PaCTS v1.0
This page describes the first version of PaCTS (Paleoclimate Community reporTing Standard).
Contents
Background
This page describes PaCTS v1.0, which represents the first attempt by the paleoclimate community to standardize the reporting of paleoclimate data. To do so, the community organized itself in working groups centered around the main proxy archives. To see detailed discussions about how the standards evolved, see the current working groups (shortcut on the left).
The recommendation follows a vote on this platform, the LinkedEarth twitter account, and a survey distributed to the community through various platforms (e.g., listservs, PAGES network).
PaCTS v1.0
Each property is either deemed essential (without which the record can't be reused), recommended (necessary to reuse the record optimally), and desired.
In this context a legacy dataset is defined as a dataset that has not been contributed by the original author (see here for details).
Cross Archive Metadata
See the discussion in the cross-archive metadata working group page.
Datasets
| Question | New datasets | Legacy datasets |
|---|---|---|
| contributor | Essential | Essential |
| latitude | Essential | Essential |
| longitude | Essential | Essential |
| altitude | Essential | Essential |
| site name | Essential | Essential |
| dataset version | Essential | Recommended |
| any publication information | Essential | Essential |
| publication authors | Essential | Essential |
| publication year | Essential | Essential |
| publication title | Essential | Essential |
| publication doi | Essential | Essential |
| publication journal | Essential | Essential |
| funding information | Desired | Desired |
| funding principal investigator | Desired | Desired |
| funding agency | Desired | Desired |
| funding country | Desired | Desired |
| funding grant | Desired | Desired |
| any paleodata information | Essential | Essential |
| any chrondata information | Essential | Essential |
| depth/distance/position in the archive | Essential | Essential |
| information about how depth is transformed to age | Essential | Recommended |
| sample thickness | Essential | Recommended |
| original measurements | Essential | Essential |
| units | Essential | Essential |
| analysis date | Recommended | Desired |
| any additional data measured along the primary data of interest | Recommended | Recommended |
| interpretation | Recommended | Recommended |
| calibrated values | Essential | Recommended |
| calibration model | Essential | Recommended |
| calibration reference | Recommended | Recommended |
| physical sample name | Recommended | Desired |
| physical sample IGSN | Recommended | Desired |
| physical sample collection method | Recommended | Desired |
| instrument type | Essential | Recommended |
| laboratory name | Recommended | Desired |
| analytical method | Essential | Recommended |
| method reference | Recommended | Desired |
Compilations
| Question | New compilations | Legacy compilations |
|---|---|---|
| compilation name | Essential | Essential |
| compilation authors | Essential | Essential |
| funding agency | Desired | Desired |
| funding principal investigator | Desired | Desired |
| funding grant number | Desired | Desired |
| funding country | Desired | Desired |
| model used to compile data | Essential | Essential |
| compilation date | Essential | Recommended |
| compilation version | Essential | Recommended |
| compilation change log | Essential | Recommended |
| publication title | Essential | Essential |
| publication authors | Essential | Essential |
| publication year | Essential | Essential |
| publication journal | Essential | Essential |
| publication doi | Essential | Essential |
| publication from previous work | Essential | Recommended |
| unique identifier to the time series used in the compilation | Essential | Recommended |
