Data Contribution

"Full and open sharing of the full suite of global data sets, and other data sets needed for global change studies, is the primary objective of the IGBP." - IGBP Report No.12

"Make your data available without restrictions once published by contributing to an organization committed to long-term data availability."

Our goal at the WDC is to make data submission easy and efficient for you, to help you preserve your data as a legacy that can be used by your colleagues today AND by future generations of scientists.

The WDC has made a long term commitment to preserve your data and make it available to others. Once contributed your data will be available to others as a set of files organized by your name, date, and contribution number (accessible via the WWW, FTP, and also on diskette). Your data may also be imported into a relational database and thus accessible using database queries.

• What about a proprietary period for exclusive use?
• What if I want to have my own archive or Web site?
• What about the ancillary project data that I never published?
• What are the Internationally-agreed up on policies for data sharing?

How to contribute:

• Check the guidelines to make sure your data set is complete, and in a useable format. Contact us if you have questions about what to include or what formats are required. View the existing entries in the WDC for Paleoclimatology Contributions Series.

• Submit your data in one of the following ways:
  • As an email attachment
  • FTP to the /pub directory on the WDC server
  • Mail data as a diskette.  Printed reports are also accepted.
  • New: Submit your Tree Ring, Paleoceanography, or Paleofire Data Online!!

• Receive your acknowledgement and Contribution Number from the Center, and review your data set to make sure everything is correct.

Editorials from Paleoceanography (Volume 9 Number 3, June 1994)

Archiving data for Paleoceanography

Archiving data at the World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology

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