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

南极洲的科学数据是宝贵的，往往是独特的研究资产。这些数据的保存增加了用于获取的重大公共投资的回报，使未来能够重新用于新的分析，并支持科学的可重复性，确保科学出版物背后的观察结果可供他人审查。美国南极计划数据中心（USAP-DC）通过提供南极地区各种研究数据的存储库，为利用NSF极地计划办公室资助获得的研究数据的保存和可重复性做出贡献。USAP-DC为研究人员提供了一个共享数据的空间，并帮助他们使数据尽可能地可查找、可解释、可互操作和可复制（FAIR）。USAP-DC能够通过基于Web的搜索和地图界面查找和访问数据集，并通过与其他搜索工具和目录广泛共享和分发不同数据集的元数据信息。通过对搜索和下载数据的接口的完全开放访问，USAP-DC使NSF资助的南极洲研究产生的各种数据产品公开可用，从而支持NSF使命提供广泛的数据访问，并使其能够使用和重复使用。该中心还旨在通过与学生和来自代表性不足群体的早期职业研究人员合作，促进对数据资源的访问，以提高数据素养和参与南极科学。新的发展将旨在鼓励提交更符合公平原则的数据。这包括数据提交的教程和最佳实践指南，以及为数据集建立公平分数。该分数将向数据提供者提供关于其数据的可查找性、可解释性、互操作性和可重用性的反馈。此外，我们还将对用户界面和搜索功能进行全面检查，以保持设计的最新性，并进一步扩展数据集的可查找性和可用性。这包括为特定数据集类型开发预览功能，以及为用户提供更详细位置信息的选项。该项目由地球科学理事会和高级网络基础设施办公室合作共同资助，以支持AI/地球科学中的ML和开放科学活动。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Scientific data from Antarctica are valuable, often unique research assets. Preservation of these data increases the return on the significant public investment for acquisition, enabling future re-use for new analyses, and supports scientific reproducibility ensuring that observations behind scientific publications are available for others to review. The US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC) contributes to the preservation and discoverability of research data acquired with funding from NSF’s Office of Polar Programs by providing a repository for diverse research data from the Antarctic region. USAP-DC provides a space for researchers to share their data and assists them in making their data as Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible (FAIR) as possible. USAP-DC enables finding and accessing datasets through web-based search and map interfaces, and by sharing and distributing metadata information of the different datasets widely with other search tools and catalogs. With full open access to interfaces to search for and download data, USAP-DC makes a wide range of data products resulting from NSF-funded research in Antarctica publicly available and thus supports the NSF mission to provide broad access to data and enable their use and reuse. The USAP-DC also aims to increase data literacy and participation in Antarctic science by working with students and early career researchers from under-represented groups to facilitate access to data resources.USAP-DC will continue to provide and improve a broad range of data repository and discovery services. New developments will be designed to encourage data submissions that are more aligned with the FAIR principles. This includes tutorials and best practice guides for data submissions as well as establishing a FAIRness score for datasets. This score will provide feedback to data providers on how Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable their data are. In addition, we will overhaul the user interface and search functions to keep the designs current and further expand findability and usability of datasets. This includes the development of preview functions for specific dataset types and options for users to provide more detailed location information.This project is co-funded by a collaboration between the Directorate for Geosciences and Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to support AI/ML and open science activities in the geosciences.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.