Paleoenvironmental studies and according information (data) are abundantly published and available in the scientific record. However,
GIS-based paleoenvironmental information and datasets are comparably rare. Here, we present an Open Science approach for creating
GIS-based data and maps of paleoenvironments, and Open Access publishing them in a web based Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI),
for access by the archaeology and paleoenvironment communities. We introduce an approach to gather and create GIS datasets from
published non-GIS based facts and information (data), such as analogous maps, textual information or figures in scientific publications.
These collected and created geo-datasets and maps are then published, including a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to facilitate scholarly
reuse and citation of the data, in a web based Open Access Research Data Management Infrastructure. The geo-datasets are additionally
published in an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards compliant SDI, and available for GIS integration via OGC Open Web
Services (OWS)
