Transcript SCADM14-FI-Arto

SCADM report
Arto Vitikka
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
Rovaniemi
Finland
[email protected]
Data management practises
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In Finland there is no central national data centre.
The data is stored at the research institutes and
universities which are doing research there:
Finnish Meteorological Institute,
Finnish Geodetic Institute,
Geological Survey of Finland,
University of Helsinki: Dept. of Geophysics, Dept. of
Geology and Institute of Seismology,
University of Oulu and
University of Lapland
Antarctic research in Finland
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The funding for the Antarctic research comes
through the Academy of Finland funded by the
Ministry of Education and Culture.
The current period 2013-2016 (2.5 millon € for
research, funding for logistics comes is
separate from this).
During last season three scientific research
gruops did fieldwork at the Antarctica.
Research projects during 2013-2016
Atmospheric Composition and Processes relevant to climate
change in Antarctica (ACPANT), University of Helsinki
Variation of Antarctic sea ice thickness and its effect on the load
level of ice navigating, AALTO University, Meteorological Institute
Cosmic Rays in Polar Atmosphere (CRIPA), University of Oulu
Antarctic Meteorology and its Interaction with the Cryosphere and
Ocean (AMICO), Finnish Meteorological Institute
Atmospheric Composition and Processes relevant to climate
change in Antarctica (ACPANT), Finnish Meteorological Institute
Metadata holdings
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number of records: 44
number of distinct metadata providers: 25
known gaps in the holdings: existing important metadatasets not available
through the GCMD: no information on these
Data holdings
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are the metadata records linked to actual
data? No - data is delivered according to
requests
which data types are made available?
How many datasets badged for the Polar
Information Commons? None
Are there issues with badging the data (CC0
and CC-BY)? None
Funding situation
• core funding and source: core funding for managing the
data is in the budget of the institutes doing Antarctic
research. Finnish Meteorological Institute is funding Arctic
Centre with a small sum to participate in the work of SCADM
and to be the contact to researchers/institutes to have DIFs.
• own resources invested (monetary; in kind; FTE): some in
kind resources from the Arctic Centre
• What do you see as your scope? To ensure that the
Antarctic data and metadata collected by Finnish
researchers is well managed according to recommendations
by SCAR/SCADM. Also to increase knowledge of the
importance of proper data management and give support
and tools for sharing data.
Problems encountered
• Financial: universities lack consistent data management
policies and resources for that.
• Technical: sharing Antarctic data from large closed
institutional databases is problematic.
• Political: institutions holding Antarctic data do not have much
interests in investing resources to share data
• Role of funding agencies: nowadays they demand a data
management plan including sharing and long-term
preservation plans.
• Possible role of SCADM/SCAR/ATCM/National
Committees?
Technical
• Take-up of GCMD: generally well received
among researchers
• GCMD API: has not been applied
• Priorities to extend DIF format? No priorities to
this
Highlights of recent
developments
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Data storage infrastructure for universities
improved significantly by a new service
provided by CSC – IT Center for Science.
Important for the universities
Recent developments
More information
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www.antarctica.fi
gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Home.do?P
ortal=amd_fi
[email protected]
Thank You!