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CRYSYS 2006. Canadian Cryospheric Information Network By the CRYSYS Community Friday, March 3, 2006 Cambridge, UK.
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CRYSYS 2006 Canadian Cryospheric Information Network By the CRYSYS Community Friday, March 3, 2006 Cambridge, UK
National Consultation on Access to Scientific Data March 2005Almost fifty years ago, the great writer and futurist H. G. Wells was very close to capturing both the development of the Internet and World-Wide Web, and their potential impact on knowledge and research. “Few people as yet, outside the world of expert librarians and museum curators and so forth, know how manageable well-ordered facts can be made, however multitudinous, and how swiftly and completely even the rarest visions and the most recondite matters can be recalled, once they have been put in place in a well-ordered scheme of reference and reproduction.”– H. G. Wells “World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia” Contribution to the new Encyclopédie FrançaiseAugust 1937
NCASRD’s Vision of Canada’s place in the global research enterprise of 2020. Canada is the centre of a global knowledge grid. It has become the desired nation with which to partner in research, because of its national system of open access to research data. Through this system and the collaborative culture it has generated, Canadian creativity and innovation are best in class worldwide. Open, but secure, access to powerful and globally assembled data has transformed scientific research. Researchers routinely analyze problems of previously unimaginable complexity in months, rather than decades, leading to revelations of knowledge and discovery that have enriched quality of life, transformed healthcare, improved social equality, provided greater security, broadened decision perspectives for social, environmental, and economic policy and advancement, and transformed the advancement of human knowledge.
Data Canada, Recommendation 13 Research councils, and all other public-sector research funding agencies and departments require that project and grant applications include a data management plan, as well as specifically identified funding that will ensure quality, integrity, accessibility and accountability. A funding condition should be the inclusion of a well-constructed plan for data acquisition, management, access and preservation. Adherence to such plans should also become a non-competitive performance metric for the project and gateway for subsequent grant applications. Councils should recognize these as added costs to the main thrusts of research projects.
CCIN Partners Canadian Space Agency Environment Canada (MSC) GeoConnections (NRCan) Noetix Research Inc. Silicon Graphics University of Waterloo
Objectives Develop capabilities for monitoring and understanding regional and larger scale variations in cryospheric variables of importance to Canada - temporal change = historical archives Improve understanding of the role of the cryosphere in the climate system - multivariable data sets Promoting the assembly, maintenance and analysis of key historical, operational and research cryospheric data sets to support climate monitoring and model validation - access to information and rescue of historical information
Milestones 2001 - Established a working FGDC metadata catalogue accessible through WWW via CCIN and GeoConnections by using the Z39.50 protocol 2002 - Established all CRYSYS web services at the University of Waterloo handling data warehousing, current information publication, education and outreach content through ccin.ca, socc.ca, crysys.ca 2003 - Launched a new national snow information service called: The National Snow Information System for Water 2004 - Created new online tools and services for real-time data mining (snow and SWE data) 2005 - Launched new outreach programs directed toward the general public: SOCC for Kids, and the Cryosphere Learning Centre
Web Organizational Structure Education Why study the Cryosphere? Cryosphere Climate Interaction Future of the Cryosphere Science Research Areas Publications Scientists Network Links to other cryosphere Networks and resources CRYSYS CRYSYS website (www.crysys.ca) Data Centre Data repository for CRYSYS Available public access Historical/rescued and real-time data Tools Metadata Browser Data Browser Download and Order Network Metadata registry with other data centres world wide CCIN website (www.ccin.ca) SOCC website (www.socc.ca) Current Information Snow, Lake Ice, Sea Ice, Glaciers, Permafrost Outreach Programs (SOCC Kids, CLC) Tools (Real-time/current) Snow cover maps/statistics Ice conditions and Sea Ice Extent Network Links directly to historical data at CCIN
Initial CCIN System Architecture Metadata CCIN Oracle SGI DB Server CCIN Windows Web Server Z39.50 Protocol CCIN.CA Data Access Portal SOCC.CA State of the Canadian Cryosphere CRYSYS.CA GeoConn Search CCIN metadata via GeoConnections Browse Metadata Current Info Education Info
Current CCIN System Architecture CCIN metadata accessible via data centres listed below Local Datasets Remote Data/Link GCMD NSIDC Metadata (Oracle DB) NSIDC DISC CCIN Oracle SGI DB Server Registry links to major data centres XML Metadata DISC CCIN Windows Web Server GeoConn GeoConn CCIN.CA Data Access Portal SOCC.CA State of the Canadian Cryosphere Browse Metadata Download Data Shopping Cart Current Info Statistics Graphical Maps Access Portal RSS Metadata CRYSYS Server SOCC Kids! Learning Centre Media Centre
Publicity Frozen Facts The Globe and Mail December 17, 2005: Saturday F7 BY ANNE MCLLROY Waterloo research just frosty The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo) December 30, 2005: Friday LOCAL B1 BY BOB BURTT Taking the Polar Pulse Science Magazine 27 January, 2006: V311 No. 5760 (NetWatch) The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Online Tools & Services Metadata search and browsing via category Data browsing and download services Data ordering Automated data/metadata upload functionality Automated database connectivity via XML metadata schema SOCC for Kids Cryosphere Learning Centre Current lake ice conditions Current arctic sea ice extent Sea ice extent anomaly maps Current snow depth conditions Monthly snow cover statistics Annual snow cover statistics Regional snow indicator plots Canadian regional snow cover trends, 1955 to 2003 Canadian snow atlas Current SWE conditions SWE time series plots Latest SWE map for the Canadian Prairies Panted-averaged SWE maps for the Canadian prairies from 1978 High-resolution daily snow cover maps (MODIS) Monthly snow cover anomaly maps (NOAA)
Local Datasets Alexandra Fiord Autostation data Canadian Lakeice Database Canadian National Permafrost Database Canadian Snow Data CD by province Canadian weekly ice thickness dataset Collaborative Interdisciplinary Cryospheric Experiment (C-ICE) Daily Canadian Snow Inland Ice Cover Synthesis Maps Field Measurements of Snow Cover Parameters for Scaling Studies High Arctic Ice Cap Historical ice database (lakes, rivers, landfast ice sites) Hot Weather Creek Autostation Data INRS-ETE Snow Data INRS-ETE Snow Pit Measurements Ice coverage for the QEI, High Arctic International Arctic Buoy Program Charts Landsat Data of Queen Elizabeth Islands Mackenzie Delta air and ground surface temperature database Marine wind prognosis charts and digital data NOAA Monthly Snow and Ice Cover Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Northern Manitoba Regional Snow Survey for AMSR-E Field Validation Polar Continental Shelf Project weather observation data base QEI Aerial Photos RADARSAT derived Ice motion data: Arctic Coverage RADARSAT derived Ice motion data: Great Lakes and East Coast of Canada Radarsat 1 Quebec Recent Canadian Work on Snow and Ice SWE maps for Canadian Prairies Seasonal Sea-Ice Monitoring and Modelling Site - SIMMS Snow Water Equivalent Snow on the ground by station Surface and upper air charts The State of the Arctic Cryosphere During the Extreme Warm Summer of 1998