Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor ZeeonderzoekRoyal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

1NIOZ is an institute of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

The Netherlands Antarctic Data

Ira van den BroekData Management Group NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Polar Data Management in the Netherlands

Datasets

Other activities – a project information system

New call for proposals

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Datasets, statistics

Last two years still mainly IPY projects

GCMD main metadata catalogue

• 14 dataset descriptions in AMD portal

• 23 dataset descriptions in IPY portal (10 antarctic, 13 arctic)

Only a fraction of data freely accessible

Some datasets are claimed by several data centers

• e.g. GEOTRACES, Polarstern cruise: GEOTRACES data center (project), PanGaea (ship), NIOZ (scientists, funding)

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Other activities

Example: Abisko project

department of Systems Ecology at VU University, Amsterdam

long term (+10y) project of field observations and experiments on permafrost (Abisko, N. Sweden)

lack of central information about projects, field visit logs

• notebook in field station, log forms in Word sitting on various desktops or lost, ....

solution: web-based application

• overview of field visits in the past

• functionality to add field visit details and log forms

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Abisko Project Application - start page

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Abisko Project Application - overview

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Abisko Project Application – field visit details

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Abisko Project Application – application details

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Abisko Project Application – log details

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Abisko Project Application – add information

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NPPP New Netherlands Polar Program

Call for new project proposals by NWO*

NIOZ Data Management Group more actively involved

questions about data management in grant applications

paragraph on data management in terms and conditions for grants

Additionally: NWO is changing its policy, claiming co-ownership of data and demanding that data be published

*: NWO - Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research11