May 10 – 14, 2004 CEOS WGISS Tromsø, Norway Antarctic Master Directory Managing Antarctic Scientific Data The Antarctic Treaty requires signatories to manage, exchange and make freely available their scientific data ADDS was proposed and endorsed in 1992; DIF adopted as a tool JCADM and the ADDS were established by SCAR and COMNAP in 1997 The AMD hosted by GCMD since 1999 Currently 26 NADC’s have been established

May 10 – 14, 2004 CEOS WGISS Tromsø, Norway Antarctic Master Directory Hosted by the GCMD

May 10 – 14, 2004 CEOS WGISS Tromsø, Norway Antarctic Master Directory A Collaboration With The Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management (JCADM) Redesigned AMD portal New portals added in support of National Antarctic Data Centers (NADCs) Access to over 3000 DIFs Consistently most popular portal with respect to DIF searches and retrievals Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC) has installed MD8 software

May 10 – 14, 2004 CEOS WGISS Tromsø, Norway Antarctic Master Directory Portal Redesign Design similar to GCMD with an Antarctic theme –Graphically enhanced with photographs –Topic keyword thumbnails are more relevant to Antarctic research Customized top navigation bar including a link to JCADM website for more information Added page listing NADC portals with links to each portal:

May 10 – 14, 2004 CEOS WGISS Tromsø, Norway Antarctic Master Directory NADC Portals Belgian Antarctic Program created January 2003 Finnish Antarctic Program created January 2003 Centro de Datos Antárticos, Argentina created August 2003 Canadian Polar Commission/Canadian Committee for Antarctic Research created October 2003 Swiss Committee on Polar Research created November 2003 US Antarctic Data Centers/US Antarctic Data Coordination Center created February 2004 Japan National Institute for Polar Research created February 2004

May 10 – 14, 2004 CEOS WGISS Tromsø, Norway Antarctic Master Directory Content Statistics – DIF Distribution by Topic

May 10 – 14, 2004 CEOS WGISS Tromsø, Norway Antarctic Master Directory Content Statistics – DIF Distribution by Country

May 10 – 14, 2004 CEOS WGISS Tromsø, Norway Antarctic Master Directory Use Statistics - Searches

May 10 – 14, 2004 CEOS WGISS Tromsø, Norway Antarctic Master Directory Use Statistics – Retrievals

May 10 – 14, 2004 CEOS WGISS Tromsø, Norway Antarctic Master Directory Use Statistics - Summary Searches in 2004 show a slight increase over the last six months of 2003 Overall, number of retrievals increasing Since November 2003, AMD accounts for approximately 9% of all portal searches AMD is the most popular portal of 23 portals

May 10 – 14, 2004 CEOS WGISS Tromsø, Norway Antarctic Master Directory Challenges Acquiring and implementing a map in polar projection for a more thorough spatial search Encouraging updates from certain NADC’s Establishing NADCs in the remaining 18 Antarctic Treaty nations Working within JCADM to take full advantage of the AMD as a tool for the Antarctic scientific community