Partnerships & Collaborations

EarthChem invites collaborations with academic individuals, projects and initiatives, national statutory bodies, and commercial entities that generate, archive and/or provide access to geochemical data.

 

EarthChem offers different levels of collaboration, based on the level of accessibility to a collaborator's data at the EarthChem portal:

 

Partner:  EarthChem Partners make their data holdings fully available at the EarthChem portal. Partners export their  data into the EarthChem XML format for integration in the EarthChem Portal XML database. Collaborations at this level require submitted data to include substantial metadata and are subject to data quality policies and error checking procedures.  This type of collaboration is suitable for independent data collections organized in relational format and compatible with data sets such as PetDB, GEOROC, and NAVDAT. EarthChem ensures that Partners receive full credit for their data at the EarthChem Portal and will provide use statistics for the contributed data upon request.

Current Partners:

  • PetDB - Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor
  • NAVDAT - North American Volcanic and Intrusive Rock Database
  • GEOROC - GEOchemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents
  • USGS National Geochemical Survey Database
  • SedDB - Information System for Sediment Geochemistry

 

Affiliate:  Affiliates either submit to the EarthChem portal a defined set of metadata for all samples, for which data are available in their data collection, or enable SOAP/REST web services (WFS or WMS) for the samples containing geospatial metadata, rock classification, material analyzed and chemical parameters analyzed. Query results at the EarthChem portal show samples available in the affiliate’s collection and URL links to the affiliate’s data system for each individual sample to allow users to access the geochemical data at the affiliate’s site. EarthChem ensures that Affiliates receive full credit for their data at the EarthChem Portal and will provide use statistics for the contributed data upon request.

Current Affiliates:

 

Contributor:  Contributors are EarthChem participants who deposit analytical or compiled data sets in the Geochemical Resource Library.  The status of Contributor applies to (a) investigators who submit their analytical data either voluntarily or in response to data reporting requirements from funding agencies or journals, and (b) investigators who contribute synthesis data sets that they compiled from the published literature and other sources. All contributed data sets are made available for public access via EarthChem’s Geochemical Resource Library. Publication in the Geochemical Resource Library will follow the guidelines of the STD-DOI system (www.std-doi.de). EarthChem ensures that Contributors receive full credit for their contributions and will provide download statistics for contributed data sets.

Please visit EarthChem's Geochemical Resource Library to see Contributions.

 

 

Topical Data Collections in Development with our Partners

MexDB: The database of Mexican Igneous Rocks
EarthChem staff is working with Luca Ferrari (UNAM) and Susanne Straub (LDEO) to facilitate the development of a database focused on the TransMexican Volcanic Belt. The effort will increase the number of volcanic samples from Mexico currently housed under NAVDAT and will enhance quality of data and metadata in current holdings to include detailed subduction and volume parameters, as well as ages and analytical methods. Download the MexDB report and action plan (160KB).

Central Atlantic Magmatic Province Dataset
EarthChem, in partnership with Rutgers University and LDEO/Columbia University, is assembling geochemical and petrological data from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP). The complete CAMP dataset will provide researchers with unprecedented access to data for studies on the world's largest Large Igneous Province. The CAMP dataset will be applicable to a wide range of research topics from continental break-up and the Triassic/Jurassic mass extinction to geochemical characteristics of the mantle prior to the onset of MORB volcanism.

 

Synergistic Efforts

EarthChem encourages synergistic efforts with projects, institutions, and organizations that are involved with the publication and management of geochemical data and the broader geoinformatics effort in order to advance data management in Geochemistry. Current complementary efforts include:

EarthRef- Earth Reference Data and Models
EarthTime - Calibrating Earth History Through Teamwork and Cooperation
GEON- Geoinformatics Network
GeoReM- Geoscience Reference Materials
LEPR- Library of Experimental Phase Relations
MetPetDB- Database for Metamorphic Petrology
MGDS- Marine Geoscience Data System
NGDC - National Geophysical Data Center
GeoStrat- Information System for Paleontology and Sedimentary Geology
Pangaea- Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data
SESAR- System for Earth Sample Registration
Tethys- Interdisciplinary GIS Database for Studying Continental Plate Collisions