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C O D A T A

International Polar Year Data Policy and Management Subcommittee

Approved by the CODATA 25th General Assembly, Beijing 2006

Objectives:

The overall objective of the group is to define the data policy, strategy, and overall management approach for the International Polar Year (IPY), facilitating international cooperation among the IPY scientific projects on the open data access while preserving intellectual property rights. More specifically:

1. Outline a strategy for IPY data management with specific goals based on the scientific questions formulated in the IPY 2007-2008 Science Plan and which meet the special needs of the social sciences, the Education, Outreach and Communications Plan, and the general public.

2. Determine the organizational data flow structure (including consideration of procedures, (near) real-time requirements, transmission and archival of data) required to support the IPY 2007-2008 science objectives.

3. Assess the extent to which existing and proposed data management systems can be used by the IPY science projects:

• for the responsive delivery of data and data products;
• for the secure but accessible archival of IPY data;
• for the delivery of information on the location and availability of IPY data.

4. Provide expert advice to the IPY Joint Committee and to endorsed IPY projects on all IPY metadata and data management issues, including proposed data management programmes that may be independent of specific IPY 2007-2008 science projects (such as legacy data collections).

5. To establish and provide ongoing guidance to the IPY Data Information Service, and regular review of its effectiveness.

Articles in the CODATA Data Science Journal or other refereed Journals

The IPY Data Policy & Management Subcommittee and its members expect to publish a variety of documents and research papers detailing the overall design, structure, and implementation of IPY data management, including “lessons learned".

Books and Monographs  

Virtual Observatories and Distributed Data Systems: Current status, Technologies and Directions (jointly with the eGY Working Group on Virtual Observatories)

Other Products

• An IPY data policy in accordance with existing ICSU and WMO policies.

• A strategy and general infrastructure for IPY data flow and data management. This will contribute to the long-term strategic framework (policies, practices, and infrastructure) outlined in the ICSU PAA on Scientific Data and Information, including improved data access, data inventories, improved interaction between the CODATA and the World Data Centers System, and contribution to the ICSU Scientific Data and Information Forum (SciDIF).

• A compendium of best practices, virtual observatories, and distributed data systems.

• A case study for the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS).

• Test implementation of the CODATA’s Global Information Commons for Science initiative.

Other information or comments

The IPY Data Subcommittee plans to collaborate closely with the other International Geoscience Years: the UN-endorsed International Year of Planet Earth, the International Heliophysical Year, and the Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY). We already have close ties to the eGY and could help establish closer ties between CODATA and eGY. The eGY has a focus on data management issues and is directly relevant to the CODATA mission.

Co-Chairs:

Mark A. Parsons (co-chair)
National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology
University of Colorado
449 UCB
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0449
U.S.A.
+1-303-492-2359
parsonsm@nsidc.org

T.F. de Bruin (co-chair)
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (Royal NIOZ)
P.O. Box 59
1790 AB Den Burg
THE NETHERLANDS
+31-222-369 479
bruin@nioz.nl

Members:

Nathan Bindoff
Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC
Private Bag 80
Hobart Tasmania 7001
AUSTRALIA
+61 3 6226 7888
n.bindoff@utas.edu.au

Joan Eamer
GRID-Arendal
Longum Park
Service Box 706
Arendal N-4808
NORWAY
+47 3703 5720
Joan.Eamer@grida.no

Hannes Grobe
Alfred Wegner Institute
Columbusstrasse
D-27568 Bremerhaven
GERMANY
+49(471)4831-1220
hgrobe@awi-bremerhaven.de

Ray Harris
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
UNITED KINGDOM
+44 20 7679 4283
r.harris@geog.ucl.ac.uk

Ellsworth LeDrew
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo Ontario N2L 3G1
CANADA
+1 519-888-4567
ells@watleo.uwaterloo.ca

Xin Li
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lanzhou Gansu Province 730000
CHINA
+86-(0)931-4967249
lixin@lzb.ac.cn

Håkan Olsson
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
PO Box 7070
SE 90183 Umeå
SWEDEN
+46 (0)90 786 8376
Hakan.Olsson@resgeom.slu.se

Vladimir Papitashvili
Space Physics Research Laboratory
University of Michigan
2455 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143
USA
+1 703 292-7417
papita@umich.edu

Birger Poppel
Ilisimatusarfik
University of Greenland
Box 279
Nuuk 3900
GREENLAND
+299 324522/157
bipo@ilisimatusarfik.gl

Alexander Sterin
Russian Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information, World Data Center
6 Korolyov Str.
Obninsk, Kaluga Region 249035
RUSSIA
+7 95 2552467
sterin@meteo.ru