The next question is not how to store it and to make it easily available to researchers. The question is how to make the relationship between these data sets visible. Climatic changes do not occur in confined regions at discrete moments in time, it is a long term process with local and global effects. If we want to study these changes within their context, we first need a good age approximation for these data, and secondly we need to be able to extract time slices from the data repository. These time slices can, and should be calculated dynamically, they shouldn't be stored.
Age models tend to change in time.
This mechanism could be, for example, coupled to a system, able to produce contour plots. Signal changes could be followed regionally and through time. There are many problems we have to solve. Ideally we should have reliable age models for every core, which we haven't for example. At least we've taken a careful first step by setting up a relational data repository, some time we have to take the next step.