JCADM Node Updatefor the Antarctic Master Directory

(AMD)

David Kendig

GCMD – NASA IDN Node

Sept. 17, 2003 Chiang Mai, ThailandSept. 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

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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

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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/ 2799 DIFs in the AMD, up from 2406 in

September 2002 or over 393 new DIFs this past year!

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Total DIFs in AMD

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Comparison with Other Portal’s Retrievals

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Total DIFs by CountryNode Country Aug 2003AMD/AR Argentina 92

AMD/AU Australia 1793

AMD/BE Belgium 7

AMD/CL Chile 1

AMD/CN China 29

AMD/EE Estonia 1

AMD/DE Germany 10

AMD/ES Spain 39

AMD/FI Finland 1

AMD/IT Italy 1

AMD/JP Japan 58

AMD/NL The Netherlands 11

AMD/NO Norway 3

AMD/NZ New Zealand 60

AMD/UK United Kingdom 44

AMD/US United States 649

  Total 2799

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Top 10 DIF Retrievals in 2003DIF Entry ID DIF Entry Title Node

parent_met Antarctic Climate Data Collected by Australian Agencies AMD/AU

CDA_AR_PSIC_PSYCOSOCIAL_PROCESS

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_CLIMATOLOGY

Air Temperature Conditions and Climatic-Geomorphological Characteristics of James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula AMD/AR

MACQUARIE_METEOROLOGYMeteorology data from Macquarie Island Station (300004), 1948 ongoing, surface measurements AMD/AU

SSEC-AMRC-SYNAntarctic/Southern Hemisphere Synoptic Weather Observations AMD/US

NASA_CODE970_ICE_STREAMSurface Velocity of Ice Streams Measured by Satellite Imagery AMD/US

DELFT_HYDRAULICS_GWCDBGlobal Wave Climate Database on the WWW from Delft Hydraulics AMD/US

NEW_ZEALAND_ANTARCTICAntarctic-related Science Investigation Data from Events Supported by the New Zealand Antarctic Institute AMD/NZ

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New PortalsNew 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

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Belgium Antarctic Program PortalBelgium Antarctic Program Portalhttp://http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Data/portals/amd_begcmd.nasa.gov/Data/portals/amd_be//

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Finnish Antarctic Program PortalFinnish Antarctic Program Portalhttp://gcmd.nasa.gov/Data/portals/amd_fi/http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Data/portals/amd_fi/

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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