Community-Supported Data Repositories in Paleobiology: A ‘Middle Tail’ Between the Geoscientific and Informatics Communities
John W Williams1, Allan C Ashworth2, Julio L Betancourt3, Brian Bills4, Jessica Blois5, Robert Booth6, Philip Buckland7, Donald Charles8, Ben Brandon Curry9, Simon J Goring10, Margaret M Lang11, Eric C Grimm12, Russell W Graham4, Alison J Smith13 and Neotoma Paleoecology Database Team, (1)University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)North Dakota State University Main Campus, Geosciences, Fargo, ND, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Science and Decisions Center, Reston, VA, United States, (4)Penn State, University Park, PA, United States, (5)University of California Merced, School of Natural Sciences, Merced, CA, United States, (6)Lehigh University, Earth and Environmental Science, Bethlehem, PA, United States, (7)Umea University, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umea, Sweden, (8)Drexel University, Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (9)Illinois State Geological Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States, (10)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, WI, United States, (11)University of Oregon, Department of Geosciences, Eugene, United States, (12)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (13)Kent State University Kent Campus, Department of Geology, Kent, OH, United States
