Repository details
Center for Integrated Earth System Information
Name of repository
Center for Integrated Earth System Information
Additional name(s)
- CIESIN
Repository URL
Subject(s)
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Empirical Social Research
- Communication Sciences
- Political Science
- Life Sciences
- Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine
- Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine
- Soil Sciences
- Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Sociology
- Natural Sciences
- Geosciences
- Geography
- Human Geography
- Engineering Sciences
- Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Security and Dependability, Operating, Communication and Distributed Systems
- Construction Engineering and Architecture
- Construction Engineering and Architecture
- Urbanism, Spatial Planning, Transportation and Infrastructure Planning, Landscape Planning
Description
CIESIN's mission is to harness cutting edge geospatial technologies to support integrated analysis of the human-environment system and to empower decision-making through collaborative research, teaching, and data production, stewardship and dissemination.
Contact(s)
- administrative: https://ciesin.columbia.edu/people
- administrative: ciesin.info@ciesin.columbia.edu
Keyword(s)
- GIS
- census data
- climate change
- database design
- digital archiving
- ecology
- environmental assessment
- environmental health
- environmental indicators
- environmental treaties
- global environmental change
- informal settlements
- land use
- metadata management
- natural hazards
- natural hazards
- population
- poverty
- remote sensing
- urban areas
Repository size
The archive has 6 TB of data
Repository type(s)
- disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
Research data repository language(s)
- English
Data and/or service provider
- serviceProvider
Dates
Started
1998
Institutions (1)
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- general
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1998
Policies (1)
Policy name
Database access
Type of access to research data repository
open
Data access (2)
Type of access to data
open
Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
- registration
Data licenses (2)
Data license
Data license
Data upload (1)
Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
- registration
Persistent identifier system(s)
- DOI
Versioning
yes
Enhanced publication
yes
Quality management
yes
Metadata standards (1)
Remarks
Remarks
The CIESIN archive is managed by the CAFE collection team at the Harvard Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/CIESIN)
Entry date
2012-02-11
Last update
2026-03-12
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