science is tied to the standardization of measurements, instruments, and data. This is especially true in the Big Data age, where analyzing large data volumes critically hinges on the data being standardized. Accordingly, the lack of community-sanctioned data standards in paleoclimatology has largely precluded the benefits of Big Data advances in the field. Building upon recent efforts to standardize the format and terminology of paleoclimate data, this article describes the Paleoclimate Community reporTing Standard (PaCTS), a crowdsourced reporting standard for such data. PaCTS captures which information should be included when reporting paleoclimate data, with the goal of maximizing the reuse value of paleoclimate datasets, particularly for synthesis work and comparison to climate model simulations. Initiated by the LinkedEarth project, the process to elicit a reporting standard involved an international workshop in 2016, various forms of digital community engagement over the next few years, and grassroots working groups. Participants in this process identified important properties across paleoclimate archives, in addition to the reporting of uncertainties and chronologies; they also identified archive-specific properties and distinguished reporting standards for new vs. legacy datasets. This work shows that at least 135 respondents overwhelmingly support a drastic increase in the amount of metadata accompanying paleoclimate datasets. Since such goals are at odds with present practices, we discuss a transparent path towards implementing or revising these recommendations in the near future, using both bottom-up and top-down approaches.
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Publication title
Paleoceanography and PaleoclimatologyVolume
34Issue
10Pagination
1570-1596ISSN
2572-4517Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesPublisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.Place of publication
United StatesRights statement
Copyright 2019 American Geophysical Union. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU.Repository Status
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