HR: 11:56h
AN: IN52A-09    [Abstracts]
TI: Community-Based Development of Standards for Geochemical and Geochronological Data
AU: * Lehnert, K A
EM: lehnert@ldeo.columbia.edu
AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, United States
AU: Walker, D
EM: jdwalker@ku.edu
AF: Department of Geology, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd, Room 120, Lawrence, KS 66045-7613, United States
AU: Vinay, S
EM: sri@ciesin.columbia.edu
AF: Center for International Earth Science Information Network, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, United States
AU: Djapic, B
EM: bdjapic@ciesin.columbia.edu
AF: Center for International Earth Science Information Network, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, United States
AU: Ash, J
EM: jasonash@ku.edu
AF: Department of Geology, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd, Room 120, Lawrence, KS 66045-7613, United States
AU: Falk, B
EM: bfalk@ciesin.columbia.edu
AF: Center for International Earth Science Information Network, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, United States
AB: The Geoinformatics for Geochemistry (GfG) Program (www.geoinfogeochem.org) and the EarthChem project (www.earthchem.org) aim to maximize the application of geochemical data in Geoscience research and education by building a new advanced data infrastructure for geochemistry that facilitates the compilation, communication, serving, and visualization of geochemical data and their integration with the broad Geoscience data set. Building this new data infrastructure poses substantial challenges that are primarily cultural in nature, and require broad community involvement in the development and implementation of standards for data reporting (e.g., metadata for analytical procedures, data quality, and analyzed samples), data publication, and data citation to achieve broad acceptance and use. Working closely with the science community, with professional societies, and with editors and publishers, recommendations for standards for the reporting of geochemical and geochronological data in publications and to data repositories have been established, which are now under consideration for adoption in journal and agency policies. The recommended standards are aligned with the GfG and EarthChem data models as well as the EarthChem XML schema for geochemical data. Through partnerships with other national and international data management efforts in geochemistry and in the broader marine and terrestrial geosciences, GfG and EarthChem seek to integrate their development of geochemical metadata standards, data format, and semantics with relevant existing and emerging standards and ensure compatibility and compliance.
UR: http://www.geoinfogeochem.org, http://www.earthchem.org
DE: 1099 General or miscellaneous
DE: 6339 System design
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting