THE REASON FOR DAHLI: Making the Holdings of Historic IPY Information Accessible to All Ruth Duerr and Allaina Wallace

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO Overview NSIDC – who we are Discovery and Access of Historic Literature from the IPYs (DAHLI)  Motivation  Big Picture  Proposal status  Accomplishments

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO Overview NSIDC – who we are Discovery and Access of Historic Literature from the IPYs (DAHLI)  Motivation  Big Picture  Proposal status  Accomplishments

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO National Snow and Ice Data Center To make fundamental contributions to cryospheric science and excel in managing data and disseminating information in order to advance understanding of the Earth system. International Data Activities Data Management and Distribution Research Outreach Our Mission

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO Institutional Relationships Part of the University of Colorado Within the CU Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Cryospheric and Polar Processes Division Chartered by NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. Affiliated with the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Part of the World Data Center system Funded by NASA, NOAA, NSF, and others at the project level

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO Major Programs NOAA at NSIDC and WDC for Glaciology, Boulder NASA Distributed Active Archive Center NSF Antarctic Glaciological Data Center NSF IPY at NSIDC - IPYDIS, CADIS, and ELOKA IARC Frozen Ground Data Center

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO Overview NSIDC – who we are Discovery and Access of Historic Literature from the IPYs (DAHLI)  Motivation  Big Picture  Proposal status  Accomplishments

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO DAHLI - Motivation Expectations of instant access Legacy materials have value  Scientific  Historical  Cultural Part of the mission of the World Data Center

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO DAHLI – Big Picture Creating an on-line gazetteer of who has what and where Creating a searchable bibliographic database of records and literature from the three prior IPYs  These records are scattered around the world and many have never been cataloged Digitizing materials held at NSIDC and a variety of other facilities around the world based on advisory committee recommendations Allowing direct access to those materials that are or will be made available digitally (subject to usual copyright restrictions) Creating digital data sets from analog sources where appropriate

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO Glaciology DAHLI – On-Line Gazetteer

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO DAHLI – Searchable Database A merger of library style and data center style interfaces

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO DAHLI - Proposal Status NOAA Climate Database Modernization Proposal funding continues  Pays for materials digitization  Could pay for keying/OCR with QC of data sets deemed to be valuable  Negligible funding for NSIDC staff time & facilities

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO DAHLI - Proposal Status (continued) NSF IPY DAHLI proposal is still pending  Advisory committee  On-line gazetteer  Merged digital library/data center web presence  Intercontinental backup  Staff support

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO DAHLI – Accomplishments IPYPD agreed to extend their original plans to allow inclusion of materials from previous IPYs 53 books, technical reports, etc. have been scanned and QC’d; some materials sent back for rework Text bibliography created and posted to NSIDC DAHLI website ~1,300 IGY-related photos scanned to be added to the Glacier Photograph Database NSIDC holdings of IPY-related materials have been added to the IPYPD

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO DAHLI – Current Activities Climate Database Modernization Program  Continuing local digitization efforts  Contemplating whether to start extending program to partner holdings…

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO Examples

R. Duerr and A. Wallace, NSIDC, GSA 2007 – Denver, CO DAHLI – Future activities More NSIDC materials Solicit more IPY materials Online bibliography Update Pursue other grants