Polar Data Planning Summit
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Dates and Location
22 - 24 May 2018
UMC 415-417, University Memorial Center
1669 Euclid Ave, Boulder, Colorado, 80309 (corner of Broadway and Euclid)
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado USA
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Topic: PDPS Day 3
Time: May 24, 2018 8:00 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
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Background
A number of recent conferences, workshops and meetings have confirmed that there are many national, regional and local projects and programs that are active in polar data management and stewardship and that also have a mandate or desire to contribute to regional or international coordination of efforts and activities. Many of those initiatives have resources available and are making progress towards an envisioned connected, interoperable polar data system. The international polar data community is eager to improve cooperation and coordination of their efforts.
In the May of 2018, representatives from a wide range of different active programs and projects will come together to focus on work planning and coordination of effort. This meeting will complement past workshops and fora (e.g. IPY, Polar Data Forums etc.) that have been effective in defining important community challenges and technical issues. The focus of the Summit will be to generate detailed plans on how best to mobilise existing and soon-to-be initiated funded activities to develop a particular international data sharing case study or scenario. At the annual meetings of the Arctic Data Committee and the Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management held in Montreal in September 2017, a focus on the sharing of meteorological observations and linking to existing terrestrial data networks was discussed as one possibility. Discussions on the precise nature of the case study will continue, a decision will be taken during the winter of 2018.
The meeting is being be co-led and co-organized by key polar data projects and programs. As of writing, organizers and partners include:
- IASC/SAON Arctic data Committee
- SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management
- Southern Ocean Observing System
- Global Cryosphere Watch and related WMO activities
- GEO Cold Regions Initiative
- Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure
- Polar View
- Arctic Portal
- 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
- U.S. Interargency Arctic Research Policy Committee (Arctic Data Sub-Team, association agencies and projects)
- Canadian Consortium on Arctic Data Interoperability
- Canadian Polar Data Workshop Network
- Finnish Meteorological Institute
- National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
- Research Data Alliance.
- Inuit Circumpolar Council is part of the Summit. Efforts are being made to support Indigenous organizations in engaging.
The Summit is being support by the U.S. National Science Foundation and contributions from the organizers.
Agenda - Polar Data Planning Summit 2018
| Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018 | ||||
| Morning - Free time in Boulder, some participants arriving | ||||
| Time | Topic/Item | Lead, Participants | ||
| 13:00 | Arrival, Refreshments | |||
| 13:30 | Welcome, logistics | Peter Pulsifer, Colleen Strawhacker, Maribeth Murray | ||
| 13:45 | Introductions | All participants | ||
| 14:00 | Review of Polar Data Community Activities and Outcomes | Peter Pulsifer, Colleen Strawhacker, Maribeth Murray, Anton Van de Putte (tent), Pip Bricher | ||
| 14:30 | Examples of Operational, Interoperable, Cyberinfrastructures and Initiatives | |||
| Global Cryosphere Watch | Øystein Godøy | |||
| Polar Thematic Explortation Platform | David Arthurs | |||
| FAIR data sharing principles | Ruth Duerr | |||
| Semantics Working Group | Ruth Duerr | |||
| Connecting data to Society, Science, Decision Making and Policy; Use of Scenario Planning | Sandy Starkweather | |||
| 15:30 | Break | All | ||
| 15:45 | Setting the Context and Introduction to Use Cases | |||
| Discovering and linking data to support our understanding of cryospheric extreme events in the past, present and future. | Øystein Godøy | |||
| Sharing Biological and Oceanographic Data in Support of Marine Science and Resource Management | Pip Bricher, Serge Scory, Taco DeBruin | |||
| Mobilizing Data and Information to Support Vibrant and Resilient Arctic Communities | Colleen Strawhacker | |||
| GEO Cold Regions Initiative | Yubao Qiu (Remote) | |||
| 16:45 |
Lightning talks by participants: Merged Observatory Data Files.., T, Uttal NWT Centre for Geomatics, D. Gibson
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Open to all participants including virtual participants (3 minutes or less; can reference poster) | ||
| 17:30 | Adjourn | |||
| Evening | Dinner on your own - recommendations will be provided and coordination of group dining facilitated | |||
| Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018 | ||||
| 08:00 | Arrival, Refreshments | |||
| 08:30 |
Review of Day 1 and Overview of Working Sessions |
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| 09:00 | Simon Riopel (Remote) | |||
| 09:15 | Interoperable Data Discovery | |||
| Working Session | Working Session | |||
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Technical Track |
Context and Scenarios Track | Faciliator | ||
| Metadata standards, specficiations, protocols, services, federated search (facilitated by representative of Polar Federated Search Working Group) | Identification of Actors (use cases will guide discussions) | Lynn Yarmey | ||
| Semantic Aspects of Data Discovery (facilitated by Ruth Duerr, Polar Semantics and Vocabularies Working Group) | Drivers for data discovery | |||
| Focus on identifying and documenting key problems and solutions related to data discovery guided by Use Cases | Known data infrastructures | |||
| 10:30 | Break | Break | ||
| 10:50 | Working Session | Working Session | ||
