The fifth meeting of the Arctic Data Committee will be held during 28 November in the morning and during a working dinner as part of the Polar Data Architecture workshop which is from 28 to 30 November 2018 at the WMO Headquarters in Geneva, Switserland.

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
08:30 - 12:00	Arctic Data Committee Business Meeting	ADC members, open to all
08:30	Welcome and introductions	All
08:45	ADC Executive report	Peter Pulsifer, Marten Tacoma, Stein Tronstad
09:15	National reports	All
10:30	Break
10:45	Report by a representative of SAON Committee on Observing Networks	Jan Rene Larsen
11:15	Review of Terms of Reference, leadership review	ADC Executive, All
11:40	Open forum	All
12:00	Adjourn

The sixth meeting of the Arctic Data Committee will be held as a vircual meeting at 7th December, 15-18 CET, 9am-12pm EST, 14-17 UTC. Please register here.

 

Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
XX:XX-XX:XX	Arctic Data Committee Business Meeting
	Welcome and introductions	All
	ADC Executive report including vision and strategy for 2021-2024	Peter Pulsifer, Marten Tacoma, Stein Tronstad
	Aligning polar data policies, status and updates A new data policy for the Arctic Council Data workshop during the ASSW and AOS Updates to the IASC data statement A data policy for SAON	Stein Tronstad
	Project, Program, Member and National reports, including Arctic PASSION, Work Package 2: Bringing the Arctic Data System to action (Øystein Godøy, Jan Rene Larsen, Heïdi Sevestre)	All
	Break
	Report by a representative of SAON Committee on Observing Networks	Jan Rene Larsen
	Review of Terms of Reference, leadership review	ADC Executive, All
	Open forum	All
	Adjourn

 (Registration Closed)

Dates and Location

28 - 30 November 2018

WMO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland

7bis, avenue de la Paix,
Case postale 2300
CH-1211 Geneva 2
Switzerland

 

 

PRELIMINARY SUMMARY REPORT of Polar Data and Systems Architecture Workshop

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• If you are participating in the Polar Data and Systems Architecture Workshop and are representing an entity that is engaged in data services,  please take the time to complete the workshop survey
• PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU BRING GOVERNMENT ISSUED PHOTO IDENTIFICATION. THIS WILL BE REQUIRED FOR ENTRY.  Badges will be available for participants at the front desk.  Please be sure to keep this badge for the duration of the workshop and bring it each day as it will be needed to access the building
• Plenary Meeting Room:  Salle B;  on the ground floor of the building, far side
• Secondary meeting Room (breakout):  WMO-7-Lake-Lake 7 (capacity 16 people), 7th floor, lake side
• There is Wi-Fi throughout the building, no password required
• See "Remote Participation" section of this page for detailed connection information (refer to the menu on the right)
• Group dinner:  Restaurant Edelweiss. Place de la Navigation 2, Geneva 1201, Switzerland, +41 22 544 51 60
• Important updates will may be sent to the polardata mailing list. If you are not a subscriber we strongly encourage you to sign up.

 

Background

A consortium of polar data coordinating bodies has recently hosted a number of useful workshops and events to foster collaboration between individuals, institutions, projects and organisations. These events have built on polar data coordination efforts including progress made during the International Polar Year, and two Polar Data Forum meetings.

More recently, the focus has been on identifying and understanding the specifics of polar data sharing and interoperability through workshops such as the Polar Connections Interoperability Workshop and Assessment Process hosted by the European Space Agency in 2016, and the Arctic Spatial Data Pilot implemented by the Open Geospatial Consortium. In May of 2018, the Polar Data Planning Summit (PDPS) hosted by the University of Colorado focused on specific interoperability priorities and the organizational and community-building aspects of data sharing and interoperability.

