TY - JOUR
T1 - Design, development, and implementation of IsoBank
T2 - A centralized repository for isotopic data
AU - Shipley, Oliver N.
AU - Dabrowski, Anna J.
AU - Bowen, Gabriel J.
AU - Hayden, Brian
AU - Pauli, Jonathan N.
AU - Jordan, Christopher
AU - Anderson, Lesleigh
AU - Bailey, Adriana
AU - Bataille, Clement P.
AU - Cicero, Carla
AU - Close, Hilary G.
AU - Cook, Craig
AU - Cook, Joseph A.
AU - Desai, Ankur R.
AU - Evaristo, Jaivime
AU - Filley, Tim R.
AU - France, Christine A.M.
AU - Jackson, Andrew L.
AU - Kim, Sora Lee
AU - Kopf, Sebastian
AU - Loisel, Julie
AU - Manlick, Philip J.
AU - McFarlin, Jamie M.
AU - McMeans, Bailey C.
AU - Connell, Tamsin C.O.
AU - Pilaar Birch, Suzanne E.
AU - Putman, Annie L.
AU - Semmens, Brice X.
AU - Stantis, Chris
AU - Stricker, Craig A.
AU - Szejner, Paul
AU - Trammell, Tara L.E.
AU - Uhen, Mark D.
AU - Weintraub-Leff, Samantha
AU - Wooller, Matthew J.
AU - Williams, John W.
AU - Yarnes, Christopher T.
AU - Vander Zanden, Hannah B.
AU - Newsome, Seth D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright: This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
PY - 2024/9
Y1 - 2024/9
N2 - Stable isotope data have made pivotal contributions to nearly every discipline of the physical and natural sciences. As the generation and application of stable isotope data continues to grow exponentially, so does the need for a unifying data repository to improve accessibility and promote collaborative engagement. This paper provides an overview of the design, development, and implementation of IsoBank (www.isobank.org), a community-driven initiative to create an open-access repository for stable isotope data implemented online in 2021. A central goal of IsoBank is to provide a web-accessible database supporting interdisciplinary stable isotope research and educational opportunities. To achieve this goal, we convened a multi-disciplinary group of over 40 analytical experts, stable isotope researchers, database managers, and web developers to collaboratively design the database. This paper outlines the main features of IsoBank and provides a focused description of the core metadata structure. We present plans for future database and tool development and engagement across the scientific community. These efforts will help facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration among the many users of stable isotopic data while also offering useful data resources and standardization of metadata reporting across eco-geoinformatics landscapes.
AB - Stable isotope data have made pivotal contributions to nearly every discipline of the physical and natural sciences. As the generation and application of stable isotope data continues to grow exponentially, so does the need for a unifying data repository to improve accessibility and promote collaborative engagement. This paper provides an overview of the design, development, and implementation of IsoBank (www.isobank.org), a community-driven initiative to create an open-access repository for stable isotope data implemented online in 2021. A central goal of IsoBank is to provide a web-accessible database supporting interdisciplinary stable isotope research and educational opportunities. To achieve this goal, we convened a multi-disciplinary group of over 40 analytical experts, stable isotope researchers, database managers, and web developers to collaboratively design the database. This paper outlines the main features of IsoBank and provides a focused description of the core metadata structure. We present plans for future database and tool development and engagement across the scientific community. These efforts will help facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration among the many users of stable isotopic data while also offering useful data resources and standardization of metadata reporting across eco-geoinformatics landscapes.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85195036720
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0295662
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0295662
M3 - Article
C2 - 39240878
AN - SCOPUS:85195036720
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 19
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 9 September
M1 - e0295662
ER -