LinkedEarth 2020

Julien Emile-Geay January 13, 2020

Happy new year to all! Despite EarthCube support for the project having ended, LinkedEarth is alive and kicking, and actually had a pretty peachy year, thank you for asking! That was in no small part thanks to the tireless Deborah Khider. A community pact Building on work started in 2016, […]

Paleoclimate data standards: a community pact, and its future

Julien Emile-Geay June 12, 2019

Developing data standards is a key goal of EarthCube, and doing so for paleoclimate was one of LinkedEarth’s core missions . Over the life of this project, we have come to realize that a data standard is really three things: a standard format for the data a standard terminology for […]

LiPD vs LinkedEarth

Deborah Khider January 5, 2018

AGU brought its own share of (welcome!) community feedback. Among them is the lingering confusion surrounding the difference between LiPD and LinkedEarth and I hope this blog post will clarify it. LiPD (pronounce: lipid) stands for Linked Paleo Data, a self-describing, machine-independent data format created by Nick McKay and Julien Emile-Geay […]

Doing Science with LinkedEarth

Deborah Khider February 26, 2017

My last task as a PhD student at USC was to generate a record of Holocene sea surface and deep ocean temperature and salinity variability within the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool. As a geochemist, I spent hours in the lab picking foraminifera, cleaning them, and performing isotopes and trace metal analyses. I […]

Community Data Standards

A key objective of LinkedEarth is to promote the development of a community standard for paleoclimate data and metadata. (for more details, see this page)The work done on LiPD, which closely mirrors our ontology, provides a stepping stone for this effort. Building on this, the workshop on paleoclimate data standards […]

Death by proxy

Julien Emile-Geay August 4, 2016

When LinkedEarth debuted last September, we knew that a strange beast called “ontology” would be involved, but it seemed very abstract. Nearly a year into it, we’ve already been through several versions of the LinkedEarth ontology, and all the paleoclimatologists on the team (Deborah, Nick and I) have had to […]

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