These and other polar activities have identified a need for continued, detailed technical collaboration in order to advance Polar Data Management. At PDPS technical discussions centred on achieving federated search through the exchange of standardised, well formatted discovery metadata. This is an important first step towards an interconnected polar data system and important gaps and mitigation have been identified at the levels of standardisation, exchange protocols, semantic annotation etc. Discussions also identified challenges consuming data from different sources and communities. Following the PDPS discussions continued during the Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) held in Davos in June of 2018, discussions on how to maintain momentum and facilitate the process towards an interconnected polar data management system resulted in the commitment by the community to a series of more technically oriented workshops focused on developing an architecture for this global system. This is a response to requests from PDPS and AOS participants to coordinate activities between communities. This initiative has been proposed as a deliverable for the upcoming Second Arctic Science Ministerial.

These activities have been and will continue to be organized by a group of coordination bodies including the IASC-SAON Arctic Data Committee, the Southern Ocean Observing System, Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management, GEO Cold Regions Initiative, Polar View, Arctic Portal, ELOKA, Canadian Consortium on Arctic Data Interoperability, U.S. Inter-agency Arctic Research Policy Committee Arctic Data Sub-Team, and the host of this meeting, the WMO Global Cryosphere Watch. A complete list of organizing bodies is provided below.

The primary purpose of this workshop is to solidify the architecture development team and to continue progress on components already under development. Specifically, work undertaken by the polar data community on:

Federated Search for Polar Regions

ADC-IARPC-SCADM Vocabularies and Semantics Working Group

 

General Background on Status and Requirements of Polar Data Management

 

Report of IPY Data Management Workshop (2006)

Report on SAON Data Management Workshop

Workshop on Arctic Data Coordination (2012 IPY Conference)

NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for Polar Sciences

Communiqué of First Polar Data Forum

Communiqué of Second Polar Data Forum

Data Management for Arctic Observing

Response by the Polar Data Community to the OGC Request for Information on Arctic Spatial Data

OGC Arctic Spatial Data Pilot Phase I Report

Summary Report of Polar Connections Interoperability Workshop and Assessment Process

Arctic Science Ministerial Deliverable Statement submitted to the Second Arctic Science Ministerial held in Berlin on the 26th of October, 2018 

 

Associated Organizations

 

The meeting is being co-led and co-organized by key polar data projects and programs. The meeting follows the Polar Data Planning Summit, Activities of Working Group 4 of the 2018 Arctic Observing Summit and other activities.  As of writing, organizers, partners, and contributors include:

• IASC/SAON Arctic data Committee
• SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management
• Southern Ocean Observing System
• Global Cryosphere Watch and related WMO activities (HOST)
• GEO Cold Regions Initiative
• Arctic Portal
• Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure
• Polar View
• International Arctic Social Sciences Association and representatives from the Arctic Social Science Community
• University of the Arctic
• EU Arctic Cluster including 8 current EU funded projects (APPLICATE, ARICE, BLUE ACTION, EU-PolarNet, ICE-ARC, iCUPE, INTAROS, INTERACT and NUNATARYUK)
• U.S. Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (Arctic Data Sub-Team, associated agencies, and projects)
• Alaska Ocean Observing System and Axiom Inc.
• Arctic Observing Viewer and Arctic Research Mapping Application
• NSF Arctic Data Center
• Canadian Consortium on Arctic Data Interoperability
• Polar Data Catalogue
• Canadian Polar Data Workshop Network
• Finnish Meteorological Institute
• National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
• Research Data Alliance
• Inuit Circumpolar Council.  Efforts are being made to support other Indigenous organizations in engaging
• IEEE

 

 

