tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:44:34 +0000geoinformaticsgeoblogospherepaleontologystratigraphyagenamestaxonconcepttaxonomyfundingageparsermetadataopen accessscience policyXMLpsicatpublication of datasoftwarebeerbiodiversity informaticsbioinformaticscyberinfrastructuredata managementgeological mapsmass extinctionstratigraphic conceptsstratigraphy.nettaxonranktext miningunique identifierweb 2.0SnetTCSTriassicagesearcharchivebook reviewchiemgau impactclimate changedata policydinosaurse-sciencegeobulletingeochemistrygeoparsergraphk-t boundarylithologylithostratigraphylsidmeteoritepetrologyphylogeny pre-cambrian "early evolution"science blogssemanticssocial networkssvgweb application"science blogs"AnthropoceneAustraliaCHRONOSCambrianCambrian ExplosionCretaceousEarthCubeElsevierGenbankGondwanaGoogleIGSNJurassicNeogeneOAIOneGeologySESARTable MountainUTMWDCYACOAacid rainagetaggingalexaarchaeologybanded iron formationbeyond sleepbiblebirdschronotaggingclassificationcollectioncollection managementcoordinate extractioncoralsdoidublin coreend userevolutionflood volcanismfurchensteingenesisgeonamesgrid computinghumanitiesideasingvinteroperabilityjsvizlihology logslithologslong term archivelunar geologymediamegafaunametazoamorphologymuseumnbiipagerankpangaeapeer reviewpersistent identifierpreprintproterozoicradiorankingregmaglyptregular expressionresearch rankingromasciencesedimentologyseismologysoftware patentsspatial referencestructural geologysurveyterminationtrustworthinesstsunamitwitter dit.livisualizationvolcanismwebinarworkshopThe official <a href="http://www.stratigraphy.net">Stratigraphy.net</a> Blog. Geoinformatics, geology, stratigraphy and paleontologyhttp://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-1975989101143790094Wed, 22 Jul 2015 03:08:00 +00002015-07-22T05:08:18.665+02:00The first minting of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) for research data happened in 2004 in the context of the project “Publication and citation of primary scientific data” (STD-DOI). Some of the concepts and perceptions about DOI for data today have their roots in the way this project implemented DOI for research data and the decisions made in those early days still shape the discussion http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2015/07/doi-for-geoscience-data-how-early.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-7980468890223293466Wed, 15 Oct 2014 01:23:00 +00002014-10-15T03:25:28.727+02:00Anthropocenestratigraphic conceptsworkshopWe have already reported on the Anthropocene in this blog. The idea that we might be moving things in future deep time is inspiring and disturbing at the same time. The Haus der Kulturen der Welt has initiated a project working on cultural aspects of the Anthropocene, the "Anthropocene Project". The project is coming to a close now. The symposium of its working group will be broadcast live on http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-anthropocene-artists-rendition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-2723988561223546161Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:25:00 +00002014-07-30T10:23:30.552+02:00classificationgeochemistrylithologypetrologyPetrology, I must admit, was never my favourite subject even though I had to do quite a bit of it during my time as a student. Even my Honours project had a petrological component. An important tool for the classification of igneous rocks is the QAPF diagram which forms the basis of the IUGS classification of igneous rocks (Le Bas and Streckeisen, 1991). It was interesting to go back to this http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2014/07/classification-of-igneous-rocks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-4319988970408642603Mon, 14 Jul 2014 05:07:00 +00002014-07-14T07:07:50.925+02:00AustraliasoftwarestratigraphyvisualizationOn the weekend 11-13 July 2014 various Australian government institutions had invited to join GovHack 2014. Governments collect and publish enormous amounts of data, but have limited resources to get it into the hands of their citizens in engaging ways. GovHack is an event to draw together people from government, industry, academia and of course, the general public to mashup, reuse, and http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2014/07/australia-through-time-ipad-app.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-6242783420665054725Tue, 15 Apr 2014 02:09:00 +00002014-04-15T04:09:20.541+02:00biodiversity informaticswebinarXML<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2014/04/webinars-idigbio-and-using-schemaorg.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-1535281049029904825Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:02:00 +00002014-01-28T09:02:28.406+01:00cyberinfrastructureEarthCubeinteroperabilitypaleontologypublication of dataThe steering committee of the Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences (C4P) project announced a new webinar series "Advances And Emergent Needs in Paleogeoscience Cyberinfrastructure".The first webinar will be held on Tuesday, 04 February 2014 at 1600h Eastern Time (2200h CET, 2000h UTC).The topics on 04 February 2014 are "Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2014/01/earthcube-webinar-series-advances-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-4203779955363610536Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:03:00 +00002013-09-26T19:03:35.759+02:00The sandbox is open now. It allows to test the lithologs editor without registration here.http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2013/09/lithologs-sandbox.