Hello,

After a long hiatus celebrating the new calendar and new polar years, we are finally ready to follow up on the results of the DADDI workshop (http://nsidc.org/daddi/workshop.html).

A small but diverse and enthusiatic group of particiapnts helped us develop two use cases. Draft versions of these use cases are available on a wiki and we encourage broad community edits. See
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/SolutionsUseCase_CoastsOcean_Arctic_1a
and
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/SolutionsUseCase_CoastsOcean_Arctic_2a

We also spent time exploring a variety of visualization tools.

Richard Lammers demonstrated The Arctic RIMS data explorere
http://rims.unh.edu/data.shtml

Nicole Couture demonstrated ACD’s new detailed coastline database which will be available soon.

Greg Yetman demonstrated a vartiety of lightweight web services that could be useful:

Social bookmarking, save and share bookmarks:
http://del.icio.us/

mine, for example, are at:
http://del.icio.us/gyetman

Flickr, a cool photo sharing site:
http://www.flickr.com/

with a mapping interface that uses Yahoo maps and allows searching:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/geog/map/

Mapping mashups with Google Maps are all over the place, try some from:
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2006/12/50-things-to-do-with-google-maps.html

I especially like:
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/
and
http://65.39.85.13/google/default.htm

or create your own with the API:
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

This one that I quickly put together combines flickr photos with a map of the campus:
http://www.columbia.edu/~ggy1/maps/gmaps/campus_map_buildings.html

We have been working closely with the GCMD to establish an IPY metadata registration system and that will be available soon.
I will also keep you posted on developments in the search interface. A prototype should be available shortly.

Cheers,

-m.