OCTOPUS: an open cosmogenic isotope and luminescence database

Codilean, Alexandru T.; Munack, Henry; Cohen, Timothy J.; Saktura, Wanchese M.; Gray, Andrew; Mudd, Simon M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2123-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2123-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2123-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

Brief communication

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30 Nov 2018

Brief communication |

| 30 Nov 2018

OCTOPUS: an open cosmogenic isotope and luminescence database

Alexandru T. Codilean, Henry Munack, Timothy J. Cohen, Wanchese M. Saktura, Andrew Gray, and Simon M. Mudd

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Filling in the blank on WA', Ingrid Ward, 08 Mar 2018
- AC1: 'Filling in the blank...', Alexandru T. Codilean, 12 Mar 2018
SC2: 'comment', Zsófia Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, 13 Mar 2018
- AC2: 'The spirit of OCTOPUS', Alexandru T. Codilean, 16 Mar 2018
RC1: 'Invited review of 'OCTOPUS: An Open Cosmogenic Isotope and Luminescence Database'', Greg Balco, 19 May 2018
- AC4: 'Response to reivew by Greg Balco', Alexandru T. Codilean, 04 Jul 2018
SC3: 'Last-minute thoughts in the OCTOPUS system and the manuscript', Sebastian Kreutzer, 31 May 2018
- AC3: 'Response to short comment', Alexandru T. Codilean, 20 Jun 2018
  - SC12: 'Response', Sebastian Kreutzer, 20 Jun 2018
SC4: 'Short comment of database usability', Todd A. Ehlers, 08 Jun 2018
- SC5: 'Follow up comment', Todd A. Ehlers, 08 Jun 2018
  - SC6: 'The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.', Alexandru T. Codilean, 08 Jun 2018
    - SC7: 'Thanks', Todd A. Ehlers, 08 Jun 2018
      - SC8: 'A proper attempt at responding...', Alexandru T. Codilean, 08 Jun 2018
        
        RC2: 'Reviewing the data themselves', Greg Balco, 09 Jun 2018
        
        SC10: 'Responding to Greg...', Alexandru T. Codilean, 11 Jun 2018
      - SC9: 'P.S.', Alexandru T. Codilean, 09 Jun 2018
SC11: 'Comment on Codilean et al. ms', Vincent Godard, 11 Jun 2018

Short summary

OCTOPUS is a database of cosmogenic radionuclide and luminescence measurements in fluvial sediment made available to the research community via an Open Geospatial Consortium compliant web service. OCTOPUS and its associated data curation framework provide the opportunity for researchers to reuse previously published but otherwise unusable CRN and luminescence data. This delivers the potential to harness old but valuable data that would otherwise be lost to the research community.