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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
The SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management SCAR Cross-Linkages
workshop Amsterdam, 22-24 November 2005 Taco de
Bruin JCADM Chief Officer
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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management

• Data management background information
• JCADM
• Data management for the SCAR SRPs
• Issues and ideas

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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
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
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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
Data management concentric shell model
KNOWN
First step Inventories with data set
descriptions metadata
ACCESSIBLE
USABLE
DATA
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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management

• 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

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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
Current membership 30 nations
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
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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD) a global
inventory of Antarctic and Southern Ocean data
set descriptions
To make existence of data known and to make data
accessible
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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD)
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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD)
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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD)
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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
Number of dataset descriptions vs time
Yesterday 3819 dataset descriptions
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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
Is the AMD being used by scientists?
YES. Number of retrievals has grown to 500/month
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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
Issue Large variation in contributions per
country
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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management

• 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

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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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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
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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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

EBA
AGCS
SCAR/SCOR SO
AGCS
ACE
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SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
Marine Geo-READER
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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.

EBA
AGCS
SCAR/SCOR SO
AGCS
ACE