The state of IPY datamanagement: the Japanesecontribution and legacy

Diverse data accumulated by many science projects make up the most significant legacy of the International Polar Year (IPY2007-2008). The Polar Data Center (PDC) of the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) has a responsibility to manage these data for Japan as a National Antarctic Data Center (NADC) and as the World Data Center (WDC) for Aurora. During IPY, a significant number of multidisciplinary metadata records have been compiled from IPY- endorsed projects with Japanese activity. A tight collaboration has been established between the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD), the Polar Information Commons (PIC), and the newly established World Data System (WDS).

Details are referred to as;
http://scidbase.nipr.ac.jp/modules/site/index.php?content_id=16&ml_lang=en

SCADM meeting, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 7-9 September 2011
July 20 2011

Fifteen up to twenty-five persons from seventeen countries are expected to attend the meeting. The agenda will follow shortly. SCADM members are requested to inform Taco de Bruin, SCADM Acting Chief Officer, whether or not they will attend the meeting.

http://www.uibcongres.org/congresos/ponencia.en.html?cc=207&mes=3&ordpon=1

The first ICSU WDS Conference - Global Data for Global Science – was successfully held at Kyoto University in September 2011, under collaboration with CODATA and the Integrated Risk and Disaster Research (IRDR) of ICSU. It was the first international meeting in order to construct a smooth human network with advanced interconnections between data-management components for disciplinary and multidisciplinary applications in global scale.

The WDS policy of open and full access to data will benefit the international scientific community and ultimately society at large. The concepts of data publication and data citation should be adopted and promoted by the WDS in order to facilitate the release of data, with proper recognition of providers, including the polar community. The WDS would take the necessary steps to archive the IPY data and work with the PIC to preserve, curate, and add value to data in the PIC cloud in order to preserve the legacy of data of the IPY (WDS-SC, 2009).

Introduction Lecture for "Metadata Portal Server" was held

Date: July 28, 2011; 1500-1600 JST
Place: Seminor Room of NIPR (3F of main building)
Detail: (Japanese)
http://www.nipr.ac.jp/info/notice/20110705.html

Please look at the Japanese page.