Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management meeting （SCADM-16 meeting was held on July 13, 14 at Portland, USA.

National reports from NADCs including Japan, together with SCAR Data and Information Strategy and their Implementation Activities are discussed.

Three directors of the World Data System (WDS) under ISCU visited NIPR on May 25, 2012. And the Special Science Seminor is held.

Dr. David Carlson（UNAVCO, USA）
（Director of International Programme Office for the IPY 2007-2008）
<< Urgent Topics for Future Polar Research >>

Dr. Mustapha Mokrane (WDS-IPO, NICT)
（Executive Director of WDS-International Programme Office)
<< The ICSU World Data System Tackles IPY Data Challenges >>

Dr. Kostiantyn Yefremov（Ukrina WDC director）
<< Activity of WDC @ Ukrina >>

User Mannual of the metadata portal sever is renwed.

2nd version (2012, March, 7,500KB)

Check the follwoing URL,

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

Dr.Mustapha Mokrane of ICSU’s Scientific Data and Information activities visited Polar Data Center of NIPR on 3rd February, 2012. He discussed with the staff of PDC as for the NIPR database, IPY management, as well as about cooperaiton strategy fo the newly established World Data System (WDS) under ICSU.

As Executive Director, Mokrane will head the WDS International Programme Office (IPO) from early March 2012, which is hosted by the Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Tokyo.

The Office is to manage and coordinate the establishment and operations of the WDS, and take responsibility for outreach and promotional activities, under the guidance of the ICSU WDS Scientific Committee.

2012_JpGU; Union Session (U-01) "Toward a New Framework of Global Data Activity"

Session Scope:
Data in Earth, planetary and space sciences is growing in size
explosively, is becoming heterogeneous in nature, and is requiring
multidisciplinary interactions to related scientific fields and more
general society. As the importance of the data is increasingly stressed,
further efforts to use and publish such data in various ways are
expected for communications with general society. Database or data
center works in individual institutes have become more active; at the
same time discussions to make interdisciplinary cooperation or fusion
between databases, organizations, and data systems are strongly required.
While international unions, programmes, and bodies such as IUGG, IPY,
IRDR, WMO, UNESCO, etc., have been launching their own data activities
and/or are showing the interest in data issues separately, they are now
discussing or approaching collaboration with related activities. A new
programme, ICSU World Data System (WDS), was launched in 2008, where one
of the most important goals is to realize "system of data systems". In
November 2010 ICSU decided to establish its international programme
office (IPO) in Japan. This session welcomes reports and discussions on
domestic and international data activities, and development of system of
data systems and key technologies for international data sciences and
data systems, as well as it fosters and facilitates various exchanges
and mutual understanding between multidisciplinary science data
activities/programmes/institutes; also this session welcomes discussions
on activities and communities in Japan and how they can interact with
ICSU-WDS and other related activities to aim at the shared interests and
goals.