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Invitation to participate and demo at the Polar Information Commons in Oslo

2010-03-05T16:19:52Z

The Polar Information Commons (PIC) has made remarkable progress in the months since receiving a small initiation grant from ICSU. We have stimulated interest and initial participation from several polar data centers and seek to expand that partnership.

With support from NASA and conference organizers the PIC will host a prominent informations commons area at the IPY Science Conference in Oslo, consisting of:
1. A central workstation cluster to demonstrate, in a hands-on fashion, the PIC tools, processes, and systems, and to allow interested users to badge and submit their data within the PIC system.
2. Surrounding displays from cooperating polar data centres, to emphasize the variety and capabilities of the various portals for IPY data and their collective involvement with PIC.
3. The International Programme Office display, with our rich array of polar information consisting of books and maps for distribution and flyers, charts, maps, resources, stamps and coins and links for perusal and download.
4. A 3-dimensional data sculpture developed by art students from the Netherlands.
5. Selected images from the “Polar Heritage” display produced by Christian Morel (tentative).
6. A friendly and comfortable location for people to explore and learn about PIC formally and about IPY polar information generally.

We envision full-time staffing of the PIC and the IPO nodes. We plan informal and scheduled demonstrations of PIC itself.

We offer the opportunity for polar data centers to demonstrate their data systems and engage with their user communities. If you are interested in exhibiting, please contact , David Carlson, or Kathleen Cass. Some limited travel support will be available to assist data centers who might not otherwise attend.

This is a great opportunity to carry the data legacy of IPY forward. Please let us know of your interest as soon as possible.

Data Session at the Oslo IPY Science Conference

2009-11-18T14:23:21Z

T5-4 Data and other cross-cutting issues for future polar research

http://www.ipy-osc.no/article/2009/1256483011.4
http://www.ipy-osc.no/article/2009/1245943314.4

This session will highlight strategies and methods related to data recording and management, interdisciplinarity in polar research, and the bridge between the physical and social sciences. Presentations are sought on current and potential new systems for data organization, management, access and retrieval; activities and issues related to interdisciplinary research and education; and other efforts with the potential of advancing knowledge and the future of polar research.

International IPY Data Management Meeting in Ottawa, Canada, September 29 – October 1, 2009

2009-10-07T18:07:59Z

Presenter slides and rough notes from the International IPY Data Management Meeting in Ottawa, Canada from September 29 – October 1, 2009. Are available at https://ipydis.org:443/wiki/doku.php?id=ottawa (ignore the certificate problem)

Stay tuned for more information on the development of the State of Polar Data report.

Data Management Workshop

2009-09-24T20:09:33Z

I would like to draw your attention on a Data Management Workshop in Cologne by
the end of October which my group is organizing.

http://www.tr32db.uni-koeln.de/workshop/workshop09.php

Thanks
Georg
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Prof. Dr. Georg Bareth
Geography, GIS & RS
University of Cologne
50923 Cologne
++49-221-470-6552 Fax: -1638

http://www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/gis
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IPY international Data Management Meeting, Ottawa September 29-October 1, 2009

2009-06-01T12:37:50Z

On behalf of the IPY- International Programme Office, Canada will be hosting the International IPY Data Management Meeting from September 29 to October 1, 2009. This represents a great opportunity for data managers / coordinators to take stock of what has been achieved over the last two years and discuss the challenges and opportunities regarding the stewardship of data collected during the International Polar Year.

Details are included in the atached invitation.

Please email Scott Tomlinson () for further information or to register.

Regards
Scott

Report on IP Joint Committee Meeting and Celebration 23-25 February

2009-03-03T18:35:48Z

IPY Joint Committee Meeting and Celebration 
23-25 February 2009 
World Meteorological Organization
Geneva, Switzerland

The IPY Joint Committee (JC) met 23 and 24 February, and the IPY Celebration marking the end of the primary IPY field period was held 25 February. The focus of the JC meeting was on how to maintain the momentum of IPY activities and sustain the networks, observing systems, and data produced during IPY. I attended to present a report of the IPY Data Policy and Management SubCommittee, which I co-chair. The report entitled “IPY Data Management Strategy, Status, and Roadmap” is available at http://ipydis.org/documents/jc8report_feb09.pdf. The JC accepted this report and agreed to support continued IPY data management activities.

