HR: 0800h
AN: C21A-0963    [Abstracts]
TI: Glaciological Data Management from IGY57 to IPY07 - Lessons from the WDC Glaciology Boulder
AU: Barry, R G
EM: barry@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AU: * Weaver, R L
EM: weaverr@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AU: Parsons, M A
EM: parsons@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AB: In 2007 the International Polar Year will commence. It is certain that the numerous multidisciplinary field experiments and other research programs that will generate new data streams and hence a need for data management. New concepts for data management are being vetted in journals and at scientific meetings ranging from centralized to highly distributed topologies, and with varying metadata and data format standards. The WDC Glaciology Boulder was created to house, curate, and distribute data from the IPY's predecessor, the International Geophysical Year in 1957. Data management services have evolved from collections of printed reports, journals and photographs when WDC Glaciology was transferred to Boulder in 1976 to complex database driven digital data management systems. We will describe the 40 plus year WDC experience, with a view towards addressing the challenges of the up-coming IPY.
DE: 9310 Antarctica
DE: 9315 Arctic region
DE: 1823 Frozen ground
DE: 1827 Glaciology (1863)
DE: 1863 Snow and ice (1827)
SC: Cryosphere [C]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting