https://www.earthmagazine.org/tags/digitizing-earth/ Recent content in Digitizing Earth on EARTH Magazine Hugo en-US American Geosciences Institute. All rights reserved. Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:51:03 -0400 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/rescuing-data-dark/ Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:51:03 -0400 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/rescuing-data-dark/ <p>Along with the proliferation of techniques and technologies to deal with Big Data &mdash; the large volumes of data coming in from global sensors and satellites that can require supercomputers to crunch &mdash; geoscientists are also addressing the collection and integration of what could be termed small (or mainstream) data.</p> https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/digitizing-earth-developing-cyberinfrastructure-geosciences/ Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:11:36 -0400 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/digitizing-earth-developing-cyberinfrastructure-geosciences/ <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/digitizing-earth-developing-cyberinfrastructure-geosciences/NICL_Freezer.jpg" alt="One of the goals of the geoinformatics community is to create a digital environment to support the curation and sharing of physical samples — like ice cores at the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, and fossils at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. NICL" loading="eager" decoding="async"> <figcaption>One of the goals of the geoinformatics community is to create a digital environment to support the curation and sharing of physical samples — like ice cores at the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, and fossils at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. NICL</figcaption> </figure> <p>A glance into a geoscientist&rsquo;s office will usually reveal fossils, rocks, old maps and field notebooks, pieces of cores or other samples crowding every available surface. Likewise, a peek behind the scenes at the collections of museums like the <a href="http://www.mnh.si.edu/">Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History</a> in Washington, D.C., or the <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/">Natural History Museum in London</a>, reveals innumerable earth science-related specimens. And, in dozens of geologic repositories around the country lay thousands of kilometers of rock, sediment, seafloor and ice cores.</p>