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Recommended citation: Munack, Henry 1; Rehn, Emma 2; Saktura, Wanchese M. 3 & Codilean, Alexandru T. 4 (2023). OCTOPUS database documentation (online). https://octopus-db.github.io/documentation (accessed DD-MM-YYYY).

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A brief OCTOPUS database history

2025

• CRN-collection: Accompanying short communication “Updated CRN Denudation datasets in OCTOPUS v2.3” published in Geochronology. DOI: 10.5194/gchron-7-113-2025

• IPPD. Accompanying publication “Collaborative Effort Towards a FAIR and OPEN Indo-Pacific Pollen Database (IPPD)” published in Data Science Journal. DOI: 10.5334/dsj-2025-005

• SahulChar. Accompanying publication “The SahulCHAR Collection: A Palaeofire Database for Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand” published in Earth System Science Data. DOI:

2024

• OCTOPUS version v.2.3 deployed

• Tweaks to CRN collections 🍻 to include new data fields

• Coastal OSL and TL SahulSed collections 🍰 released

• OCTOPUS version v.2.2 deployed

• Major update on CRN collections 🍻 (INT collection, AUS collection)

• SahulChar collection 🔥 release (dataset)

• Indo-Pacific Pollen db (IPPD) 🏝️ release (dataset)

2023

• GitHub organization launched (https://github.com/octopus-db)

• Online documentation published (https://octopus-db.github.io/documentation/)

• Interactive database schema published (https://octopus-db.github.io/schema/)

• Database model altered so it can cope with multiple data from one and the same collection unit, e.g. a core (see global_UnitMaster table)

2022

• Zenodo community launched (https://zenodo.org/communities/octopus-database)

• OCTOPUS version v.2.1 deployed

• Major update on SahulArch collections 🔍 (descriptive publication)

2021

• OCTOPUS version v.2 deployed

OCTOPUS v.2 collection	n samples	DOI
Core collections
The CRN Denudation Australian collection		10.25900/mpr9-yn15
The CRN Denudation Global collection		10.25900/g76f-0h45
The SahulArch OSL collection		10.25900/ypr0-j711
The SahulArch Radiocarbon collection		10.25900/2mb4-rr36
The SahulArch TL collection		10.25900/xq40-t003
The SahulSed Aeolian OSL collection		10.25900/5jcw-tn50
The SahulSed Aeolian TL collection		10.25900/a2k9-kj43
The SahulSed Fluvial OSL collection		10.25900/p5ye-rn35
The SahulSed Fluvial TL collection		10.25900/2a76-vw55
The SahulSed Lacustrine OSL collection		10.25900/6hmv-zz61
The SahulSed Lacustrine TL collection		10.25900/32de-mj32
Partner collections
FosSahul collection		10.1038/s41597-019-0267-3
ExpAge collection		https://expage.github.io

2020

2019

2018

2017

• OCTOPUS version v.1 deployed

OCTOPUS v.1 collection	n samples	DOI
CRN Australia		10.4225/48/5a836cdfac9b5
CRN International		10.4225/48/5a8367feac9b2
OSL/TL Australia		10.4225/48/5a836db1ac9b6

2016

Footnotes

1

University of Wollongong, ORCID 0000-0002-3750-9674

2

James Cook University, ORCID 0000-0002-9097-0232

3

University of Wollongong, ORCID 0000-0002-7198-7776

4

University of Wollongong, ORCID 0000-0003-1895-5633