Datasets in PANGAEA may be archived as stand-alone publications of data (e.g., https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.753658) or as supplements to an article (e.g., https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.846130). Data can be submitted to and published in PANGAEA with access restrictions in place for a predefined period (until article publication, or during an embargo period).
Metadata must be submitted together with the data. Minimal requirements are:
- dataset Author(s)
- PI, dataset title
- MOSAiC device operation ID(s) / Event labels associated with individual data / data files
- related institute(s) or publication(s))
Any documentation (e.g., MOSAiC Standard operating procedures, MSOPs) helping to understand the data can and should be linked to the dataset(s). If no persistent link to the documents can be provided, PANGAEA can archive the documents permanently alongside the data.
The granularity of the data is up to the author(s) of the dataset. Lower-granularity datasets can be combined in a (time-)series collection dataset as in https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.873032. During submission (https://www.pangaea.de/submit/), the connection with MOSAiC has to be clearly stated in the Label Field of the Data Submission ("MOSAiC"). The MOSAiC Project ID (for the Polarstern expedition this is "AWI_PS122_00") is internally associated as a grant number of the MOSAiC project and does not have to be inserted in the submission form additionally.
The MOSAiC Device operation ID(s) / Events list is available after the end of each leg from PANGAEA page https://www.pangaea.de/expeditions/byproject/MOSAiC (can be found for viewing or download under "Event list: " link).
Within the data table, parameters (table header) should be submitted with full names and units. Data submitted in the form of videos, photos, geoTIFF, shape files, netCDF, sgy, etc. will be archived as is (e.g., https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.865445).
More information on data submission can be found in https://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/Data_submission.
If a published dataset needs to be updated, PANGAEA will upload a new version of this dataset, with new documentation and complete metadata (clearly providing information on the changes between the versions). Both versions can be linked but will have their own permanent DOI.