GeoEcoKorea (GEK) is committed to maintaining a robust and transparent data management framework. This document outlines our data management strategies in three key areas: 1) data scope & criteria, 2) database organization model, and 3) data sharing policies.
GEK exclusively includes peer-reviewed data from scientific journals, contributed by authors or their representatives with explicit consent. Since GEK's datasets consist of previously published data, they are not subject to embargo restrictions, ensuring immediate availability for research and collaboration.
GEK implements distinct data management systems for data from international and Korean local journals. International data must first be uploaded to the Neotoma DB, after which GEK will establish a link to it. All international data will be managed and stored by Neotoma's database system. In contrast, data from Korean-language publications will be curated in GEK's independent database (see the Entity-Relationship Diagram, ERD, on the right).
* GEK's data management system was developed based on Neotoma's framework as described in Williams and others (2018).
Williams, J.W., Grimm, E.C., ..., 2018. The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource. Quat. Res. 89, 156–177.https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.105
GEK upholds the principles of open science. Our data sharing policies are governed by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC-BY-NC 4.0).