GEOFON

GEOFON has over 100TB of capacity for seismic data. We welcome your SEED-based data in our archive.

Services we offer

• Secure long-term archiving of your SEED-based seismic waveform data. There will be at least two copies of your data.
• Archiving and open access in line with GFZ's guidelines (Grundsätze zum Umgang mit Forschungsdaten [PDF], March 2016).
• Delivery of your data and metadata to clients via FDSN web services, and more. See Waveform Access.
• Integration into the European Integrated Data Archive (EIDA) if desired.
• Assistance with preparing, and if desired, minting, a Digital Object Identifer (DOI) for your network (with library staff).
• In conjunction with GFZ library staff, assistance preparing a data report describing your data set, including more station information, availability, spectral information and more. This can form the base of a document such as the GFZ Scientific Technical Report STR. Our report generator tool may help you in this task.
• Serving as a point of contact for your data set.

Contact us to discuss your special needs.

Resources for contributors

• References related to DOI production:

  1. Evans, P. L., Hemmleb, S, and C. Haberland (2021). DOI Creation Guidelines for Seismic Network Operators at GEOFON Revision 0.10 (16 March 2021). HTML, PDF
  2. DataCite Metadata Working Group Metadata Schema (Version 4.0, 2016). doi:10.5438/0012
  3. FDSN: FDSN recommendations for seismic network DOIs and related FDSN services, Version 1.0 (21 July 2014). Also doi:10.7914/D11596 [points to version dated "14 May 2014"].
  4. DataCite search interface
     • list of GEOFON-generated DOI
     • resolution statistics for GEOFON-generated DOI.
  5. Indexing by EUDAT's B2FIND.

• Preparing data for contribution to GEOFON

  • Acceptance criteria for new data sets
  • GEOFON (2020). To Do Liste für die Datenübertragung an das GEOFON-Archiv (German).
  • GEOFON (2020). To Do List for transferring data to the GEOFON Archive .
• Data policy (in preparation)