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Antarctic Data Management
Lee Belbin
Manager, Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Chairman, Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
Outline
• The Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC)
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Position
Objectives
Achievements
Hurdles
• The Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management (JCADM)
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Position
Objectives
Foundation
The Antarctic Data Directory System
Achievements
Hurdles
Position
• The Australian Antarctic Data Centre is within the
Science Branch of the Australian Antarctic Division
• The Australian Antarctic Division is a Federal
government department within Environment & Heritage
• The Australian Antarctic Division is akin to local, state
and federal government agencies
• The AAD has responsibility for AAT management
– All AAT infrastructure & support is co-ordinated through the AAD
– All research is co-ordinated through the AAD
AADC Objectives
• Demonstrate leadership in fulfilling Australia’s Treaty
obligations in relation to the management of Antarctic
scientific information
• Provide an efficient service for locating and accessing
relevant Antarctic scientific data
• Deliver an effective mapping base for Australia’s
Antarctic program
• Manage Australia’s Southern Ocean sea-level network
in the AAT and Australian sub-Antarctic Islands
Achievements
• Balance ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ strategies
– Antarctic Science Advisory Committee Policy on data
management
– ‘Cradle to grave’ strategy
• Links with research applications forms
• Provision of data and ‘educational material’
• Links from research annual reports
• Data submission
• Metadata system & linkages
• GIS infrastructure
– Standards (SDM…)
– Web GIS
– Data downloads
• Web database systems & integration
Hurdles
• Changing the ‘culture’
• Metadata
– Simpler & more efficient tools
– TC211 migration
• Efficient mechanisms for managing spatial
data in database systems
• More efficient database generation
• Data linkages and data mining
JCADM
International Union
of Science (ICSU)
Antarctic Treaty (ATCM)
Scientific Committee
on Antarctic Research
(SCAR)
Council of Managers of
National Antarctic
Programs (COMNAP)
Joint Committee on
Antarctic Data
Management (JCADM)
The Antarctic Data
Directory System (ADDS)
JCADM Objectives
• Promote the establishment, coordination and
support of the Antarctic Data Directory System
• Promote effective scientific data management
among parties to the Antarctic Treaty
• Maintain a communications network for Antarctic
data managers
• Report to SCAR, COMNAP and Treaty on
Antarctic data management issues
• Provide input to and advice from international
data management groups (participate in the
development of the IDN)
XXIII ATCM Resolution 4 (98)
• The Representatives of the Consultative Parties, Recalling the
Commitment of Parties under Article III.1.c. of the Treaty to
promote international co-operation in scientific investigation by
exchanging, and making freely available, scientific observations
and results from Antarctica;
• Welcoming the establishment by SCAR and COMNAP of the
Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management and the
Antarctic Data Directory System; and
• Recognising the enhanced efficiency for Antarctic research to be
gained from effective data management;
• Recommend that-
R4 - Part 1
• Consultative parties, who have not yet done so,
establish National Antarctic Data Centres and link
these to the Antarctic Data Directory System
managed by the Joint Committee on Antarctica Data
Management of SCAR and COMNAP
R4 - Part 2
• Consultative parties and their National Antarctic
Data Centres encourage their scientists, through a
process of education, support and the development
of policies and procedures, to provide in a timely
manner appropriate information to their National
Antarctic Data Centres for distribution through the
Antarctic Data Directory System…
R4 - Part 3
• Consultative Parties give priority
consideration as to how the requirement
for freedom of access to scientific
information, in accordance with Article III
(1)(c) of the Treaty, is achieved within
their national data management systems
The ADDS
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Master
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Antarctic
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Achievements
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JCADM communications network
XXIII ATCM Resolution 4
Establishing NADCs
Guidelines for NADCs
An effective Antarctic Master Directory with
~2,000 Antarctic metadata records
• Improvements to metadata tools
• Links with the International Arctic
Environmental Data Directory
Hurdles
• Changing the ‘culture’
• Diverse NADC environments and NADC
Resourcing
• ‘Capacity building’
• Antarctic community support for the GCMD
as host of the Antarctic Master Directory
and ancillary support functions
• Improved communication with other
international data management
communities such as CEOS