S2: Getting data in and out of WDC-MARE – short intense course for beginners and runaways

(M. Diepenbroek et al., Bremen)

WDC-MARE (in close conjunction with PANGAEA) is one of the world’s biggest archives and libraries for marine environmental scientific data. Since, in the users judgement, data bases do not always meet their eager expectations, this course intends to (1) communicate intuitive use of the search engine PANGAEA; (2) highlight the philosophy of good scientific practice in research and scholarship, as well as data publication (open access, digital object identifiers); and (3) exercise the efficient large-scale usage of the information system. Exercises, examples, paradigms, instructive cases, and illustrations, however, shall make up the major portion of the lesson.