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

来自南极洲的科学数据是宝贵的，往往是独特的研究资产。保存这些数据增加了重大公共投资获取的回报，使将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其他人审查。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，为保存和发现由美国国家科学基金会极地计划办公室资助的研究数据做出了贡献。USAP-DC为研究人员提供了一个共享数据的空间，并帮助他们使他们的数据尽可能地可查找、可访问、可互操作和可复制（FAIR）。USAP-DC可以通过基于web的搜索和地图接口，以及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来查找和访问数据集。通过完全开放的接口来搜索和下载数据，USAP-DC使NSF资助的南极研究产生的广泛的数据产品公开可用，从而支持NSF提供广泛的数据访问并使其能够使用和重用的使命。USAP-DC还旨在通过与来自代表性不足群体的学生和早期职业科学家合作，促进对数据资源的获取，从而提高对南极科学的数据素养和参与。USAP-DC将继续提供和改进广泛的数据存储库和发现服务。新的发展将旨在鼓励更符合公平原则的数据提交。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性评分。该分数将向数据提供者提供关于其数据的可查找性、可访问性、可互操作性和可重用性的反馈。此外，我们将彻底检查用户界面和搜索功能，以保持最新的设计，并进一步扩大数据集的可查找性和可用性。这包括开发特定数据集类型和选项的预览功能，以便用户提供更详细的位置信息。该项目由地球科学理事会和先进网络基础设施办公室共同资助，以支持地球科学领域的人工智能/机器学习和开放科学活动。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。

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.