Open geoscience data infrastructure
Microbialites Database Project
A community-built effort to describe microbialite biosignatures with a shared vocabulary, searchable data, and open scientific workflows.
Explore the projectThis site is the public home for project updates, documentation, working group materials, controlled vocabulary development, and schema resources for the Microbialites Database.
Community Working Group
Open sessions invite sedimentologists, geobiologists, data scientists, and astrobiology researchers into the design process.
View meetingsControlled Vocabulary
The project uses a non-genetic descriptive framework for microbialite observations across scales.
Browse resourcesDatabase Documentation
Schema documentation and project notes describe how the database is being structured and shared.
Open schemaProject News
MBSP Open Working Group Meetings
Bi-weekly open working group meetings are underway to engage the research community in the development of the microbialites database. Sessions are generally held every other Friday, 10-11:00 a.m. Central Time.
Project Management in Basecamp
The team is using Basecamp for documents about code, governance, data ingestion policies, controlled vocabulary, and related planning before selected materials become public on the web application.