Pan2Applic – a tool to convert and compile PANGAEA output files

The software Pan2Applic is a tool to convert files or folders of files (ascii/tab-separated data files with or without metaheader), downloaded from PANGAEA via the search engine or the data warehouse to formats as used by applications, e.g. for visualization or further processing. It may also be used to convert files or zip-archives as downloaded from CD-ROM data collections, published in the WDC-MARE Reports series. Pan2Applic is distributed as freeware for the operating systems Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X and Linux.软件Pan2Applic是一款文件转换工具，可将通过搜索引擎或数据仓库从潘盖亚（PANGAEA）下载的单个文件或文件目录（包含或不含元数据头的ASCII/制表符分隔数据文件），转换为适配各类应用程序的格式，用于数据可视化或后续处理。该工具亦可用于转换从收录于WDC-MARE报告系列的CD-ROM数据集下载所得的文件或压缩归档文件。Pan2Applic以免费软件形式分发，支持微软Windows、苹果OS X及Linux操作系统。