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-7078356150922838870Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:29:00 +00002013-09-12T15:29:40.586+02:00Ok, not like a whole chicken, but this one has exactly the form and proportions of a good fried chicken drumstick. My son has found this&nbsp;stone&nbsp;somewhere in the bavarian alps this summer and it was worth to sample.. http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2013/09/stones-that-look-like-chicken.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-6920628411683813764Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:18:00 +00002013-06-03T09:18:06.653+02:00Cretaceousflood volcanismmass extinctionNeogenestratigraphyMass extinctions are among the most intriguing events in earth history and their cause a matter of heated and passionate debate. An article in EOS by Keller et al. reports on a recent workshop at the Natural History Museum in London. Since the seminal paper by Alvarez et al. on the nature of the K-T boundary it had always been the argument mainly between the proponents of the impact hypothesis http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2013/06/who-shot-sheriff.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-6698332246102189420Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:01:00 +00002013-04-03T09:01:11.947+02:00 Originally published by by Randall Munroe on XKCD. http://xkcd.com/1194/http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-mysteries-of-deep-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-2344358333312244054Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:51:00 +00002013-03-08T13:54:50.876+01:00lithologslithologypsicatsvgAfter some initial experiments with Psicat and SVG we can now offer a new, cool Snet tool: Lithologs.&nbsp; Lithologs is a tool which allows to create and plot lithological logs online. It is very inspired by Psicat and internally uses the Psicats XML to store litholog data. But unlike Psicat it plots lithological columns using SVG, which you can also embed in your blog, website etc. like this http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2013/03/introducing-lithologs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-2105929051809744958Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:46:00 +00002012-10-23T10:47:39.936+02:00data managementpublication of dataAnother interesting development in the world of research data management: Pensoft announced that the Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) will start accepting submissions in December 2012. The BDJ is a new data journal similar to the Earth System Science Data Journal (ESSD) which pioneered in publishing research data. Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) is a community peer-reviewed, open-access, http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2012/10/biodiversity-data-journal-archiving-or.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-4482019159352402800Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:38:00 +00002012-06-08T14:38:01.991+02:00For one my older projects (agesearch) I needed access to search engine results which I used to 'calculate' a stratigraphic context of given keywords. The idea was to visit all pages the search engine returns and to use Ageparser to scan these pages for stratigraphic terms to estimate their chronostratigraphic context which should be representative also for the entire search phrase. I started to http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2012/06/dont-build-on-external-apis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-7088096459009546635Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:06:00 +00002012-01-10T09:59:16.321+01:00long term archivenbiiterminationWDCAs earlier annouced at the whitehouse website, a major budget cut forced the USGS to terminate several initiatives. Among those, all services of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) will be shut down or transferred to yet unknown locations (maybe data.gov). This will happen at January 15, 2012 so if you have to work with the NBII services ... hurry up. These are really bad http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2012/01/termination-of-national-biological.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-7189432965010608066Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:31:00 +00002011-10-06T14:16:24.144+02:00taxonomyIn his post Taxonomy - crisis, what crisis? Rod Page reported on a new publication by Lucas et al (in press) which contains some really provocative findings:There is no decrease in the number of taxonomists, yet no 'taxonomy crisis'Instead there is an increase of taxonomists since 1900But there is a decline in the number of species descriptions per taxonomistThis is really interesting, especiallyhttp://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2011/10/taxonomy-crisis-nothing-left-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-8403488807813331049Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:53:00 +00002011-10-04T19:54:46.810+02:00geoblogosphereScience blogs are new and rapidly evolving media in the social web. In the last years, several hundred geoscience professionals and students have started their own Earth science blogs. Serious concerns exist about the credibility of scientific blogs but until now, no info has been published on the geoblogosphere’s motivation and the writer’s societal and scientific backgrounds. Here we http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2011/10/state-of-geoblogosphere-geoscience.