The SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management

SCAR Cross-Linkages workshop

Amsterdam, 22-24 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

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KNOWN

ACCESSIBLE

USABLE

DATA

First step:

Inventories with data set descriptions: metadata

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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

Bulgaria Miroslav 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

Uruguay Victoria 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):

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The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD):

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The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD):

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Number of DIFs from all AMD IDN_Nodes - Content Growth

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Number of DIFs from all AMD IDN_Nodes

Yesterday: 3819 dataset descriptions

Number of dataset descriptions vs time

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Total Number of DIF Retrieval

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Number of DIF Retrieved

Is the AMD being used by scientists?

YES.

Number of retrievals has grown to 500/month

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Number of DIFs By Country/AMD IDN_Node (most current)

141

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Number of DIFs

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

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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

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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

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EBA

AGCS SCAR/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

AGCS SCAR/SCOR SO

AGCS

ACE