Repository details

The Paleobiology Database

Name of repository
The Paleobiology Database
Additional name(s)
  • PaleoDB
  • PaleoBioDB
  • PBDB
Repository URL
https://paleobiodb.org/#/
Subject(s)
Description
The Paleobiology Database (PaleoBioDB) is a non-governmental, non-profit public resource for paleontological data. It has been organized and operated by a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, international group of paleobiological researchers. Its purpose is to provide global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data for organisms of all geological ages, as well data services to allow easy access to data for independent development of analytical tools, visualization software, and applications of all types. The Database’s broader goal is to encourage and enable data-driven collaborative efforts that address large-scale paleobiological questions.
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Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository size
90.757 references; 502.813 taxa; 970.476 opinions; 238.662 collections; 1.642.931 occurrences
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://paleobiodb.org/#/faq
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider
  • serviceProvider

Institutions (3)

Institution
Australian Research Council
Additional name(s)
  • ARC
Institution
Country
Australia
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2010
Institution
National Science Foundation
Additional name(s)
  • NSF
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Database licenses (1)

Database License
CC

Data access (2)

Type of access to data
open
Type of access to data
embargoed

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
CC
DataLicense
other

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • registration
  • feeRequired
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Data citation guideline
https://paleobiodb.org/#/faq/how-should-the-paleobiology-database-data-be-cited-
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (1)

Type
REST
Url
https://paleobiodb.org/data1.1/

Remarks

Remarks
The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) was founded in 1998 by John Alroy and Charles Marshall. Fossilworks provides query, download, and analysis tools that utilize the Paleobiology Database's large relational database assembled by hundreds of paleontologists from around the world. Fossilworks is managed by John Alroy at Maquarie University. As a publicly funded project, all code related to the Paleobiology Database is open source and can be found on Github. The Paleobiology Database is managed by the Executive Committee, which sets overall database policy, oversees matters related to the PaleoDB’s membership and access to data. The Committee consists of 12 members, including a Chair and a Secretary. The Chair is currently Mark D. Uhen and its Secretary is Jocelyn Sessa. Primary software development is actually being carried out at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the direction of Shanan Peters and Michael McClennen.
Entry date
2014-03-13
Last update
2025-02-14
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re3data.org: The Paleobiology Database; editing status 2025-02-14; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3KP67 last accessed: 2025-04-25