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
Tom
Jerry
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 ?