Creating a LiPD file
The most straightforward way to upload a dataset onto the wiki is to first create a LiPD file and upload it directly.
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What is LiPD?
LiPD (Linked Paleo Data) is a convenient way to store and exchange paleoclimate data format and provides the backbone of the LinkedEarth edifice. LiPD is closely aligned with the LinkedEarth Ontology; changes in one are often reflected in the other.
How to read a LiPD file?
LiPD was designed so that is can capture much richer sets of (meta)data than ASCII or Excel files and to have a fixed backbone around which scientific codes can be built. There is a price to pay for this power: LiPD is undoubtedly more difficult to interact with than a plain text file. Although it is possible to unzip a LiPD file and navigate through the native JSON-LD and csv files, this not the best way to harness the power of LiPD files.
The easiest way to interact with a LiPD file is by using this very wiki, which allows you to navigate the hierarchical structure of the file easily.
In addition, we have developed several utilities to read and write LiPD files in Matlab, Python, and R.