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-6042334243854408391Mon, 30 May 2011 07:44:00 +00002011-05-30T10:03:54.661+02:00climate changegeochemistrypaleontologystratigraphic conceptsIn its current issue, The Economist has published an interesting piece on "The Anthropocene - A man made world". In terms of public understanding of science it gives an interesting insight into how stratigraphy works, how palaeontology and geochemistry are used to define stratigraphical ages. It also looks at earth system science and on the interplay of human activity, climate and ocean http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2011/05/welcome-to-anthropocene.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-4375918660854470116Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:37:00 +00002011-04-26T15:53:31.474+02:00After James Landell circulated 'An Open Letter in Support of Digital Data Archiving' via the paleonet list server, a quite controversal discussion followed. This thread included almost any kind of paranoia you would expect to hear if someone asks a group of pre-web scientists to share their data.Anyway, this letter apparantly had significant impact and NATURE editors now hope that 'Fossil data http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2011/04/paleontologists-enter-web-period.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-822395764544667407Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:50:00 +00002011-04-13T14:58:39.193+02:00taxonomyRod Page reports on the growing number of unclassified and 'name less' GenBank entries in is new post 'Dark taxa: GenBank in a post-taxonomic world'.http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2011/04/welcomenhe-post-taxonomic-world.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-8403038928380804392Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:21:00 +00002011-02-27T13:40:43.880+01:00research rankingLast friday I published the first public beta version of a new -and very different- project: European Research Ranking is an attempt to calculate the importance of research institutions based on the publicly available CORDIS database published by the European Commission.This database contains some basic information on projects which have been funded by the European Commission such as project http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2011/02/european-research-ranking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-3717049921411691322Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:08:00 +00002011-01-24T14:38:42.806+01:00megafaunapaleontologytaxonomyunique identifierChanges in names and taxonomical classification are a common occurrence as our knowledge of species living and extinct expands. In fact, around 10% of all taxonomic names are changed every year (Nimis, 2001). The changes are mainly in the realm of microbiology where morphology is difficult to apply, but rarely in the realm of charismatic megafauna, e.g. elephants.However, there has been a long http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-ancestry-for-elephants.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-329758057670485427Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:02:00 +00002011-01-11T09:11:23.585+01:00geoinformaticsgeological mapslithostratigraphysoftwareweb applicationColumbia University recently published yet another earth science application for Apple's iPhone. The app is called EarthObserver and is available from Apple's iTunes store. EarthObserver providesBasemap (computer-generated color-shaded relief of land and ocean floor)US Coastal Bathymetry (with color palette appropriate to provide details of bays, sounds, estuaries, harbors and rivers)US Nauticalhttp://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2011/01/earthobserver-as-iphone-app.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-3454541136211265712Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:47:00 +00002010-12-23T13:53:16.141+01:00geological mapsstratigraphyweb applicationThe British Geological Survey (BGS) has published a nice new application for iPhone: a geolgical map of Britain called iGeology. It is for free and with the GPS on board the phone you can find out what rock is below your feet.Enter a place name or postcode, or locate yourself with your phone's in-built GPS.Pinch open to zoom in. Tap on the geological map What are you standing on? Deposits from anhttp://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2010/12/igeology-bgs-iphone-app.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-6434858962426542088Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:06:00 +00002010-12-13T09:18:26.480+01:00k-t boundarysedimentologystratigraphytsunamiSediments deposited by tsunamis have been studied in the past as records of catastrophic events. The earthquake and tsunami that struck the Indian Ocean region on Boxing Day 2004 and claimed around 200,000 lives highlighted the need to study the sedimentary record of past tsunamis to help with planning disaster mitigation measures in coastal areas threatened by tsunamis. To help with the http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2010/12/identification-of-tsunami-deposits-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jens Klump)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354484117781203364.post-2930323761473302741Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:05:00 +00002010-10-27T21:24:58.133+02:00geoblogospheregeobulletinGeobulletin now has a new 'weekly review' page, a summary of the Geoblogosphere's weekly blogging activity. The 'weekly review' page shows the top 10 most active and most visited blogs. It gives a rough overview on the topics treated in geoblogs by listing the most frequently used keywords and the places and stratigraphic ages most often used in blog posts. Further, it shows a list of the http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2010/10/top-of-blogs-geoblogospheres-weekly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)4