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\section{A flexible container for paleoclimate data}  Paleoclimate observations come in many varieties; standardizing the data and providing the framework to encode meaning to the parameters and metadata requires a flexible, and extensible format. The linked data variety of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON-LD), provides a lightweight, and human-readable solution to this problem. JSON-LD is almost infinitely customizable, here we present conventions for Linked Paleo Data (LiPD), which utilizes JSON-LD and provides a structure that is common to the overwhelming majority (if not all) of paleoclimate observational datasets. Despite their variety, all paleoclimate datasets share the same major features.  \begin{enumerate}