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Tree rings are used by many different researchers, for many different reasons.  The LinkedEarth community is well rooted in the paleoclimate community and while the ontology and data standard has great potential for use outside this community, we need to decide how to address the overlap in our discussions.  Should be concentrate on the needs of the paleoclimate community exclusively to begin with, and intend to go back and revise at a later date?  Or should we attempt to accommodate all potential users of tree-ring data from day 1?
  
 
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Revision as of 09:40, 7 October 2016


Overview

In the Linked Earth context, a working group (WG) is a self-organized coalition of knowledgeable experts, whose activities are governed herewith. This page is dedicated to the discussion of data and metadata standards for trees (see this page for a definition of the wood archive), and aims to formulate a set of recommendations for such a standard. Note that chronological aspects should be discussed within the Chronologies WG.

Members of 'Trees Working Group'

Specific tasks

We recommend that discussions focus on the following techniques, and explore potential commonalities.

For each chronology type, we recommend:

  • structuring discussions around what scientific questions one would want to ask of the data
  • listing essential, recommended, and optional information for:
    • the measurements themselves
    • any inference made from the measurements (e.g. calibration to temperature)
    • the underlying uncertainties, and what those numbers correspond to (e.g. 1-sigma or 2-sigma?)
  • provide an ideal data table for each type of observation, so the community knows what to report and how to report it.
  • provide separate recommendations for new and legacy datasets

Scope

Tree rings are used by many different researchers, for many different reasons. The LinkedEarth community is well rooted in the paleoclimate community and while the ontology and data standard has great potential for use outside this community, we need to decide how to address the overlap in our discussions. Should be concentrate on the needs of the paleoclimate community exclusively to begin with, and intend to go back and revise at a later date? Or should we attempt to accommodate all potential users of tree-ring data from day 1?

Sensors

An initial recommendation is to focus on different sensors:

Tree rings

Detrending

How to document the type of detrending applied to enable reproducibility.

Stable water isotopes

Here are polls that the group might want to consider:


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There was one vote since the poll was created on 15:22, 15 September 2016.
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