A general issues on "IPY 2007-2008 datamanagement" was introduced by Masaki Kanao (Polar Data Center of NIPR) on 20th April, 2011 at Science Siminor of NIPR.

Several topics involving the data management issures on polar regions were introduced, such as the SCAR-DIMS, SCADM activities, Japanese NADC status, SAON-IASC activities, Polar Information Commons (PIC), as well as new WDS under ICSU.

The database server is now under the testing mode at monent in 2011 May. Only for NIPR users can loging to the server.

Information for the user ID and passed are to be the administrators (dbase (at) nipr.ac.jp), Polar Data Center.

Thank you for your cooperation to data publication of polar region.