MagIC Data Facility Update: Online Editing, Science-on-Schema.org 1.3 Headers, API Improvements, New MagIC Team, Three-Year Facility Grant, 2023 MagIC Workshop, Upload and Contributor Statistics, FIESTA Repository Expansion

The Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC) continues to make year-over-year improvements. MagIC has added online editing of datasets where changes can be made to your private contributions directly in the browser. MagIC has been active in the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Science-on-Schema.org cluster, writing the Temporal Coverage recommendation for geologic time. MagIC now conforms to the recently endorsed 1.3 Science-on-Schema.org guidelines which allows for comprehensive indexing by EarthCubes's GeoCODES and Google's dataset search. MagIC's API has been improved with better support for private contributions and errors are now returned during API dataset validation.

With a recent three-year facility on-boarding grant from NSF Geoinformatics, we are happy to announce the expansion of the MagIC Team with the addition of Nick Swanson-Hysell at UC Berkeley and Josh Feinberg, Max Brown, and Peat Solheid at the Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM). The Berkeley team will focus on implementing new PmagPy features including Pmag GUI functions, rock magnetic analysis, uncertainty propagation, Bayesian statistics. The IRM team will create export tools to produce MagIC text files for data acquired at the IRM, developing Python-based rock magnetism data analysis and plotting code, and creating Jupyter Notebooks to run on MagIC's JupyterHub server. Some other features MagIC will create include specialized subdomain database views, superuser private workspaces for labs and institutions, interoperability with other FIESTA based data repositories, and assisting labs with creating workflows that include uploading data to MagIC.

MagIC is planning an in-person workshop in La Jolla, California from Feb 28th to March 2nd, 2023. We will have scientific sessions and working sessions discussing MagIC related issues and technologies. MagIC continues to gain momentum with 166 new contributions from 64 contributors in the last year. Almost all new contributions now include measurement level data, a longstanding goal of MagIC. The development of two new data repositories using the underlying FIESTA technology that was created from experience with MagIC also has been funded by NSF EarthCube and this will help accelerate the development of new features for the family of FIESTA data repositories.