User:Mbjones.89/KNB (repository)

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KNB
Initial releaseMay 2000
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeDisciplinary repository
License GNU General Public License
Websitehttps://knb.ecoinformatics.org

The KNB is an international disciplinary repository of data focused primarily on the ecological, earth, and environmental science domains. The KNB provides storage and search services to preserve data and scientific software and enable data discovery, reuse, and citation. Historically, the KNB has been used to store large numbers of data sets representing the long tail of environmental research [1], but starting in 2010 has been deployed to also store and share large data sets created from environmental sensor networks[2]. The KNB is designed to support broad-scale, open scientific synthesis by improving data availability, reuse, and scientific reproducibility[3]. The KNB repository was a founding member of the DataONE federation of data repositories, which increased the scope and impact of the holdings of all member repositories, thereby facilitating scientific data reuse[4][5].

Features[edit]

  • Data sharing and collaboration, access control
  • Heterogeneous data
  • DOIs
  • Support multiple metadata standards, including EML, FGDC, and ISO19139
  • API for automated access

Organizational history[edit]

  • Origination via NSF KDI program [1]
  • KNB as a Network, Maintenance and network expansion by NCEAS
  • Adoption of Metacat software globally
  • Federation via SEEK EcoGrid protocols [6]
  • Creation of DataONE: The KNB is a member of DataONE, the Data Observation Network for Earth.

Software[edit]

KNB is operated with the open source Metacat repository software, developed by NCEAS. While developed mainly to operate the KNB, Metacat is used worldwide for data repositories that wish to connect to the DataONE data federation.

  • Metacat UI can be customized to deploy the system seamlessly in an existing web site

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jones, M. B., M. P. Schildhauer, O. J. Reichman, and S. Bowers. (2006) The New Bioinformatics: Integrating Ecological Data from the Gene to the Biosphere. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 37:519–544. doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110031
  2. ^ Barseghian, D., I. Altintas, M. B. Jones, D. Crawl, N. Potter, J. Gallagher, P. Cornillon, M. Schildhauer, E. T. Borer, and E. W. Seabloom. (2010) Workflows and extensions to the Kepler scientific workflow system to support environmental sensor data access and analysis. Ecological Informatics 5:42–50.doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.08.008
  3. ^ Andelman, S. J., C. M. Bowles, M. R. Willig, and R. B. Waide. (2004). Understanding Environmental Complexity through a Distributed Knowledge Network. BioScience 54:240–246. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0240:UECTAD2.0.CO;2]
  4. ^ Reichman, O. J., M. B. Jones, and M. P. Schildhauer. (2011) Challenges and opportunities of open data in ecology. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331:703–5.doi:10.1126/science.1197962
  5. ^ Michener, W., D. Vieglais, T. Vision, J. Kunze, P. Cruse, and G. Janée. (2011) DataONE: Data Observation Network for Earth — Preserving Data and Enabling Innovation in the Biological and Environmental Sciences. D-Lib Magazine 17. doi:10.1045/january2011-michener
  6. ^ Michener, W. K., J. H. Beach, M. B. Jones, B. Ludäscher, D. D. Pennington, R. S. Pereira, A. Rajasekar, and M. Schildhauer. (2007) A knowledge environment for the biodiversity and ecological sciences. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 29:111–126. doi:10.1007/s10844-006-0034-8

External links[edit]


Category:Biological databases Category:Discipline-oriented digital libraries Category:Open access archives

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