Neotoma Computing Resources
These are resources for individuals working with paleoecological data. This site includes links to:
- The most recent State of the Database report including information about recent data contributions, and outstanding issues within the database itself.
- Database documentation
- The Neotoma Database Schema
- Neotoma Postgres Database Manual
- RMarkdown and Jupyter notebooks:
- Simple workflows with
neotoma2showing how to search for and download data. This includes stratigraphic plots and plots of proportional change over time. - Complex workflows with
neotoma2showing how to build and add new chronologies to a record.
- Simple workflows with
- Neotoma API Documentation
- Neotoma Dataset Landing Pages
These tools are intended to help people work with paleoecological data, and an effort to communicate best-practices in the paleogeosciences. The repository includes fully realized workflows and more focused “cookbook” type elements.
This resource is linked to the GitHub repository for the Neotoma Database, and specifically to a Workbooks repository. We welcome contributions from all users. These contributions may include code or documentation, or feedback. Let us know how the workbooks worked for you!