SCAR DIMS Implementation31st July 2010

Kim Finney (Manager, Australian Antarctic Data Centre & Chief Officer, SCAR

Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management)

DIMS Implementation Plan

• Project 1– Interoperable Data

Repository Network– 3 sub-tasks

• ISO metadata profile• Registry service• Demo Portals

• Project 2– Improving Relevance and

Utility of SCAR Products– 2 sub-tasks

• SCAR Product marketing• SCAR product marketing

• Project 3– Polar Information Commons– 3 sub-tasks

• Badge data as PIC• PIC repository network• PIC Cloud

Building A Better SCAR Data Infrastructure

Antarctic Master Directory (with a

registry interface)(NASA)

Standardmachine to machine

interfaces

data store

Data Portal

Scientists are able to use a data discovery portal from one country,

that can also access data from another country’s data store.

data store

Harvests from

Service Registry

Portals Standard Interfaces

Protocols

Building A Better SCAR Data Infrastructure

What if I don’t have anywhere to put my data but I’m happy to share

it ?

data

bucket

Internet Cloud

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I wonder what data is out there for the polar regions ?

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Metadata Catalogue &

Registry

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Polar data

Search

Publish to

Badging Data

• Three functions of badge:• Labels data with conditions of use• Labels data as being part of commons• Links to norms (expected behaviours for data usage)

Cloud Services

How Can Your Country Contribute ?

• Low entry barrier• Make your existing data public and aligned with PIC

via a PIC badge (using GCMD tool).• Volunteer to help define the Polar ISO metadata

profile.

• More Effort Required• Volunteer to modify an existing Portal to fit the

architecture (of the repository network) we want to put in place.

• Build a new Portal• Register data services (Note: not the same as just

metadata) in our “agreed” registry so that Portals can use these web services.

Issues

• How many people understand the vision ?

• What are the barriers to participation ?