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Participant	Affiliation	Country
Christopher Arko	Polar Knowledge Canada	Canada
Gabrielle Alix	Polar Data Catalogue	Canada
David Arthurs	Polar View	Denmark/Canada
James Badger	Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, CCADI	Canada
Carolina Behe	Inuit Circumpolar Council	USA
Oscar Bermúdez	National Polar Data Center - Spanish Geological Survey	Spain
Pip Bricher	Southern Ocean Observing System, POLDER	Australia
Taco de Bruin	NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research	Netherlands
Shannon Christoffersen	Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary	Canada
Julia Collins	National Snow and Ice Data Center/CIRES/CU	USA
Andreas Cziferszky	British Antarctic Survey / Polar View	United Kingdom
Ruth Duerr	Ronin Institute	USA
Øystein Godøy	MET Norway / WMO GCW / SIOS	Norway
Petra Heil	University of Tasmania	Australia
Alexander Smirnov (Halldor Johannsson)	Arctic Portal	Iceland
Matthew Jones	Arctic Data Center / DataONE	USA
Siri Jodha Khalsa	U. Colorado/NSIDC/IEEE	USA
Peter Kirsch	British Antarctic Survey	United Kingdom
Jan Rene Larsen	Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON)	Denmark
William Manley	University of Colorado INSTAAR	USA
Alessandro Marin	ESA / Solenix	Italy
Maribeth Murray	Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, CCADI	Canada
Rodica Nitu	World Meteorological Organization	Switzerland
Mark Parsons	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	USA
Helen Peat	British Antarctic Survey	United Kingdom
Fredrik Persäter	Arctic SDI (Swedish Mapping, Cadastre and Land Registration authority)	Sweden
Giri Prakash	ARM Data Center, ORNL	USA
Jenn Parrott	Inuvialuit Regional Corporation	Canada
Peter L. Pulsifer	National Snow and Ice Data Center/CIRES/CU, Arctic Data Committee	USA
Simon Riopel	Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada	Canada
Alberto Salvati	National Research Council - CNR	Italy
Sampo Savolainen	Spatineo Inc.	Finland
Stefanie Schumacher	Alfred Wegener Institute - PANGAEA	Germany
Serge Scory	Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, EU Arctic Cluster	Belgium
Ingo Simonis	Open Geospatial Consortium	Germany
Mikko Strahlendorff	Finnish Met Institute	Finland
Colleen Strawhacker	National Science Foundation	USA
Marten Tacoma	NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research	Netherlands
Alex Tate	British Antarctic Survey	United Kingdom
Thomas Vandenberghe	Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences	Belgium
Xin Li	Institute of Tibetan Plateau, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
	Additional registrants who have asked not to be listed here

 

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Agenda and presentations

Links in the agenda give the slides of the presentation.

