Masaki Kanao

The Polar Environmental Data Science Center (PEDSC) of the Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research (DS), the Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) has a responsibility to manage and publish the data involving Japanese research activities as one of a National Antarctic Data Center (NADC). The data policy of PEDSC was established in February 2007, based on the requirements of the Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). At the International Polar Year (IPY2007-2008), a significant number of multi-disciplinary data have been compiled. These collected data/metadata have a tight collaboration with the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD), the Polar Information Commons (PIC), as well as several data centers belonging to the World Data System (WDS). In terms of data activities in polar communities of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), tighter linkages of data/metadata sharing within the Asian Forum for Polar Sciences (AFoPS) countries has been discussed and should be further promoted by the involved Asian countries, in particular China, India, South Korea, Malaysia and Japan. In this presentation, a decade of history of polar data management is demonstrated, in particular focusing on data/metadata sharing, international collaboration among global data bodies and initiatives, data publication and citation, as well as data journal issues (Polar Data Journal).