SciDataCon2014（November 2-5, India, http://www.scidatacon2014.org/ ）

"Towards a Global Metadata Interoperability Network: Experiences and Technologies for Linking Catalogues" was held, with discussion including the polar data management

The 2nd "Polar Data Forum" will be held in Canada, on November 2015

A special issue on "“Polar Data Activities in Global Data System" held in Tokyo on October 2013, was published online in the CODATA Data Science Journal (total 16 papers).

Final Publication; https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/dsj

The organizing committee would like to express appreciation to all contributors and cooperators again.

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http://dias-dss.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ddc/

Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS) has been providing the metadata of polar sciences, compiled by the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), through the metadata server of the Polar Data Center, NIPR.

New functions are add to Metadata portal

・Data hervesting function（OAI-PMH, eprints)
・Enhance the Security for（PHP,MySQL, XOOPS)

User mannual is revised for Ver.4.1

All the metadata (Japanese+English) can be downloaded from the NIPR Metadata portal;

http://scidbase.nipr.ac.jp/modules/site/index.php?content_id=14