| Architecture Design: develop a discovery architecture diagram and related narrative that describes a system that could support one or more use cases. Wherever possible, this architecture will address challenges identified and utilize solution identified in the previous session. | Concept mapping - establish model of actors and infrastructures connected by drivers and other relationships. | Sandy Starkweather | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch (provided) | Lunch (provided) | ||
| 13:30 | Technical Track | Context and Scenarios Track | ||
| Data standards, specficiations, protocols, services (facilitated by participants including GCW, ASDI and others | Looking to the future: building on the morning session, what actors, drivers, cyberinfrasturctures etc. might we expect in the near, medium and long-term? Identify different scenarios that we may need to plan for? Link to different societal and environmental scenarios. | Mark Parsons | ||
| Semantic Aspects of Data Sharing (facilitated by Ruth Duerr, Polar Semantics and Vocabularies Working Group) | ||||
| Focus on identifying and documenting key problems and solutions related to data sharing guided by Use Cases | ||||
| 15:30 | Break | Break | ||
| Architecture Design: develop a data sharing architecture diagram 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 solution identified in the previous session. | Synthesis. Written document summarizing discussion in Context and Scenarios Track. Target towards presentation at Arctic Observing Summit, Arctic Science Summit Week etc. | All | ||
| 17:30 | Adjourn | |||
| 19:00 | Group dinner | |||
| Thursday, May 24th, 2018 | ||||
| 08:00 | Arrival, Refreshments | |||
| 08:30 | Review of Day 1 and Overview of Working Sessions | |||
| 09:00 | Working Session (Single Track) | |||
| Data processing, assimilation, synthesis etc. | ||||
| Taming an Ocean of Data at AOOS | Shane St Savage, Axiom Data Science/Alaska Ocean Observing System | |||
| The Concept of Synthesis | Christopher Jones, NSF Arctic Data Center | |||
| 9:30 | Working session - linking outcomes of Technical and Context/Scenarios track. How can "Architectures" serve the Actors, Drivers and Scenarios identified | All | ||
| 10:30 | Break | |||
| 10:50 | Working session continued | |||
| 12:30 | Lunch (provided) | |||
| 13:30 | Synthesis and the Future | Peter Pulsifer & other faciliators | ||
| How do we actualize globally connected polar cyberinfrastructures? How do we continue to coordinate efforts across the increasing number of polar data initiatives? | Discussion by all | |||
| 14:30 | Drafting statements and meeting outcomes for Arctic Science Summit Week, Arctic Observing Summit, Arctic Science Ministerial, GEO Plenary and other events. | Conbributions by All | ||
| 15:30 | Adjourn | |||
Poster Session
Poster session from the start of Day 1 (set up before start of meeting or at first coffee break) and will run the last coffee break of Day 3.
| Poster Title | Author |
| Identities and roles in international networks | Mark Parsons |
| The Arctic Observing Viewer: Visualization, Data Discovery, Strategic Assessment, and Decision Support for Arctic Observing | William Manley |
| Polar Thematic Exploitation Platform | David Arthurs |
| Data Sharing Initiatives in the Southern Ocean | Pip Bricher |
| EU PolarNet | Serge Scory |
| The WMO GCW Glossary | Ruth Duerr |
| The Bering Sea Project Archive: a Prototype for Improved Discovery and Access | Don Stott |
| NOAA's Data Niche at NSIDC | Florence Fetterer |
| Polar Data Catalogue Antartic Activities | Ellsworth LeDrew |
Registered Participants
| Name | Affliation | Country |
| David Arthurs | Polar View | Denmark |
| Pip Bricher | Southern Ocean Observing System | Australia |
| Andreas Cziferszky | British Antarctic Survey / Polar View | United Kingdom |
| Taco de Bruin | NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research | The Netherlands |
| Eric Coplin | Battelle-NEON | United States |
| Ruth Duerr | Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship | United States |
| Florence Fetterer | NSIDC | United States |
| Daniel Gibson | Government of Northwest Territories | Canada |
| Øystein Godøy | Norwegian Meteorological Institute | Norway |
| Sarah Inman | University of Washington | United States |
| Christopher Jones | National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UC Santa Barbara | United States |
| Peter Kirsch | Polar Data Centre; British Antarctic Survey | United Kingdom |
| Christine Laney | Battelle-NEON | United States |
| Ellsworth LeDrew | University of Waterloo, Polar Data Catalogue | Canada |
| Corrado Leone | Italian National Research Council | Italy |
| Simona Longo | CNR | Italy |
| William Manley | University of Colorado, INSTAAR | United States |
| Heidi McCann | CIRES/NSIDC | United States |
| Maribeth Murray | Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary | Canada |
| Mark Parsons | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | United States |
| Peter L. Pulsifer | University of Colorado at Boulder | United States |
| Yubao QIU | Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth | China |
| Simon Riopel | Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation / Natural Resources Canada | Canada |
| Hannele Savela | Thule Institute, University of Oulu | Finland |
| Serge Scory | Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences | Belgium |
| Donna Scott | National Snow and Ice Data Center | United States |
| Aleksandr Smirnov | Arctic Portal | Iceland |
| Sandy Starkweather | NOAA-ESRL/CIRES | United States |
| Don Stott | National Center for Atmospheric Research | United States |
| Colleen Strawhacker | National Snow and Ice Data Center | United States |
| Shane St Savage | Axiom Data Science (Alaska Ocean Observing System) | United States |
| Marten Tacoma | NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research | The Netherlands |
| Chris Torrence | NSIDC | United States |
| Taneil Uttal | NOAA | United States |
| Thomas Vandenberghe | Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences | Belgium |
| Naomi Whitty | Polar Field Services | United States |
| Ann Windnagel | NOAA@NSIDC | United States |
| Lynn Yarmey | Research Data Alliance | United States |
Highlighted Use Cases
Discussion at the Polar Data Planning Summit will be focused around a number of use cases. The title of the use cases are provided below. More details will be provided here prior to the Summit, and they will be refined during the Summit.
