KNB Data Repository

The KNB Data Repository is an international repository intended to facilitate ecological, environmental and earth science research in the broadest senses. For scientists, the KNB Data Repository is an efficient way to share, discover, access and interpret complex ecological, environmental, earth science, and sociological data and the software used to create and manage those data. Due to rich contextual information provided with data in the KNB, scientists are able to integrate and analyze data with less effort. The data originate from a highly-distributed set of field stations, laboratories, research sites, and individual researchers. The KNB supports rich, detailed metadata to promote data discovery as well as automated and manual integration of data into new projects. The KNB supports a rich set of modern repository services, including the ability to assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) so data sets can be confidently referenced in any publication, the ability to track the versions of datasets as they evolve through time, and metadata to establish the provenance relationships between source and derived data.

KNB数据仓库系一项旨在广泛促进生态学、环境学以及地球科学研究的国际性数据存储库。对于科学家而言，KNB数据仓库成为了一种高效的数据共享、发现、访问与解读复杂生态学、环境学、地球科学和社会学数据及其创建与管理所用软件的手段。鉴于KNB中伴随数据提供的丰富上下文信息，科学家得以以较小的努力实现数据的整合与分析。数据源自广泛分布的野外站点、实验室、研究基地以及个人研究者。KNB支持丰富的详细元数据，以促进数据发现以及数据的自动化和手动整合至新项目之中。KNB提供了一套丰富的现代存储库服务，包括分配数字对象标识符（DOIs）的能力，以便数据集能够在任何出版物中得到自信的引用，追踪数据集随时间演变的版本，以及建立源数据与衍生数据之间溯源关系的元数据。