IsoBank

IsoBank provides a community-driven open-access repository for stable isotope data to improve accessibility and promote collaborative engagement in interdisciplinary research.

Key Features:

• Web-accessible database: Supports a wide range of stable isotope research areas and interdisciplinary stable isotope research.
• Core metadata structure: Provides standardized metadata reporting across eco-geoinformatics landscapes.
• Community-driven development: Designed collaboratively by a multi-disciplinary group of over 40 analytical experts, stable isotope researchers, database managers, and web developers.

Scientific Applications:

• Interdisciplinary stable isotope research: Facilitates collaboration among users of stable isotopic data across physical and natural sciences disciplines.
• Educational opportunities: Supports learning and training in stable isotope methods and data use.
• Eco-geoinformatics: Standardizes metadata reporting and provides useful data resources across eco-geoinformatics landscapes.

Methodology:

IsoBank was implemented online in 2021 following collaborative design by a multi-disciplinary group of experts.