Kinnvika_logo.jpgData Policy for the International Polar Year 2007-2008

Objective of the IPY data management

The objective of IPY 2007-2008 data management is to ensure the security, accessibility and free exchange of relevant data that both support current research and leave a lasting legacy.

Recognizing that the true value of scientific data is often realized long after they have been collected, and to ensure the lasting legacy of IPY, it is essential to ensure long-term preservation and sustained access to IPY data.

Submit your data and publications into the IPY databases

  • IPY metadata portal - describe the data you have collected during the Kinnvika project (to enter the metadata select AUTHORING TOOLS  from the upper menu). 
  • IPY Publication database - for publications, instructions and address for sending information on your publication is here.

 

Data availability and exchange
The IPY Joint Committee requires that IPY data are made available fully, freely, openly, and on the shortest feasible timescale.  IPY data are those data generated during the IPY timeframe by the specific projects endorsed by the ICSU/WMO Joint Committee as IPY projects.

Metadata are essential to the discovery, access, and effective use of data. All IPY data must be accompanied by a full set of metadata that completely document and describe the data. Metadata is submitted into the IPY metadata portal . 

Long term preservation of the data
All IPY data must be archived in their simplest, useful form and be accompanied by a complete metadata description. It is the responsibility of individual IPY projects to make arrangements with long-term archives to ensure the preservation of their data.

Arctic Centre can provide a central archive for the long-term preservation of the research data collected during the Kinnvika project. The data can also be preserved in the institutes collecting the data but Arctic Centre can serve as the central archive of the data.

Publications
An important legacy of IPY will be the publications documenting the planning, results, and achievements of IPY. To help preserve and understand this legacy and to help meet the education, outreach, and communication objectives of IPY, authors of publications related to IPY are encouraged to submit bibliographic information to the IPY Publication Database.

More information
This text is from the document "International Polar Year 2007-2008 Data Policy".  The full version of the documents can be downloaded from here. More information on the IPY data management is available at the IPY Data and Information Service website .

If you have any questions on data management please contact Arto Vitikka at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland (arto.vitikka at ulapland.fi).

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