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Assembly and concept of a web-based GIS within the paleolimnological project CONTINENT (Lake Baikal, Russia)

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Web-based Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are excellent tools within interdisciplinary and multi-national geoscience projects to exchange and visualize project data. The web-based GIS presented in this paper was designed for the paleolimnological project ‘High-resolution CONTINENTal paleoclimate record in Lake Baikal’ (CONTINENT) (Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia) to allow the interactive handling of spatial data. The GIS database combines project data (core positions, sample positions, thematic maps) with auxiliary spatial data sets that were downloaded from freely available data sources on the world wide web. The reliability of the external data was evaluated and suitable new spatial datasets were processed according to the scientific questions of the project. GIS analysis of the data was used to assist studies on sediment provenance in Lake Baikal, or to help answer questions such as whether the visualization of present-day vegetation distribution and pollen distribution supports the conclusions derived from palynological analyses. The refined geodata are returned back to the scientific community by using online data publication portals. Data were made citeable by assigning persistent identifiers (DOI) and were published through the German National Library for Science and Technology (TIB Hannover, Hannover, Germany).

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Acknowledgements

The project ‘High Resolution CONTINENTal Paleoclimate Record in Lake Baikal, Siberia’ was supported by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Programme (Contract EVK2-2000-00057). The project ‘Publication and citation of scientific and technical data’ is supported by the German Science Foundation, Div. Libraries and Information Systems (LIS4-55495(1) Hamburg BIB 46 Hhmpi 01). B. Heim gratefully acknowledges support by the ‘Program for Equal Opportunities for Women in Research’ granted by the Senate of Berlin, Germany. We would like to thank E. Thamó-Bózsó, Geological Institute of Hungary for the heavy mineral analysis. We are grateful to S. Swiercz from the hydrogeological working group of Prof. Peckdeger (Free University of Berlin, Germany) and S. Schneider, A. Schulze, G. Dachnowski, F. Kramer, P. Burgess and the technical staff of the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam Data Centre for their contributions to the Baikal GIS. We are also indebted to two anonymous reviewers for their reviews and suggestions which improved this manuscript.

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  1. Climate Dynamics and Sediments, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    Birgit Heim & Hedi Oberhänsli

  2. Data Centre, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    Jens Klump

  3. Geology Department, Clays and Paleoclimate, University of Liège, 4000, Liege, Belgium

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Acronyms

DCW

Digital Chart of the World (ESRI product)

1DFG

Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (German Science Foundation); 1project ‘Chemical, isotopic, and mineralogical proxy data for eolian input into the Lake Baikal system during the last 150 ka’

EAWAG

Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Switzerland

ESRI

Environmental Systems Research Institute

FAO

Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations

GEOPASS

Geochemistry, Particle Formation and Sediment Sources of Lake Baikal

GMT

Generic Mapping Tools

IIASA

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

INTAS

International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union

RCMG

Renard Centre of Marine Geology, Ghent, Belgium

USGS

United States Geological Survey

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DOIs are resolved to URLs through any Handle.Net server. DOI-Prefixes are listed under http://dx.doi.org/. Use, for example, http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/GFZ.SDDB.1202/.

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Heim, B., Klump, J., Oberhänsli, H. et al. Assembly and concept of a web-based GIS within the paleolimnological project CONTINENT (Lake Baikal, Russia). J Paleolimnol 39, 567–584 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-007-9131-0

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