The SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management SCAR Cross-Linkages workshop Amsterdam, November 2005 Taco de Bruin JCADM Chief Officer SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
Data management background information JCADM Data management for the SCAR SRPs Issues and ideas SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
Definition of data management: To support science and maximize the value of data by preserving data for future (re-)use SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management Definition data management according to POGO: The primary objective of data management is to ensure timely, efficient and open access to the best possible data, metadata and associated products, for use and re-use throughout their life-cycle and to prevent loss of data and associated information
Data management concentric shell model SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management KNOWN ACCESSIBLE USABLE DATA First step: Inventories with data set descriptions: metadata
SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management The SCAR-COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management (JCADM) was established in 1997 To coordinate the development of the Antarctic Data Management System Recruitment of new National Antarctic Data Centres (NADC) Capacity building Advice SCAR and COMNAP on data issues Global inventory of Antarctic and Southern Ocean data set descriptions
SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management Argentina Celia Izquierdo Australia Kim Finney Belgium Maaike Vancauwenberghe BulgariaMiroslav Zanev Canada Peter Pulsifer Chile Patricia Vicuña, Ricardo Jaña China Zhu Jiangang Estonia Jüri Ivask Finland Arto Vitikka France Thierry Lemaire Germany Manfred Reinke India Vijayalaxmi Nadurmath Italy Mario Castorina, Claudio Rafanelli Japan Mitsuo Fukuchi Korea Hosung Chung Netherlands Taco de Bruin New Zealand Shulamit Gordon Norway Stein Tronstad Peru Richard Benavides Poland Krzysztof Jazdzewski Russia Victor Lagun, Vasily Smolyanitsky Spain Antonio Barragan Sweden Johan Sidenmark Switzerland Marc Rolli Ukraine Gennadi Milinevsky United Kingdom Helen Campbell United States Greg Scharfen, Rob Bauer UruguayVictoria Ressia Current membership: 30 nations
The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD): a global inventory of Antarctic and Southern Ocean data set descriptions SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management To make existence of data known and to make data accessible
The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD): SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD): SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD): SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
Yesterday: 3819 dataset descriptions Number of dataset descriptions vs time
SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management Is the AMD being used by scientists? YES. Number of retrievals has grown to 500/month
SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management Issue: Large variation in contributions per country
Reasons for this large variation Size of the Antarctic programme Size of the NADC (ranging from 10 fte to one person, part-time) National data policy and the willingness to enforce SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
JCADM and SCAR Concentrated on national level: Nation members Recruitment of NADCs Capacity building for NADCs Dataset decriptions for national projects Funding at national level These are all necessary first steps, but SCAR projects have been largely neglected so far SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
JCADM and SCAR SCAR Executive at annual meeting in Sofia, July 2005: Data management expert from JCADM on Steering Committee of each SRP ACE – Rob Bauer (US – NSIDC) AGCS – Helen Campbell (UK – BAS) EBA – Kim Finney (AU – AADC) ICESTAR – Claudio Rafanelli (IT – IFA/CNR) SALE – to be determined SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
JCADM and SCAR SCAR Cross-linkages workshop to learn data and data management needs and opportunities Develop (partnerships with) SCAR – MarBIN Ocean-READER Ice-READER Geo-READER SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management EBA AGCSSCAR/SCOR SO AGCS ACE
Marine Geo-READER SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
JCADM and SCAR SCAR Cross-linkages workshop to learn data and data management needs and opportunities Develop (partnerships with) SCAR – MarBIN Ocean-READER Ice-READER Geo-READER GBIF CliC IODE, ISPRS, ATS, IPY, etc. SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management EBA AGCSSCAR/SCOR SO AGCS ACE