The Polar Data Catalogue: Best Practices for Sharing and Archiving Canada's Polar Data

Abstract

The Polar Data Catalogue (PDC) is a growing Canadian archive and public access portal for Arctic and Antarctic research and monitoring data. In partnership with a variety of Canadian and international multi-sector research programs, the PDC encompasses the natural, social, and health sciences. From its inception, the PDC has adopted international standards and best practices to provide a robust infrastructure for reliable security, storage, discoverability, and access to Canada’s polar data and metadata. Current efforts focus on developing new partnerships and incentives for data archiving and sharing and on expanding connections to other data centres through metadata interoperability protocols.

Keywords

• Data management
• Arctic
• Antarctic
• Canada
• Cryosphere
• Data repository
• Interoperability
• Metadata
• Best practices
• Standards