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
08:30 - 12:00	Arctic Data Committee Business Meeting	ADC members, open to all
08:30	Welcome and introductions	All
08:45	ADC Executive report	Peter Pulsifer, Marten Tacoma, Stein Tronstad
09:15	National reports Netherlands	All
10:30	Break
10:45	Report by a representative of SAON Committee on Observing Networks	Jan Rene Larsen
11:15	Review of Terms of Reference, leadership review	ADC Executive, All
11:40	Open forum	All
12:00	Adjourn
	Polar Data and Systems Architecture Workshop Main Program
Time	Topic/Item	Lead, Participants
13:00	Arrival, Refreshments
13:30	Welcome, logistics	Meeting organizers
13:45	Introductions	All participants
14:00	Review of recent activities and outcomes	Peter Pulsifer, Øystein Godøy, Pip Bricher, others
14:30	Detailed presentations on existing polar data and system architectures (~ 15:00 / talk including questions)
	Overview of the PDSAW Methodology (5 minutes)	Peter Pulsifer
	Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure	Fredrik Persäter
	NSF Arctic Data Center / DataONE	Matt Jones
	Polar Thematic Exploitation Platform	David Arthurs
	Arctic Portal Data Services	Alexander Smirnov
15:30	Break	All
15:45	Lightning talks presentations on architectures
	CAS Poles big data platform architecture	Xin Li (Remote)
	Canadian Consortium for Arctic Data Interoperability	Shannon Christopherson
	GEOSS platform	Peter Pulsifer
	Southern Ocean Observing System	Southern Ocean Observing System
	Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management	Taco de Bruin
	Arctic Research Mapping Application and Arctic Observing Viewer	Bill Manley
16:45	Synthesis discussion.  Identify elements of  architectural synergy and divergence for discussion on Day 2	All
17:30	Adjourn
Evening	1)  Dinner on your own - recommendations will be provided and the coordination of group dining facilitated
	2)  Working dinner for Arctic Data Committee members
Day 2: Thursday, November 29th, 2018
08:00	Arrival, Refreshments
08:30	Review of Day 1 and Overview of Working Sessions  (All)
	Presentation: Global Cryosphere Watch Data Management,  Øystein Gødøy Presentation: Considerations on the ArcticSDI Architecture, Ingo Simonis Presentation: GEOCRI – GEO Cold Regions Initiative, Yubao Qiu, Peter Pulsifer, presented by Peter Pulsifer Presentation: Overview of PDSAW Methodology, Peter Pulsifer
10:00	Work Session 1: Comprehensive architecture design (all elements of architecture)	Working Session 2:  Architecture design with a focus on Federated Search
	A broad review of all aspects of architecture. Including but not limited to discussion of: Community building, coordination, and governance, Physical infrastructure, Discovery and federated search Implementation software Standards and specifications Exchange protocols for data Semantic annotation and modeling for data	Open discussion to set priorities for this working group. All members to share their two most pressing metadata challenges that limit inclusion in an overall metadata architecture. (Pip Bricher) Potential topics include: Discovery vs use metadata Metadata granularity Exchange protocols Semantics/vocabularies for metadata
10:30	Break	Break
10:50	Working Session 1 continued.  Identifying key components of the architecture	Working Session 2 continued: Open discussion (on topic(s) selected before the break)
11:45		Opportunities to collaborate between POLDER and WIGOS Presentation: GCW, the Scientific Community and WIGOS, Øystein Godøy Presentation: WIGOS & OSCAR, … Where Observational Requirements Meet Observational Capabilities, J. Klausen et al.
12:30	Lunch	Lunch
13:30	Work Session 1	Work Session 2
	Summary of morning Working Sessions (presented by a representative of each session; 15 minutes per session.
14:00	Focus on semantic aspects of data sharing and implications for architecture design	Opportunities to collaborate with ASDI/Spatineo: Remote presentation by Sampo Savolainen Open discussion
15:30	Break
	Comprehensive Architecture Design:  develop a data sharing architecture diagram/design and related narrative that describes a system that could serve one or more use cases. Wherever possible, this architecture will address challenges identified and utilize solutions identified in the previous sessions.	Finalise the polar metadata catalogue survey and paper started at the Polar Data Planning Summit
17:30	Schema.org and Google Data Search, Remote presentation by Natasha Noy, Google The launch announcement gives a high-level overview of the product This article helps you learn more about the technology behind Google Dataset Search This blog post provides motivation and discussion of our approach
18:15	Adjourn
19:00	Group dinner.  Restaurant Les Brasseurs. Place Cornavin 20, 1201 Genèveation 2, Geneva
Friday, November 30th, 2018
08:00	Arrival, Refreshments
08:30	Review of Day 1 and Overview of Working Sessions
09:00	Working Session 1: Preparation for plenary presentation; consideration of Day 2 results of federated search working session	Working Session 2: Preparation for plenary presentation; consideration of Day 2 results of the comprehensive architecture working session
10:30	Break
10:50	Presentation and discussion of architecture-related designs by both groups
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Synthesis and the Future	Peter Pulsifer & other facilitators
	Establishing the next steps.  How do we continue to coordination of architectures design efforts across the increasing number of polar data initiatives? Specific funding or development opportunities.	Discussion by all
14:30	Adjourn

 

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Registration / Transportation

Registration for in-person attendance is now closed. If you would like to participate remotely, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

Transportation

WMO is located next to station Geneva-Sechèron (this is NOT the main station Cornavin). From Geneva Airport (GVA) it takes a couple of minutes by taxi/uber, or around half an hour by either bus or train to get to WMO or the center of Geneva. More information on public transport is available on https://www.gva.ch/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-67/. In the baggage hall of Geneva Airport are machines where you can get a free 80-minute ticket for public transport to get to your hotel. Several hotels provide free public transport cards to use during your stay in Geneva, otherwise, a single ticket is CHF 3.

Geneva is also well reachable by train from several directions allowing flights to other airports as well or full train rides to Geneva.

