Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor ZeeonderzoekRoyal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research 1 NIOZ is an institute of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) The Netherlands Antarctic Data Ira van den Broek Data Management Group NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Polar Data Management in the Netherlands Datasets Other activities – a project information system New call for proposals 2

Datasets, statistics Last two years still mainly IPY projects GCMD main metadata catalogue 14 dataset descriptions in AMD portal 23 dataset descriptions in IPY portal (10 antarctic, 13 arctic) Only a fraction of data freely accessible Some datasets are claimed by several data centers e.g. GEOTRACES, Polarstern cruise: GEOTRACES data center (project), PanGaea (ship), NIOZ (scientists, funding) 3

Other activities Example: Abisko project department of Systems Ecology at VU University, Amsterdam long term (+10y) project of field observations and experiments on permafrost (Abisko, N. Sweden) lack of central information about projects, field visit logs notebook in field station, log forms in Word sitting on various desktops or lost,.... solution: web-based application overview of field visits in the past functionality to add field visit details and log forms 4

Abisko Project Application - start page 5

Abisko Project Application - overview 6

Abisko Project Application – field visit details 7

Abisko Project Application – application details 8

Abisko Project Application – log details 9

Abisko Project Application – add information 10

NPPP New Netherlands Polar Program Call for new project proposals by NWO* NIOZ Data Management Group more actively involved questions about data management in grant applications paragraph on data management in terms and conditions for grants Additionally: NWO is changing its policy, claiming co- ownership of data and demanding that data be published *: NWO - Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research 11