Anwendung von OPUS für Forschungsdaten – das Beispiel eines außeruniversitären Forschungsinstituts

OPUS wurde als Dokumentenserver konzipiert und ursprünglich nicht für den Nachweis von Forschungsdaten angelegt. Mit vergleichsweise geringem Aufwand können dennoch Forschungsdaten als Supplementary Material zu Zeitschriftenbeiträgen publiziert werden. Auch reine Forschungsdatenpublikationen können via OPUS veröffentlicht werden, selbst wenn die gegenwärtig auf Textpublikationen zugeschnittene Metadatenerfassung weniger gut für die Beschreibung reiner Forschungsdaten geeignet ist. Ein Unterschied zu anderen Systemen und Anwendungsszenarien besteht in der Beschränkung, großvolumige Daten nicht innerhalb von OPUS selbst vorzuhalten. Der für das institutionelle Repository des Zuse-Instituts Berlin konzipierte pragmatische Lösungsansatz ist in OPUS ohne zusätzliche Programmierung umsetzbar und skaliert für beliebig große Forschungsdatensätze. Primarily, OPUS has been designed as a document server and originally was not intended to serve as a repository for research data. However, it is possible to publish research data as supplementary material to a journal article with comparatively simple means. Independent data sets may also be published via OPUS, although the metadata description in OPUS, which has been customized for text publications, is less suited for the description of research data. What makes it different from other systems, however, is the limitation of storage capacity. Large data volumes should not be stored in OPUS. The pragmatic approach designed for the institutional repository of the Zuse Institute Berlin can be implemented in OPUS without additional programming, and is well suited for data sets of any size

Untersuchungen zur Kohlenstoffisotopenzusammensetzung von terrestrischem organischen Material des jüngeren Paläozoikums

Aus der Kohlenstoffisotopenanalyse von Pflanzenfossilien kann für das Paläozoikum zwischen dem höheren Silur (425Ma) und der Perm-Trias Grenze (251Ma) eine neue, zusammenhängende d13CTOM-Kurve präsentiert werden. Aus den Daten geht ein Anstieg der d13CTOM-Werte von Werten um -25 im Silur und Devon auf Werte um -23 im Unterperm hervor. Darin spiegelt sich die vermehrte Ablagerung von isotopisch leichtem organischen Material wider. Es gibt keine signifikanten Hinweise auf diagenetische Alteration des organischen Materials. Unterschiede in den Absolutwerten des d13CTOM gehen auf eine unterschiedliche Zusammensetzung der Atmosphäre zurück. Aus berechneten Isotopenkurven geht hervor, dass die Isotopenfraktionierung D im Verlauf des Paläozoikums deutlich variierte. Ein Maximum im Permokarbon wird auf den physiologischen Einfluss der erhöhten O2-Konzentration zurückgeführt. Eine Berechung des O2/CO2-Verhältnisses in der paläozoischen Atmosphäre deutet auf ein Maximum im Permokarbon hin

Personal Digital Archiving: Eine neue Aufgabe für Öffentliche und Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken

Die Sicherung und längerfristige Archivierung persönlich relevanter Dokumente und Dateien, in der Fachliteratur als Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) bezeichnet, ist eine für Privatpersonen zunehmend wichtiger werdende Aufgabe. Praktische Anleitungen und weiterführende Hinweise zur Umsetzung dieser Aufgabe gibt die auf unterschiedliche Nutzer:innenperspektiven ausgerichtete Website meinDigitalesArchiv.de, die seit 2020 von der nestor-AG PDA bereitgestellt wird. Mit den Informationen dieser Website können und sollten Bibliotheken und andere Einrichtungen, die Informationskompetenz vermitteln, Privatpersonen für die Sicherung ihrer persönlichen digitalen Daten sensibilisieren und schulen. Mit der Umsetzung dieser Aufgabe können Öffentliche wie Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken zur Sicherung auch gesamtgesellschaftlich relevanter Erinnerungsbausteine beitragen.The backup and long-term archiving of personally relevant documents and files, referred to in the literature as Personal Digital Archiving (PDA), is an increasingly important task for private individuals. The website meinDigitalesArchiv.de, which has been made available by the nestor-AG PDA since 2020, provides practical instructions and further information on how to implement this task and is geared towards different user perspectives. With the information on this website, libraries and other institutions that teach information literacy can and should sensitise and train private individuals to secure their personal digital data. By implementing this task, both public and academic libraries can contribute to securing memory building blocks that are relevant to society as a whole.Peer Reviewe