The primary product for the celebration was The State of Polar Research, a summary document prepared by the JC which highlights initial advances in polar research made during IPY, the critical research challenges for the future, and recommendations for a way forward. See the report at http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/state_of_polar_research/. This should be viewed as an initial report. The JC will be writing a book on the overall IPY experience and scientific advances. I will contribute to data and other chapters. IPY will also be contributing to several major scientific assessments, including:
- Climate Change and the Cryosphere: Snow, Water, Ice, and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) is an Arctic Council ‘Cryosphere Project’ in Cooperation with IASC, CliC and IPY. An initial version will be presented to the Conference of the Parties in the UN climate convention (CoP15) in Copenhagen in December.
- Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment which is intended to be an equivalent of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment and should be published this summer.

The Joint Committee will continue but will not meet again until the end of their term right before the next IPY Science Conference in Oslo, 8-12 June 2010 (http://www.ipy-osc.no/). The Programme Office will also continue at a reduced level until this meeting. The Oslo conference and a follow-on in Canada in 2012 will provide the focus for IPY wrap-up activities including publication of the data and research results and the incorporation of sustained activities within international structures. Members of IPYDIS will work over the next year at a workshop supported by Canada and in conjunction with a September meeting of the Standing Committee on Antarctic Data to define the “IPY Data Collection”. The collection will be presented at the Oslo conference. Major scientific assessments and the book by the JC will be completed by the the 2012 Conference.

To continue the data effort, ICSU has provided a small grant to CODATA to develop the framework for polar data sharing and preservation through a “Polar Information Commons.” My report to the JC describes the effort. More information will be coming out soon. This relates to the transition to the World Data System. The WDS transition team chaired by Bernard Minster and Nicole Capitaine, meets in 9-11 March. Taco de Bruin and I will submit a brief white paper on lessons learned from IPY. Paul Cutler, the ICSU observer on the JC will represent IPY at the meeting. Lessons and recommendations from IPY, other projects, and the Unions will be reviewed. The final result of this meeting will be a white paper on the particulars of how to implement the new WDS including certification criteria. The ICSU Executive meet at the end of April during which the new ICSU data committees will likely be determined. I suspect we will have a nascent functioning WDS in six to twelve months.

Finally, the UN and WMO hosted a series of celebrations and press conferences. A reception one evening at the Palais des Nations featured a photo exhibition by Christian Morel highlighting IPY researchers at work in the field. The photo gallery is available at http://www.wmo.int/artgallery/polar/our_polar_heritage/our_polar_heritage.html.

Many Informatics sessions at EGU

2009-01-08T16:20:20Z

A coleague asked me to pass this on. Note abstracts are due next week.

Dear Colleague,

The 2009 European Geosciences Union meeting will be held 19-24 April 2009 in Vienna, Austria. The Call for Papers and other meeting information are available at:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2009/index.html

You might be particularly interested in the newly established Earth and Space Science Informatics division, which is currently inviting papers to various sessions:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/sessionprogramme/ESSI

Below is a list of sessions being convened. Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts is 13 January 2009.

ESSI1
International Informatics Collaborations and Projects
Convener: M. Ramamurthy | Co-Conveners: L. Miller , S. Nativi

*ESSI2*
EU - Africa Cyberinfrastructures
Convener: M. Petitdidier | Co-Conveners: C. Barton , A. B. Rabiu

*ESSI3*
ESSI Education and Public Outreach
Convener: M. Messerotti | Co-Convener: E. CoBabe-Ammann

*ESSI4*
Biodiversity Informatics
Convener: É. Ó Tuama | Co-Conveners: J. Kerr, H. Saarenmaa

*ESSI5*
Informatics in Oceanography
Convener: G. M. R. Manzella | Co-Conveners: E. Balopoulos, C. Maillard

*ESSI6*
Earth System Modeling: Strategies and Software
Convener: R.G. Budich | Co-Convener: R. Redler

