A path to filled archives

Fleischer, Dirk; Jannaschk, Kai

doi:10.1038/ngeo1248

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“…An often noted obstacle to participation in community data management infrastructure (e.g, Fleischer and Jannaschk, 2011;Van Noorden, 2013;Fowler, 2016) is the conflict between the broad, generalized incentive for an overall research community to develop centralized infrastructure, and the immediate incentives of researchers who might, for example, view individually 30 authored publications as more critical to career-development objectives. The ICE-D prototype infrastructure has several features that could contribute to resolving this conflict.…”

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Technical note: A prototype transparent-middle-layer data management and analysis infrastructure for cosmogenic-nuclide exposure dating

Balco¹

2020

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Abstract. Geologic dating methods for the most part do not directly measure ages. Instead, interpreting a geochemical observation as a geologically useful parameter – an age or a rate – requires an interpretive middle layer of calculations and supporting data sets. Both of these are the subject of active research and evolve rapidly, so any synoptic analysis requires complete, repeated recalculation of ages from a growing data set of raw observations, using a constantly improving calculation method. Many important applications of geochronology involve regional or global analyses of large and growing data sets, so this characteristic is an obstacle to progress in these applications. This paper describes the ICE-D database project, a prototype computational infrastructure for dealing with this obstacle in one geochronological application – cosmogenic-nuclide exposure-dating – that aims to enable visualization or analysis of large, diverse data sets by making middle-layer calculations dynamic and transparent to the user. An important aspect of this infrastructure is that it is designed as a forward-looking research tool rather than a backward-looking archive: only observational data (which do not become obsolete) are stored, and derived data (which become obsolete as soon as the middle-layer calculations are improved) are not stored, but instead calculated dynamically at the time data are needed by an analysis application. This minimizes lock-in effects associated with archiving derived results subject to rapid obsolescence, and allows assimilation of both new observational data and improvements to middle-layer calculations without creating additional overhead at the level of the analysis application.

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Technical note: A prototype transparent-middle-layer data management and analysis infrastructure for cosmogenic-nuclide exposure dating

Balco¹

2020

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“…NATURE GEOSCIENCE | VOL 4 | DECEMBER 2011 | www.nature.com/naturegeoscience correspondence To the Editor -A recent Commentary 1 in Nature Geoscience points out a gap between the principles and actions of data sharing in geoscience, and urges professional support for the archiving of data during its creation. We agree with these points, but we would like to add that attention should also be paid to the interoperability of data.…”

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