Abstract
Abstract. Paleoenvironmental studies and according information (data) are abundantly published and available in the scientific record. However, GIS-based paleoenvironmental information and datasets are comparably rare. Here, we present an Open Science approach for creating GIS-based data and maps of paleoenvironments, and Open Access publishing them in a web based Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), for access by the archaeology and paleoenvironment communities. We introduce an approach to gather and create GIS datasets from published non-GIS based facts and information (data), such as analogous maps, textual information or figures in scientific publications. These collected and created geo-datasets and maps are then published, including a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to facilitate scholarly reuse and citation of the data, in a web based Open Access Research Data Management Infrastructure. The geo-datasets are additionally published in an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards compliant SDI, and available for GIS integration via OGC Open Web Services (OWS).
Highlights
The presented project is developed in the frame of the interdisciplinary and inter-institutional Collaborative Research Centre 8061 (CRC 806)
Published data, prepared and digitized into GIS formats for reuse, provide valuable contributions for the paleoenvironmental record, and for facilitating further research that is based on this new GIS data sources
The publication in GIS formats is helpful for data integration in different projects, because the spatial integration is already clear, as well as the data handling requirements
Summary
The presented project is developed in the frame of the interdisciplinary and inter-institutional Collaborative Research Centre 8061 (CRC 806). Within the Data Management and Data Services (Z2) sub-project of the CRC 806, the here presented approach is applied for providing GIS-based geo-data and maps, according to the given research questions, to the collaborating projects, and via online publication to the wider research community. It is obvious, that the core of almost all research questions within this research setting is of spatio-temporal nature. The availability of paleoenvironmental information from reconstructions, simulations, or qualitative synthesis depicted on a map are most often not available in GIS data formats. The resulting maps and GIS data sets of the here presented
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