*GI4/ESSI7*
General System Design, Image Processing and Data Infrastructures
Convener: W. Schmidt | Co-Convener: J.-L. Josset

*ESSI8*
Data Preservation and Long Term Access
Convener: W. Som de Cerff | Co-Conveners: C. Jacobs, S. Nativi

*ESSI9*
Data and Metadata Models& Mark-up Languages
Convener: A. Woolf | Co-Conveners: B. Domenico, S. Nativi

*ESSI10*
The SOA approach for Earth and Space Sciences
Convener: S. Nativi | Co-Conveners: S. Cox,P. G. Marchetti

*ESSI11*
Semantic Interoperability, Knowledge and Ontologies
Convener: K. Stock | Co-Conveners: S. Fiore P. Fox

*ESSI12*
Collaboration Technologies, Social Networking and Web 2.0
Convener: R. B. Husar | Co-Conveners: P. Fox, M. Ramamurthy

*ESSI13*
Geosciences Applications on Grid and HPC
Convener: G. Lecca | Co-Conveners: P. Fox , M. Petitdidier

*ESSI14*
Grid for Geosciences applications
Convener: H. Schwichtenberg | Co-Conveners: P. Mazzetti , W. Som de Cerff
*ESSI15*
Virtual Globes and Visualization Tools
Convener: M. Ramamurthy

*ESSI16*
Seismic Visualization
Convener: D. Patel

I encourage you to submit abstracts to any of the above sessions. Also,
please feel free to forward this message to your colleagues that might
be interested in participating in the meeting. As a newly created
division, it is especially important that there is broad participation
in the EGU ESSI activities in these nascent years so that ESSI can
become a permanent part of the EGU program.

Again, I kindly remind you that the deadline for submitting abstracts is
Tuesday, 13 January.

Thank you,

Mohan Ramamurthy
Unidata/UCAR

Report from Data Workshops at IPY Open Science Conference

2008-11-21T17:28:57Z

The IPY Data Committee held two workshops prior to the IPY Open Science Conference in St Petersburg last summer:
A joint IPY Data Committee and JCADM Meeting and an Interoperability Workshop. Notes for these meetings are available at:

https://ipydis.org/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki_home

IPY-related Data Sessions at AGU

2008-07-28T18:24:18Z

I and others are convening several sessions related to data management that would be well informed by the IPY experience. There is one on data centers and libraries, another on the ethics of data sharing, and the third on data systems for (polar) observing networks. See links below.

We encourage your submissions at http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=program
Abstracts are due 10 September.

-m.

U08: The Library - Data Center Alliance in Earth and Space Sciences

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=272

IN22: Data and the Ethos of Science

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=351

IN20: Sustained, Interoperable Data Systems for Observing Networks--Building the IPY Legacy for Earth System Science.

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=593

Arctic Change 2008 conference

2008-07-22T16:14:08Z

Christine Barnard writes:

During the SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference, I mentioned the upcoming Arctic Change 20008 conference to be held in Québec City next December. Here is the link for more information:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com/

“The ArcticNet Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada and its national and international partners are welcoming the international Arctic research community to Quebec City for the International Arctic Change 2008 Conference. Coinciding with the pinnacle of the International Polar Year and the 400th anniversary of Quebec City, Arctic Change 2008 welcomes researchers, students, policy makers and stakeholders from all fields of Arctic research and all countries to address the global challenges and opportunities brought by climate change in the circum-Arctic. With over 600 participants expected to attend, Arctic Change 2008 will be the largest trans-sectoral international Arctic research conference ever held in Canada. The conference will be held at the Quebec City Convention Centre from 9-12 December 2008.”

Please do not hesitate to contact me for further information and I hope to see you there!

Cheers,

Christine

Christine Barnard, PhD
Data Coordinator / Coordonnatrice de données
ArcticNet Inc.
Pavillon Vachon, Local 4081
1045 Ave. de la Médecine
Université Laval
Québec (Québec) G1V 0A6

T: +1-418-656-2411
F: +1-418-656-2334