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Article: Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: Problems, strategies, and perspectives
Title | Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: Problems, strategies, and perspectives |
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Issue Date | 2016 |
Citation | Climate of the Past, 2016, v. 12, n. 4, p. 911-921 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2016 Author(s). Sea-level and ice-sheet databases have driven numerous advances in understanding the Earth system. We describe the challenges and offer best strategies that can be adopted to build self-consistent and standardised databases of geological and geochemical information used to archive palaeo-sea-levels and palaeo-ice-sheets. There are three phases in the development of a database: (i) measurement, (ii) interpretation, and (iii) database creation. Measurement should include the objective description of the position and age of a sample, description of associated geological features, and quantification of uncertainties. Interpretation of the sample may have a subjective component, but it should always include uncertainties and alternative or contrasting interpretations, with any exclusion of existing interpretations requiring a full justification. During the creation of a database, an approach based on accessibility, transparency, trust, availability, continuity, completeness, and communication of content (ATTAC3) must be adopted. It is essential to consider the community that creates and benefits from a database. We conclude that funding agencies should not only consider the creation of original data in specific research-question-oriented projects, but also include the possibility of using part of the funding for IT-related and database creation tasks, which are essential to guarantee accessibility and maintenance of the collected data. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/273557 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.8 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.247 |
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dc.contributor.author | Düsterhus, André | - |
dc.contributor.author | Rovere, Alessio | - |
dc.contributor.author | Carlson, Anders E. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Horton, Benjamin P. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Klemann, Volker | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tarasov, Lev | - |
dc.contributor.author | Barlow, Natasha L.M. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bradwell, Tom | - |
dc.contributor.author | Clark, Jorie | - |
dc.contributor.author | Dutton, Andrea | - |
dc.contributor.author | Roland Gehrels, W. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hibbert, Fiona D. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hijma, Marc P. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Khan, Nicole | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kopp, Robert E. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sivan, Dorit | - |
dc.contributor.author | Törnqvist, Torbjörn E. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-12T09:55:56Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-12T09:55:56Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Climate of the Past, 2016, v. 12, n. 4, p. 911-921 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1814-9324 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/273557 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2016 Author(s). Sea-level and ice-sheet databases have driven numerous advances in understanding the Earth system. We describe the challenges and offer best strategies that can be adopted to build self-consistent and standardised databases of geological and geochemical information used to archive palaeo-sea-levels and palaeo-ice-sheets. There are three phases in the development of a database: (i) measurement, (ii) interpretation, and (iii) database creation. Measurement should include the objective description of the position and age of a sample, description of associated geological features, and quantification of uncertainties. Interpretation of the sample may have a subjective component, but it should always include uncertainties and alternative or contrasting interpretations, with any exclusion of existing interpretations requiring a full justification. During the creation of a database, an approach based on accessibility, transparency, trust, availability, continuity, completeness, and communication of content (ATTAC3) must be adopted. It is essential to consider the community that creates and benefits from a database. We conclude that funding agencies should not only consider the creation of original data in specific research-question-oriented projects, but also include the possibility of using part of the funding for IT-related and database creation tasks, which are essential to guarantee accessibility and maintenance of the collected data. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Climate of the Past | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.title | Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: Problems, strategies, and perspectives | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5194/cp-12-911-2016 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84964647451 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 12 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 911 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 921 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1814-9332 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000376073100007 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1814-9324 | - |