The Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC) Data Repository:
Interoperability with GeoCodes, EPOS, and Other Information Systems
Abstract
MagIC (earthref.org/MagIC (https://www2.earthref.org/MagIC)) is an
organization dedicated to improving research capacity in the Earth and
Ocean sciences by maintaining an open community digital data archive for
rock and paleomagnetic data with portals that allow scientists and
others to access to archive, search, visualize, download, and combine
versioned datasets. A recent focus of MagIC has been to make our data
more accessible, discoverable, and interoperable to further this goal.
In collaboration with the GeoCodes/P418 group, we have continued to add
more schema.org metadata fields to our data sets which allows for more
detailed and deep automated searches. We are involved with the Earth
Science Information Partners (ESIP) schema.org cluster which is working
on extending the schema.org schema to the sciences. MagIC has been
focusing on geo- science issues such as standards for describing deep
time. We are also collaborating with the European Plate Observing System
(EPOS)’s Thematic Core Service Multi-scale laboratories (TCS MSL). MagIC
is sending its contributions’ metadata to TCS MSL via DataCite records
for representation in the EPOS system. This collaboration should allow
European scientists to use MagIC as an official repository for European
rock and paleomagnetic data and help prevent the fragmenting of the
global paleomagnetic and rock data into many separate data repositories.
By having our data well described by an EarthCube supported standard
(schema.org/JSON-LD), we will be able to more easily share data with
other EarthCube projects in the future.