Argentinean National Antarctic Data Centre

1. ArgentineanNational Antarctic Data Centre Diego Gómez Izquierdo diegogi@dna.gov.ar SCDAM 6 Meeting Auckland – New Zealand

2. Argentinean NADC Report • The Argentinean National Antarctic Data Centre (Centro de Datos Antárticos – Argentina) was established on October 12, 2000. • Since its creation, has contributed to the information exchange to the Antarctic Treaty System and the International Scientific Community. • Since 2011, Argentina hosts ADMAP (Antarctic Digital Magnetic Anomaly Project) website (SCAR Standing Scientific Group on GeoSciences (SSG-GS))

3. Argentinean NADC Report Latest News • Update on Argentinean Sea Data System (SNDM - Sistema Nacional de Datos del Mar) • Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories Law • New IAA facilities

4. Argentinean NADC Report Latest News - Update on Argentinean Sea Data System • The Argentinean Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation has been working for several years now on the idea of a National Sea Data System (SNDM) to bring the benefits related to sharing this information both to local and international scientific comunity. • For this reason, an Advisory Committee was appointed to determine how to establish this future system. • Two existing portals were highlighted as potential platforms: SeaDataNet and IODE Ocean Data Portal (ODP). With all the information received and inquiries made to this portals, the Advisory Committee recommended to use the ODP technologies for the establishment of the National Sea Data System.

5. Argentinean NADC Report Latest News - Update on Argentinean Sea Data System • After a joint work and training between those responsible for the IODE ODP Project and representatives from the Argentinean Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, plus the IT personnel from the Institutions that conform the National Sea Data System (SNDM), the National Sea Data System Portal was launched on October 2013 (http://portal.mincyt.gob.ar/portal/) • With the release of the Portal, Argentina is also a data contributor to the IODE ODP Project as a node on this network.

6. Argentinean NADC Report Latest News - Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories Law • The law (No. 26.899) was approved in late 2013 • This law still needs a regulatory decree to become effective • Argentina is the second country in the world to have this kind of regulation

7. Argentinean NADC Report Latest News - Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories Law In general terms, the law aims to: • Give Free and Open Access to national scientific and technological production (Both publications and primary data) • Provide researchers due credit (bibliographic + data citation) • Ensure present and future availability, preserving scientific and technological production (Provide long term availability and preservation)

8. Argentinean NADC Report Latest News - Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories Law The law: • Passes the management responsibility on data & publications to the Institutions to which researchers / students belongs • Defines a maximum period of 5 years to publish the primary data and 6 months for publications. It also contemplates special cases (patents, sensible data, etc.) • Requests for a Data Management Plan, that should be formulated by the financing entity of an activity

9. Argentinean NADC Report Latest News – New IAA facilities New offices for the Argentinean Antarctic Institute (IAA), including several laboratories for different scientific disciplines

10. Argentinean NADC Thanks for your attention Diego Gómez Izquierdo diegogi@dna.gov.ar