The result of a collaboration between paleoclimatologists and experts in scientific and technical information, the paleoclimatology thesaurus, named Paleosaurus, describes and structures for the first time around 2000 concepts of the discipline, in French and English.
Intended to offer the scientific community a reference vocabulary, the thesaurus aims to facilitate the sharing of data and scientific productions in paleoclimatology on the web, thus responding to a need for standardization and training expressed by the community. Its lexical and normative characteristics comply with semantic web standards. This allows for the alignment of paleoclimatology concepts with international knowledge organization systems.
Paleosaurus was initiated by the Directorate of Libraries, Information, and Open Science of the University of Paris-Saclay and brought together information experts from the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information and paleoclimatologists from the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (teams Climag, GeoTrAc, Paleocean), the Geosciences Laboratory of the University of Paris-Saclay, and the Geosciences Montpellier Laboratory of the University of Montpellier.
This long adventure is now seeing its “almost” completion; “almost” because Paleosaurus is evolving, and all specialists in paleoclimatology can take up the tool, develop it, enhance it, and make it known.
Discover it! Paleosaurus is YOUR thesaurus!
Authors in alphabetic order : Banzet G., Bassinot F., … Daux V., …Hatté C., Kissel C., Penchenat T., …
Video presentation : https://f.io/mu9YNNGq
Article in HAL : https://universite-paris-saclay.hal.science/hal-04555209
‘Billet’ in CNRS INIST : https://www.inist.fr/nos-actualites/paleoclimat-corpus-data-istex/
Virtual poster coming at the ‘Climat et Impacts 2024’ workshop