Learning from the International Polar Year to Build the Future of Polar Data Management

Abstract

The research data landscape of the last International Polar Year was dramatically different from its predecessors. Data scientists documented lessons learned about management of large, diverse, and interdisciplinary datasets to inform future development and practices. Improved, iterative, and adaptive data curation and system development methods to address these challenges will be facilitated by building collaborations locally and globally across the ‘data ecosystem’, thus, shaping and sustaining an international data infrastructure to fulfil modern scientific needs and societal expectations. International coordination is necessary to achieve convergence between domain-specific data systems and hence enable multidisciplinary approaches needed to solve the Global Challenges.

Keywords

• International Polar Year
• Data management
• Data curation and stewardship
• Long-term preservation
• Open-access
• Data infrastructure
• Data ecosystem