1. JCADM Node Update for the Antarctic Master Directory (AMD) David Kendig GCMD – NASA IDN Node

2. Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, Thailand JCADM – 7 Meeting Highlights Met in July in Brussels 31 SCAR, 29 COMNAP and 26 JCADM members Nations represented (18): New Zealand, Belgium, Russia, Netherlands, Norway, Australia, Korea, Japan, Argentina, Canada, Switzerland, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Germany, UK, US, Ukraine A focus on educating emerging countries on populating and using the AMD and general data management protocol

3. Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, Thailand JCADM – 7 Meeting Highlights NADCs was requested to document their databases using the SERF GCMD was requested to begin to document services and to add services to the AMD portal A tutorial was given on how to participate in the AMD A lot of interest obtaining DocBuilder for writing DIFs

4. Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, Thailand Antarctic Master Directory Update Australian Antarctic Data Center had MD8 installed and running More DIFs in the Antarctic Master Directory (AMD), http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Data/portals/amd/ http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Data/portals/amd/ 2799 DIFs in the AMD, up from 2406 in September 2002 or over 393 new DIFs this past year!

5. Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, Thailand Total DIFs in AMD

6. Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, Thailand Comparison with other Portal Searches

7. Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, Thailand Comparison with Other Portal’s Retrievals

8. Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, Thailand Total DIFs by Country NodeCountryAug 2003 AMD/ARArgentina92 AMD/AUAustralia1793 AMD/BEBelgium7 AMD/CLChile1 AMD/CNChina29 AMD/EEEstonia1 AMD/DEGermany10 AMD/ESSpain39 AMD/FIFinland1 AMD/ITItaly1 AMD/JPJapan58 AMD/NLThe Netherlands11 AMD/NONorway3 AMD/NZNew Zealand60 AMD/UKUnited Kingdom44 AMD/USUnited States649 Total2799

9. Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, Thailand Top 10 DIF Retrievals in 2003 DIF Entry IDDIF Entry TitleNode parent_met Antarctic Climate Data Collected by Australian Agencies AMD/AU CDA_AR_PSIC_PSYCOSOCIAL_PR OCESS Psychosocial study of human adaptation to living in Antarctica AMD/AR Ice_Plain_B_Velocities Surface Velocities of Ice Plain B, West Antarctica AMD/US CDA_AR_GEO_J.ROSS_CLIMATOL OGY Air Temperature Conditions and Climatic- Geomorphological Characteristics of James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula AMD/AR MACQUARIE_METEOROLOGY Meteorology data from Macquarie Island Station (300004), 1948 ongoing, surface measurements AMD/AU SSEC-AMRC-SYN Antarctic/Southern Hemisphere Synoptic Weather Observations AMD/US NASA_CODE970_ICE_STREAM Surface Velocity of Ice Streams Measured by Satellite Imagery AMD/US DELFT_HYDRAULICS_GWCDB Global Wave Climate Database on the WWW from Delft Hydraulics AMD/US NEW_ZEALAND_ANTARCTIC Antarctic-related Science Investigation Data from Events Supported by the New Zealand Antarctic Institute AMD/NZ

10. Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, Thailand New Portals Portals are great for NADCs with limited resources to manage their own metadata Portals are easily customizable; the NADC needs to provide: Content Logo Color preferences

11. Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, Thailand Belgium Antarctic Program Portal Belgium Antarctic Program Portal http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Data/portals/amd_be/ http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Data/portals/amd_be/

12. Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, Thailand Finnish Antarctic Program Portal Finnish Antarctic Program Portal http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Data/portals/amd_fi/ http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Data/portals/amd_fi/

13. Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, Thailand More on the Way Argentina portal already online Officers encouraged each NADC to create a portal if practical A number of other countries expressed interest