Collaborative Research: Integrated Arctic Data Management Services (IADS) to Support Arctic Research

知识价值：这是一项努力，以解决NSF北极研究界日益增长和日益多样化的数据管理需求。北极综合数据管理服务（IADS）的核心活动将包括识别和编目由美国国家科学基金会北极调查员产生的所有数据，并提供援助和工具，以满足发布数据和相关元数据的要求。IADS将确保数据有良好的记录，以保证保存和促进跨学科重用，并将使数据能够通过不同的门户网站发现，包括一个新的IADS门户网站，用于发布研究者元数据和数据、特殊项目支持和广泛社区的访问。IADS将通过其支持服务和服务台功能，以及通过整合来自美国国家科学基金会项目的数据集和通过其他美国机构和其他国家的活动产生的数据，促进科学综合。IADS将处理北极环境变化研究（SEARCH）、北极观测网络（AON）和其他努力产生的复杂数据类型，以满足不同利益相关者的需求。除了先进的搜索和发现功能，IADS还将包括重新格式化（网格数据的重新投影、指向网格的转换、以各种格式下载数据的选项）、子集和可视化等服务。可视化服务将包括如何使用集成数据查看器、谷歌地球和其他工具的演示和说明。更广泛的影响：此活动的核心操作代表更广泛的影响。IADS将使其拥有的数据能够发现和使用，促进科学综合和促进对实现搜索目标至关重要的机构间合作。通过讲习班和其他场所与搜索/AON领导的活动和协调，数据管理将提升为科学研究的一个组成部分。在小组进入实地之前的支持将包括元数据教育，在发布之前如何组织数据集的指导，以及提供用于实地的软件工具。这些不同活动的回报将是更好的数据管理、服务和数据集成能力，在未来几年和几十年内使北极研究界受益。

Intellectual Merit: This is an effort to address the growing and increasingly diverse data management needs of the NSF arctic research community. Core activities of an Integrated Arctic Data Management Services (IADS) will include identifying and cataloging all data produced by NSF arctic investigators and providing assistance and tools to meet requirements to publish data and associated metadata. IADS will ensure that data are well documented to guarantee preservation and to promote interdisciplinary reuse, and it will enable data discovery through diverse portals, including a new IADS portal for publishing investigator metadata and data, special project support, and access by the broad community. IADS will foster scientific synthesis through its support services and help-desk functions, and by enabling integration of datasets stemming from NSF projects with data generated through activities of other U.S. agencies and other countries. The IADS will tackle the complexity of data types emerging from the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), the Arctic Observing Network (AON) and other efforts to serve diverse stakeholder needs. Along with advanced search and discovery capabilities, the IADS will include services such as reformatting (re-projection of gridded data, point to grid conversions, options to download data in a variety of formats), subsetting and visualization. Visualization services will include demos and instructions on how to use Integrated Data Viewer, Google Earth and other tools. Broader Impacts: The core operation of this activity represents broader impacts. IADS will make its data holdings discoverable and usable, promote scientific synthesis and foster interagency collaboration crucial to meeting SEARCH objectives. Through activities and coordination with SEARCH/AON leadership via workshops and other venues, data management will be elevated to an integral part of scientific research. Support of groups before they go to the field will include metadata education, instruction on how to organize a data set before publishing, and provision of software tools to take to the field. The rewards of these various activities will be better data stewardship, services and data integration capabilities to benefit the arctic research community in coming years and decades.