MagIC progress and plans - Anthony Koppers - 2021 MagIC Workshop (1/20/21)
Channel: Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC)
Date: 2021-01-22

"MagIC progress and plans" by Anthony Koppers, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University.

Talk presented at the virtual 2021 MagIC Workshop (https://earthref.org/events/MAGIC/2021/) - Rock and Paleomagnetism through Time and Space. Jan 19th-21st, 2021.

Abstract:
The Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC) data repository (https://earthref.org/MagIC) for the paleo-, geo-, and rock magnetic communities isgathering momentum as more scientists contribute their research and more contributions include measurements. Here we present recent progress made by MagIC and our plans to expand upon these improvements.

In the last year (including private datasets in preparation), MagIC had 62 new contributors (more than double the previous year) uploading data for 220 unique publications including over 50k sites, 50k experiments, and over 2 million measurements. MagIC started accepting condensed MagIC text format files resulting in over 3 billion new raster measurements from XPEEM and SQUID Microscopy experiments. EarthRef (https://earthref) launched a JupyterHub (https://jupyterhub.earthref.org) server for running PmagPy (https://github.com/PmagPy/PmagPy) online with a persistent workspace. MagIC began publishing JSON-LD schema.org structured metadata, which is being indexed by EarthCube’s GeoCODES and Data Discovery Studio. MagIC transitioned to using EarthRef’s Framework for Integrated Earth Science and Technology Applications (FIESTA) API (https://api.earthref.org) and extended its structured metadata coverage. GFZ Data Services, the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) and Google Dataset Search began indexing these structured metadata from the minted Data DOIs in DataCite. 

MagIC intends to capitalize on this momentum by supporting laboratories and researchers integrating MagIC early in their scientific workflow with FIESTA API uploads into private workspaces. More frequent and more complete repositories will require upgraded hardware, so the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS) at Oregon State University recently purchased a 3-node Dell PowerEdge R6525 server cluster (each node with 48 cores, 128GB of RAM, and 5.3TB on RAID) for hosting Elasticsearch and EarthRef FIESTA instances. As MagIC continues to improve the user experience and FAIR compliance, it is becoming more clear that these datasets depend on data (e.g. radiometric dating results) being available in other FAIR compliant community repositories. EarthRef intends to use lessons learned with MagIC to help these other communities build FAIR repositories on the FIESTA infrastructure.