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Facilitating the international exchange of snow and ice d
IPY Data Management
Mark A. Parsons
co-chair IPY Data Policy and Management Subcommittee
eGY Meeting
Boulder, Colorado, USA
13 March 2006
What is IPY?
The largest and broadest research
program the planet has ever seen!
As of January:
>30,000 investigators
>60 countries
>1000 expressions of intent
>200 coordination proposals
+200 more
31 Jan.
Addressing physical, life, and social sciences
Only 352 days away
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eGY
Year
of Planet
Earth?
IHY
What is IPY?
A fantastic data
management challenge!
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2 IPY Data Meetings in Cambridge
• 2 March: Inaugural meeting of the IPY
Data Policy and Management
Subcommittee
• 3-4 March: An IPY data management
planning workshop
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Data Subcommittee
Mark Parsons, USA; co-chair
Taco de Bruin, Netherlands; cochair
Nathan Bindoff, Australia
(represented by Kim Finney)
Joan Eamer, Norway/UNEP
Hannes Grobe, Germany
Ray Harris, UK/GEOSS
Ellsworth LeDrew, Canada
Xin Li, China (absent)
Håkan Olsson, Sweden
Alexander Sterin, Russia/WMO
(Evgeny Vyazilov)
Vladimir Papitashvilli, USA/eGY
Birger Poppel, Greenland
Eberhard Fahrbach – liaison to JC
Dave Carlson – Director IPY- IPO
Addressing issues of
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IPY data definition
Data policy
Relations to observational
systems
An IPY Data Management Workshop
• Over 40 participants from 13 countries
• Major goal: determine functions, form,
and implementation for an IPY Data and
Information Service
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Organization of IPY Data Management
Data Policy & Management
Subcommittee
• scientists
• data managers
• funding agencies
IPY Joint
Committee
Programme
Office
eGY
Data
& Information
Service
Users
Projects
Data Centers, Virtual
Observatories, etc.
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Alternate Views of the DIS
DIS?
DIS?
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Format of the meeting
• Presentations on existing approaches
• Breakout groups to identify issues and
recommendations
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Standards
Managed data access
Identifying archives
Data discovery
Data submission/publication
Semantics
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Why do data management?
Our primary purpose should be to serve
the objectives of IPY, esp:
• International exchange
• Interdisciplinary science
• Building a legacy
Who or what does eGY data
management serve?
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Crosscutting themes or recommendations
• Outreach—working toward the culture change,
“Preserve or Perish”
• To providers, users, developers, public
• On the value of data management, open access, and
data publication
• On the use of standards (esp. ISO19115 and OGC)
• Awareness of appropriate technologies
• Clarification of terms, eg. “discovery” “open access”
• Need to recognize different cultures require different
approaches
• Encourage formal recognition for data publication
eGY can help develop a data management
outreach strategy
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Crosscutting themes or recommendations
• Pre-collection survey
Planned (funded) data to be collected
Other data needed?
Planned data access mechanisms
Existing archives, portals, experts—identify gaps
(missing and nonparticipating data center)
• Develop a registry (linked to the IPO/honeycomb)
• Need to track throughout project—relate to outreach
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• Linkage, access to, and preservation of
operational data
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Crosscutting themes or recommendations
• Phased approach necessary for everything
• Initially pragmatic and based on existing structures
and technologies
• Aim high for the future, act as a catalyst
• Consider developing some prototype approaches to
discovery, access (information commons),
organization….
• Hybrid of distributed and centralized data
• Need a high level architecture diagram.
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Crosscutting themes or recommendations
• Pursue corporate funding (as well as
national)
• OGCII is a possible partner
• Need an overarching/coordinated data
“proposal”--task group?
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Some immediate outcomes (more later)
• IPY data policy (by 15 Apr.)
• Letter from JC to national funding agencies
identifying specific DM requirements and
requesting explicit DM funding.
• Recommendation to ICSU and WMO to
designate an data coordinator.
• Efforts to link to the observational community
• IPY Knowledge Organization Group
• Presentation at EGU, 4 April
• Townhall meeting at EGU. 5 April
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Data Systems Today
© N. Carr 2006
What they need to become
© N. Carr 2006
Backup slides
Outcomes of data committee meeting
Discussed and refined the draft IPY data policy:
• Create a data policy to meet IPY objectives
• International collaboration
Data used by IPY
• Interdisciplinary science
• Building a legacy
Data generated by IPY
• Free and open access
• Defined data types
• Metadata
• Publications
Exceptions:
• ethical
• endangered species
• commercial
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