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.

The Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC), hosted at http://earthref.org/MagIC is a database that serves as a Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) archive for paleomagnetic and rock magnetic data. It has a flexible, comprehensive data model that can accomodate most kinds of paleomagnetic data. The **PmagPy** software package is a cross-platform and open-source set of tools written in Python for the analysis of paleomagnetic data that serves as one interface to MagIC, accommodating various levels of user expertise. It is available through github.com/PmagPy. Because PmagPy requires installation of Python, several non-standard Python modules, and the PmagPy software package, there is a speed bump for many practitioners on beginning to use the software. In order to make the software and MagIC more accessible to the broad spectrum of scientists interested in paleo and rock magnetism, we have prepared a set of Jupyter notebooks, hosted on [jupyterhub.earthref.org](https://jupyterhub.earthref.org) which serve a set of purposes. 1) There is a complete course in Python for Earth Scientists, 2) a set of notebooks that introduce PmagPy (pulling the software package from the github repository) and illustrate how it can be used to create data products and figures for typical papers, and 3) show how to prepare data from the laboratory to upload into the MagIC database. The latter will satisfy expectations from NSF for data archiving and for example the AGU publication data archiving requirements.