Discussion will revolve around a general theme: Data Sharing for Understanding and Responding to Environmental Change
At least three specific use cases are being developed:
Discovering and linking data to support our understanding of cryospheric extreme events in the past, present and future.
Sharing Biological and Oceanographic Data in Support of Marine Science and Resource Management
Mobilizing Data and Information to Support Vibrant and Resilient Arctic Communities
Background Resources
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
Organizational and Technical Resources
Arctic Observing Viewer Guide to Interoperability
Data Curation Centre - General Data Management
SeaDataNet Standards and Software
Research Data Alliance Working Groups
Research Data Alliance Interest Groups
Registration
The number of participants at the summit is limited. As of Aprill 30th, registration for the Polar Data Planning Summit closed.
Transportation
The recommended airport is Denver International Airport (DEN).
There are many ways to get from DIA to Boulder. Below are a few:
- Shuttle service Green Ride Colorado shuttle - Boulder Offers shuttle service from/to DIA. The link for reservations is below: https://www.greenrideboulder.com/reserve.html
- Public Transportation The Regional Transportation District (RTD) offers reasonable bus service from/to DIA. The cost for a one-way trip is $9. RTD schedules will be changing May 20, 2018. General information about public transit can be found here: https://www.flydenver.com/parking_transit/transit/bus-rtd-skyride. The link to the new schedule for the AB1 is below: http://www3.rtd-denver.com/schedules/getSchedule.action?serviceType=3&routeId=AB&routeType=9&&runboardId=2514
- If you will be renting a car:
Driving Directions to Best Western Boulder Hotel, 770 28th Street, Boulder, 303-449-3800
- Fast Toll-route Shortest. 44 miles, 41 min, Toll $6.50 (recommended only during rush hour) Depart Denver International Airport via Pena Blvd. Exit right onto E-470 North. Continue on E-470N until you exit to US-36. Turn right on US-36 to Boulder. US-36 becomes 28th Street in Boulder. Take ramp to Baseline Rd. Go straight across Baseline onto the frontage road. Best Western Boulder Inn is 1 block on right.
- Long Route, No Toll, 44 miles, 48-60 min Follow airport exit signs to Pena Blvd. After 9.7 miles, Pena Blvd. merges into I-70W. From I-70 W take the I-270N Exit (#279) towards Fort Collins. Merge onto US-36W for about 26 miles. Take Baseline Rd. exit, and stay in middle lane after exit. Go straight through traffic light onto the frontage road. Best Western Boulder Inn is 1 block on right.
Some simple rules for orienting in Boulder. The Mountains run North-South and are always to the west. Broadway is the main thoroughfare near campus. Arapahoe is a major East-West road. north-south roads are generally numbered from west to east.
Driving directions from Boulder Inn to University Memorial Center (note that parking is very difficult to secure. driving is not recommended)
Transit directions from Boulder Inn to University Memorial Center (fare $2.60 exact change required)
Walking directions from Boulder Inn to University Memorial Center (this can be challenging for non-locals. bringing a phone for guidance is recommended)
Weather
Note that the weather in Colorado can be quite variable at this time of year. Tempartures can vary tens of degrees over the course of a day. Sunny skies are typical for Colorado, however participants should be preparred for precipitation as well. For up-to-date information, please check services such as https://www.accuweather.com, https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/colorado/weather-radar,
Contacts:
Content and themes: Peter Pulsifer
Travel Arrangements and Logistics: Heidi McCann