The prospectivity of a potential shale gas play: An example from the southern Pennine Basin (central England, UK)

During the Serpukhovian (late Mississippian) Stage, the Pennine Basin, now underlying much of northern England, consisted of a series of interlinked sub-basins that developed in response to the crustal extension north of the Hercynic orogenic zone. For the current study, mudstone samples of the Morridge Formation from two sub-basins located in the south-eastern part of the Pennine Basin were collected from the Carsington Dam Reconstruction C3 Borehole (Widmerpool Gulf sub-basin) and the Karenight 1 Borehole (Edale Gulf sub-basin). Detailed palynological analyses indicate that aside from the dominant (often 90% or more) heterogeneous amorphous organic matter (AOM), variable abundances of homogeneous AOM and phytoclasts are present. To complement the palynological dataset, a suite of geochemical and mineralogical techniques were applied to evaluate the prospectivity of these potentially important source rocks. Changes in the carbon isotope composition of the bulk organic fraction (δ13COM) suggest that the lower part (Biozone E2a) of Carsington DR C3 is markedly more influenced by terrigenous kerogen than the upper part of the core (Biozones E2a3–E2b1). The Karenight 1 core yielded more marine kerogen in the lower part (Marine Bands E1–E2b) than the upper part (Marine Band E2b). Present day Rock-Eval™ Total Organic Carbon (TOC) surpasses 2% in most samples from both cores, a proportion suggested by Jarvie (2012) that defines prospective shale gas reservoirs. However, when the pyrolysable component that reflects the generative kerogen fraction is considered, very few samples reach this threshold. The kerogen typing permits for the first time the calculation of an original hydrogen index (HIo) and original total organic carbon (TOCo) for Carboniferous mudstones of the Pennine Basin. The most prospective part of Carsington DR C3 (marine bands E2b1–E2a3) has an average TOCo of 3.2% and an average HIo of 465 mg/g TOCo. The most prospective part of Karenight 1 (242.80–251.89 m) is characterized by an average TOCo of 9.3% and an average HIo of 504 mg/g TOCo. Lastly, X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis confirms that the siliceous to argillaceous mudstones contain a highly variable carbonate content. The palynological, geochemical and mineralogical proxies combined indicate that marine sediments were continuously being deposited throughout the sampled intervals and were punctuated by episodic turbiditic events. The terrestrial material, originating from the Wales-Brabant High to the south of the Pennine Basin, was principally deposited in the Widmerpool Gulf, with much less terrigenous organic matter reaching the Edale Gulf. As a consequence, the prospective intervals are relatively thin, decimetre-to meter-scale, and further high resolution characterization of these intervals is required to understand variability in prospectivitiy over these limited intervals

A Mississippian black shale record of redox oscillation in the Craven Basin, UK

Early diagenetic redox oscillation processes have been rarely recognised in the ancient rock record but potentially exert an important control on mineral authigenesis, hydrocarbon prospectivity and supply of metals and/or reduced S as part of associated mineral systems. The upper unit of the Mississippian Bowland Shale Formation is a candidate record of diagenetic redox oscillation processes because it was deposited under a relatively high sediment accumulation rate linked to a large delta system, and under dominantly anoxic and intermittently sulphidic bottom-water conditions. In order to characterise the syngenetic and early diagenetic processes, sedimentological and geochemical data were integrated through the Upper Bowland Shale at three sites in the Craven Basin (Lancashire, UK). Organic matter (OM) comprises a mixture of Type II, II-S, II/III and III OM. ‘Redox zones’ are defined by patterns of Fe-speciation and redox-sensitive trace element enrichment and split into two groups. ‘Sulphidic’ zones (EUX, AN-III, AN-I and AN-IT) represent sediments deposited under conditions of at least intermittently active sulphate-reduction in bottom-waters. ‘Non-sulphidic’ zones (OX-RX, OX-F and OX) represent sediments deposited under non-sulphidic (oxic to ferruginous anoxic) bottom-waters. Operation of a shelf-to-basin ‘reactive Fe’ (FeHR) shuttle, moderated by sea level fluctuation and delta proximity, controlled the position and stability of redoxclines between zones of Fe and sulphate reduction, and methanogenesis. Early diagenetic redoxclines were capable of migration through the shallow sediment column relatively quickly, in response to sea level fluctuation. Preservation of syngenetic and early diagenetic geochemical signals shows redoxclines between Fe and sulphate reduction, and the upper boundary of sulphate-methane transition zone, were positioned within decimetres (i.e., 10 s cm) of seabed. Falling sea level and increasing FeHR supply is recognised as a switch from zones EUX (high sea level), AN-III and ultimately AN-I and AN-IT (low sea level). Zone AN-I defines the operation of ‘redox oscillation’, between zones of Fe and sulphate reduction in shallow porewaters, associated with enhanced degradation of OM and complete dissolution of primary carbonate. Preservation of OM and carbonate, in this system, was a function of changing bottom and pore water redox processes. Redox oscillation operated in a siliciclastic, prodeltaic environment associated with a relatively high sediment accumulation rate and high loadings of labile organic matter and metal oxides. These findings are important for understanding Late Palaeozoic black shales in the context of hydrocarbon and mineral systems