Picture by WMO, go to their website for more information on specific lines of bus/tram to take to WMO

 

Bus Access to WMO:

Buses 1, 25, stop Jardin Botanique and 11, 28 (stops
Secheron or Jardin Botanique).
United Nations building is at about 500 m.

Accommodation

There are several hotels close to WMO, and many more around Cornavin station and in other parts of Geneva. Besides using public transport you can also walk from hotels in near Cornavin station to WMO, this takes around 20 minutes and it is a very nice walk along the lake.

Hotels close to WMO headquarters:

• Hotel Ibis Geneve Centre Nations
  Rue du Grand Pré 33-35 - 1202 Genève

• Hotel Ibis Genève Centre Lac
  Rue De Berne 26, Pâquis, 1201 Geneva

• Hotel Drake-Longchamp
  Rue Butini 7, Pâquis, 1202 Geneva

• Hotel Les Nations
  Rue du Grand Pré 62, 1202 Geneva

• Hotel Eden
  Rue de Lausanne 135, 1202 Geneva

• Hotel Mon Repos
  Rue de Lausanne 131, 1202 Geneva

Or look at booking.com (direct link for Geneva, adjust dates to your own travel schedule) or any other booking site of your liking for hotels

Visa information

On this website, you can check the requirements to enter Switzerland. If you need an invitation letter to obtain a visa to attend the Polar Data Architecture Workshop, please contact Peter Pulsifer and Marten Tacoma.

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Remote participation

We are providing an option for remote participation using the Zoom web conference system. We will do our best to provide reasonable quality audio, however due to resrouce limitations, we cannot guarantee this.  The connection links are posted here, however, note that for technical reasons the meeting information can change from day to day (or even within a day). We will update the links below as needed. Also, please take the time to test before joining the meeting.  We will not be able to provide technical support to participants.

For those using dial-in, please refer to the following link to find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/a95VssgxR

PDSAW Day 1

Time: Nov 28, 2018 8:00 AM Zurich

Join Zoom Meeting
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/947008097

Dial by your location

Meeting ID: 947 008 097
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/acPllgv2wC

PDSAW Day 2

Time: Nov 29, 2018 8:00 AM Zurich

Join Zoom Meeting
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/189708599 (for plenary and session 1)

https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/6557451500 (for session 2)

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Meeting ID: 189 708 599 (plenary / session 1) / 665 745 1500 (session 2)
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/acPllgv2wC

Peter Pulsifer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

PDSAW Day 3

Time: Nov 30, 2018 8:00 AM Zurich

For plenary and Session 1 (Comprehensive Architecture)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/622051876

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Meeting ID: 622 051 876
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aexcX9Sewx

 

For Session 2 (Discovery and Federated Search)

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 655 745 1500
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Contact

Agenda: Peter Pulsifer
Logistics: Marten Tacoma
If your message is urgent, please send it to both Peter and Marten. If one of us is away the other will try to help you.

Dates: 16 to 18  September 2017

Time: 09:00 - 18:00

Venue: Centre Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada

The Fourth Meeting of the Arctic Data Committee took place from 16 - 18 September, 2017 in Montreal, Canada.  The report of the meeting is currently being drafted and will be posted here soon.  Highlights of the meeting include the expansion of the ADC Metadata Elements project, to a joint effort between ADC, the Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management and the Southern Ocean Observing System.  The group will focus on enabling federated search across polar data repositories and catalogues.  The ADC-IARPC Vocabularies and Semantics Working Group was formally launched and held its first meetng on 17 October 2017.

Saturday 16 September and Sunday 17 September were separate meetings of SCADM and ADC. Monday 18 September was a joint meeting of SCADM and ADC. 

Background Information 

For information about travel, accommodation and visa information please have a look at https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-tenth-plenary-meeting-montr%C3%A9al-canada (when you need an invitation letter and you are joining only the SCADM and/or ADC meetings please contact Marten Tacoma)

For attending the RDA Plenary you have to register trough the RDA website at https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-tenth-plenary-meeting-montr%C3%A9al-canada (early bird registration is available until 14 August 2017 midnight EDT). The RDA Plenary will close 21 September early in the afternoon.