The Extending Ocean Drilling Pursuits (eODP) Project: Synthesizing Scientific Ocean Drilling Data

For over 50 years, cores recovered from ocean basins have generated fossil, lithologic, and chemical archives that revolutionized fields within the earth sciences. Although scientific drilling (SOD) data are openly available following each expedition, formats for these heterogeneous. Furthermore, lithological, chronological, paleobiological typically separated into different repositories, limiting researchers' abilities to discover analyze integrated SOD sets. Emphasis Earth Sciences on Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) Data Principles establishment of community-led databases provide a pathway unite further harness potential investments made in offshore drilling. Here, we describe workflow compiling, cleaning, standardizing key records, importing them Paleobiology Database Macrostrat, systems with versatile, open distribution mechanisms. These efforts being carried out by extending Ocean Drilling Pursuits (eODP) project. eODP has processed all one repository, along numerous other sets were never deposited database; manually transcribed original reports. This compiled set contains 79,899 lithological units 1,125 holes 422 sites. Over 26,000 fossil-bearing samples, 5,378 taxonomic entries 13 biological groups, placed this lithologic spatiotemporal framework. All information is via GitHub Macrostrat's application programming interface, which renders retrievable variety parameters, including age, site, lithology.