HE-LHC: The High-Energy Large Hadron Collider: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 4

In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee), the corresponding 100 km tunnel infrastructure, as well as the physics opportunities of these two colliders, and a high-energy LHC, based on FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the third volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the hadron collider FCC-hh. It summarizes the FCC-hh physics discovery opportunities, presents the FCC-hh accelerator design, performance reach, and staged operation plan, discusses the underlying technologies, the civil engineering and technical infrastructure, and also sketches a possible implementation. Combining ingredients from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high-luminosity LHC upgrade and adding novel technologies and approaches, the FCC-hh design aims at significantly extending the energy frontier to 100 TeV. Its unprecedented centre-of-mass collision energy will make the FCC-hh a unique instrument to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, offering great direct sensitivity to new physics and discoveries

FCC-ee: The Lepton Collider: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 2

In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched, as an international collaboration hosted by CERN. This study covers a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee) and an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), which could, successively, be installed in the same 100 km tunnel. The scientific capabilities of the integrated FCC programme would serve the worldwide community throughout the 21st century. The FCC study also investigates an LHC energy upgrade, using FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the second volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the electron-positron collider FCC-ee. After summarizing the physics discovery opportunities, it presents the accelerator design, performance reach, a staged operation scenario, the underlying technologies, civil engineering, technical infrastructure, and an implementation plan. FCC-ee can be built with today’s technology. Most of the FCC-ee infrastructure could be reused for FCC-hh. Combining concepts from past and present lepton colliders and adding a few novel elements, the FCC-ee design promises outstandingly high luminosity. This will make the FCC-ee a unique precision instrument to study the heaviest known particles (Z, W and H bosons and the top quark), offering great direct and indirect sensitivity to new physics

HE-LHC: The High-Energy Large Hadron Collider

In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee), the corresponding 100 km tunnel infrastructure, as well as the physics opportunities of these two colliders, and a high-energy LHC, based on FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the third volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the hadron collider FCC-hh. It summarizes the FCC-hh physics discovery opportunities, presents the FCC-hh accelerator design, performance reach, and staged operation plan, discusses the underlying technologies, the civil engineering and technical infrastructure, and also sketches a possible implementation. Combining ingredients from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high-luminosity LHC upgrade and adding novel technologies and approaches, the FCC-hh design aims at significantly extending the energy frontier to 100 TeV. Its unprecedented centre-of-mass collision energy will make the FCC-hh a unique instrument to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, offering great direct sensitivity to new physics and discoveries

Die geowissenschaftliche Datenbank GeoRef und die Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Geowissenschaften im Vergleich

Die Bibliografische Datenbank GeoRef und die Virtuelle Fachbibliothek GEO-LEO eignen sich bei paralleler Nutzung für eine weitgehend erschöpfende Informationsrecherche im Bereich Geowissenschaften. Während GeoRef im Wesentlichen als Nachweisinstrument für Zeitschriftenartikel dient, werden bei GEO-LEO Bibliothekskataloge abgefragt und digitale Volltexte verfügbar gemacht. Der direkte Dokumentzugriff und die Verzeichnung von Webseiten, ein Instrument zur Erkundung von Wissen durch systematische Darstellung von Einzeldisziplinen und eine Publikationsplattform bei GEO-LEO ergänzen sich mit hervorragender Erschließung und großer thematischer Abdeckung bei GeoRef.stud