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Getting Started |
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There are several ways to use
this metabase. First, you can just surf through the data. If you are
inspired and have a background in a field related to human origins you can add your information to make the metabase stronger. It is
already the largest database of paleoanthropology localities in the world,
but it becomes even more robust with use. |
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All data posted are public. They
are accesible either by directly downloading the data from the site or you
can just use the connection data (also public) to have your own website or
data interface to connect to the metabase dynamically. |
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All professional anthropologists,
geologists, and paleontologists are invited to collaborate. Interested people
with backgrounds in human origins are also invited to take part. Please send
an email requesting to be added to the contributor list to Prof. Henry
Gilbert, California State University, East Bay. |
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Henry Gilbert |
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Users can rate locality data on
a star-based system. Registered users can add localities or update locality
data. Updating locality data does not erase the data posted by other users.
Rather, is allow multiple users to add locality data and displays the data
from the different users for comparison. |
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The
data structure and connection information can be found under settings and
administration. It is licensed so that anyone may freely use the data
non-commercially as long as they attribute the Human Origins Locality Data
Collective. |