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UKOLN is based at the University of Bath.

PEG-BOARD: Palæoclimate & Environment Data Generation – Building Open Access to Research Data

PEG-BOARD is an 18-month JISC-funded project centred around the need to build flexible and open access infrastructure around palæoclimate and environment research data. This project is led by the University of Bristol, with UKOLN, the University of Leeds and the University of Southampton as partners.

Partners

  • UKOLN
  • The University of Leeds
  • The University of Southampton

Useful links

Contacts

  • Greg Tourte - Project Manager

Background information

The PEG-BOARD project is topic-led, focusing on management of palæoclimate data, an important research area today as a result of the worldwide focus on anthropocentric climate change. This data is presently reused by many communities: palæoclimate research, predictive climate models, oceanography, atmospheric and earth science, biology and ecology, mathematics, archæology, teaching in HE, and the media, publishing scientific communications for a global audience. The project focuses on enabling open access to historical climate data in a systematic, managed environment. PEG-BOARD explores the data management needs of a palæoclimate research group and the linked ecosystem of researchers, including named project partners and associates active in Earth Sciences (University of Leeds), Archæology (University of Southampton) and journalism/broadcasting (BBC). It examines identification of requirements, social, policy and technical, within and without the core institutions that make up BRIDGE, and on the adaptation (or development) and deployment of a pilot data management infrastructure.

Project outputs

Coming soon.