SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management

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SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
Establishing a National Antarctic Data Centre
(NADC) Helen Campbell
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SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data
Management

• The Antarctic Data Management System (ADMS)
  consists of
• A single portal for recording information about
  data holdings - the Antarctic Master Directory
  (AMD), and
• A distributed system for storing and enabling
  access to that data the National Antarctic Data
  Centres (NADC).

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SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
Key players are
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SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
NADC steps for participating in the ADMS
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SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
Nominate a SCADM representative

• Responsible for
• coordinating national Antarctic data management
  activities in support of SCAR strategy/policy
• representing national Antarctic data interests
  on SCADM
• Should have
• Expertise in data management
• Good understanding of national Antarctic science
  activities, and data collection programmes
• Resources and authority to participate in SCADM
  activities and communicate them to others
  involved in Antarctic science and data management
• Ability, authority and resources to collate the
  data and ensure that it is managed and archived
  in line with SCAR policy
• Close links with their national SCAGI
  representative

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SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
The primary function of the NADCs is to act as
long-term repositories for archiving and
publishing Antarctic data in line with SCAR
policy, or to coordinate this activity
Establish/nominate data archiving centre(s)

• Nominated data archiving centres can be either
• A single National Antarctic Data Centre
• A partnership of existing national data
  management facilities.
• Their Antarctic data activities should
• be coordinated through the national SCADM
  representative
• be capable of meeting SCAR data policy
  requirements for
• actively curating/archiving data for the
  long-term
• facilitating re-use of data
• publication to SCAR endorsed data
  access/distribution networks

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SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
Establish an AMD national portal
Contact Stephanie Grebas (stephanie_grebas_at_ssaihq.
com) at GCMD to establish a National NADC portal

• To actively contribute to the AMD, it is vital to
  ensure you have sufficient resources within the
  NADC to either
• Create metadata on behalf of national scientists
• Support national scientists in submitting
  metadata to the AMD
• The Aug 2009 newsletter article entitled Success
  story from a small National Antarctic Data
  Centre by Shulamit Gordon provides good
  suggestions

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SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
Establish a national Antarctic data policy

• The policy should be publicly accessible and
  complementary to the SCAR Data Policy.
• It is vital that it is supported by national
  funding agencies to enable them to enforce
  compliance.
• Examples of existing national Antarctic Data
  Policies are available on the SCADM website

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• An operational plan describes how data is managed
  and archived to facilitate re-use of data
• This information should be publicly accessible

Create and publish an operational plan

• This should provide access to
• The AMD and your national portal
• Data, or the national data archive(s)
• The national data policy and operational plan

Create a data access website
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SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data
Management
Ongoing activities focussed around national
science projects
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SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data
Management