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SCADM reportUK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic
Survey
Alex Tate – Head, BAS Information ServicesAugust 2014, Auckland, New Zealand
Library Archives Web team
Polar Data Centre
Highlights of recent (2014) developments
• Data related service level agreement between the UK-PDC and NERC
• Conclusion of a short-term effort to improve marine cruise metadata.
• South Georgia fisheries project
• Space weather project
• Open access publishing
National developments
• Environmental research centres to become independent.
• Commercialisation of environmental data
• Big Data initiatives