Data Management for the International Polar Year

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Data Management for the International Polar Year
World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder
Facilitating the international exchange of snow
and ice data

• Mark A. Parsons

Joint Committee for Antarctic Data
Management Buennes Aries, Argentina 16 September
2005
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Organization of IPY Data Management

• Data Policy Management Subcommittee
• scientists
• data managers
• funding agencies

IPY Joint Committee
eGY
Programme Office
Data Information Service
Users
Projects, Organizations
Data Centers, Virtual Observatories, etc.
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The Data Policy and Management Subcommittee

• Taco DeBruin and Mark Parsons to Co-Chair
• Role
• Develop IPY data policy (draft already available)
• Design overall data strategy addressing physical
  samples, social science data, photographs, etc.
  as well as electronic scientific data
• Outline procedures for data organization,
  transmission, and archiving
• Next steps
• Receive Terms of Reference from JC and form full
  committee
• Establish an online meeting and potentially a
  face to face meeting at ICARP in Copenhagen in
  November
• Report to the JC at their November meeting in
  Geneva

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Data and Information Service

• Charged with implementing the strategy developed
  by the data committee
• Proposal (49) strongly endorsed by the JC
• Led by WDC for Glaciology, Boulder in partnership
  with many other data centers and organizations
• JCADM is a partner (via Taco, several NADCs, and
  GCMD)
• Concept is a network of regional or
  discipline-specific affinity centers.
• Central DIS acts as a data portal, facilitator,
  and data management consulting service.

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IPY DIS Next Steps

• Funding!
• Planning proposal in at NSF
• Other proposals to NASA and foundations
• JC encouraging national and international support
• Some progress with partner funding
• Develop ties to major IPY projects
• Develop affinity centers and organizational
  structure and procedures

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Role for JCADM

• Review and comment on data policy
• Nominate further members of data committee
• Help develop Antarctic affinity center(s)
• Provide expertise to DIS on international
  organization based on AMD experience
• Arctic is less organized
• Issues of social science data, biological
  samples, etc.
• Metadata issuesmay need to go beyond DIF