(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:
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- 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
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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
| 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 |
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 |
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) |
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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 |
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| 10:00 |
Work Session 1: Comprehensive architecture design (all elements of architecture) |
Working Session 2: Architecture design with a focus on Federated Search |
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A broad review of all aspects of architecture. Including but not limited to discussion of:
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Open discussion to set priorities for this working group. Potential topics include:
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
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.
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.
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.
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PDSAW Day 1
Time: Nov 28, 2018 8:00 AM Zurich
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PDSAW Day 2
Time: Nov 29, 2018 8:00 AM Zurich
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PDSAW Day 3
Time: Nov 30, 2018 8:00 AM Zurich
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