Supporting Antarctic Research with Ongoing Operations and Development of the USAP-DC Project Catalog and Data Repository

在南极洲工作的研究人员获得的样本和数据是宝贵的、独特的资产，通常需要大量和昂贵的后勤努力才能获得。保存这些数据增加了用于获取的重大公共投资的回报，使将来能够重新用于新的分析，并确保科学出版物背后的数据可供其他人审查。美国南极计划数据中心（USAP-DC）将为项目元数据和由美国国家科学基金会资助的研究人员从南极地区获得的各种研究数据提供一个开放学科的混合存储库，其他数据存储库不存在。此外，项目目录将为美国南极科学界提供一个单一的在线资源，以管理有关其研究活动的信息，并将项目元数据链接到南极数据所在的各种分布式存储库。在此过程中，USAP-DC将遵循社区最佳实践和标准，以确保数据可引用、可共享和可发现。它还将促进数据描述注册到南极总目录，以实现美国在《国际南极条约》下的数据共享目标。通过完全开放的接口来搜索和下载数据，USAP-DC将使美国国家科学基金会资助的南极研究产生的广泛数据产品不仅可供研究界使用，而且可供更广泛的公众使用。数据中心使用元数据和数据访问的社区标准进行操作，这有助于确保数据在未来的可重用性。新的项目目录旨在支持在项目的整个生命周期内对USAP奖励的研究产品的信息进行整合，这将使NSF项目经理，以及个人研究人员，特别是大型合作研究小组更容易跟踪作为其项目一部分产生的数据集和相关信息。通过教程和会议，USAP-DC将有助于提高认识，并告知研究界，特别是新的研究者关于数据管理最佳实践。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Samples and data obtained by researchers working in Antarctica are valuable, unique assets which typically require a substantial and expensive logistical effort to acquire. Preservation of these data increases the return on the significant public investment for acquisition, enabling future re-use for new analyses, and ensure that data behind scientific publications are available for others to review. The US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC) will provide an open-disciplinary hybrid repository for project metadata and the diverse research data obtained from the Antarctic region by NSF funded researchers for which other data repositories do not exist. In addition, a Project Catalog will provide a single online resource for the US Antarctic scientific community to manage information about their research activities and will link project metadata to the various distributed repositories where Antarctic data resides. In doing so, the USAP-DC will follow community best practices and standards to ensure data are citable, shareable, and discoverable. It will also facilitate registration of data descriptions into the Antarctic Master Directory to meet US goals for data sharing under the International Antarctic Treaty. With full open access to interfaces to search for and download data, USAP-DC will make a wide range of data products resulting from NSF funded research in Antarctica available not only to the research community but also to the broader public. The data center is operated using community standards for metadata and data access which helps ensure data re-usability into the future. The new Project catalog, which is designed to support consolidation of information on research products of USAP awards over the lifetime of a project, will make it simpler for NSF program managers, but also for individual researchers and especially larger collaborative research groups to keep track of datasets and related information produced as part of their projects. Through tutorials and meetings at conferences USAP-DC will contribute to raise awareness and inform the research community, especially new investigators about data management best practices.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.