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Find Data

Neotoma's community interacts with its data through the Explorer app, landing pages, Tilia software, and programming languages.

Explorer

The Neotoma Explorer app is a map-based method of querying Neotoma data which allows users to execute complex searches without requiring any coding knowledge. You may search here for datasets by combination of facets like dataset type, taxon abundance, time and space covered, and other fields.

Landing Pages

Neotoma also documents its holdings through landing pages concerning datasets, taxa, users, and constituent databases. The landing pages for individual datasets also represent the authoritative versions of data, linked to dataset DOIs. Through the landing page link you can find search tools to explore the data across different facets. 

Tilia

Tilia is a bespoke software developed by Eric Grimm which enables users to upload data to Neotoma, to query Neotoma data, and to create stratigraphic plots. More information and installation instructions can be found here.

Neotoma2

The Neotoma2 R package provides programmers in R the ability to programmatically download and analyze Neotoma data in a coding environment.

APIs

Neotoma data can be accessed in coding languages other than R (or extended in R) through direct interaction with public APIs which offer a range of endpoints for querying Neotoma data.

Local Database Snapshots

You can download local copies of the database from this page, which allows for direct interaction through SQL, in case your needs aren't met by the API endpoints.