SCAR EXCOM 2007 WP13: Report on Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management (JCADM) Popular

SCAR EXCOM 2007 WP13: Report on Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management (JCADM)

Overview

This report covers the period between the SCAR meetings in Hobart (July 2006) and the SCAR Executive meeting in Washington, DC (July 2007).
During this period, JCADM:

• held its annual meeting in Hobart
• participated in the SCAR Cross linkages workshop in Rome
• continued populating the Antarctic Master Directory (AMD)
• advised the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD, the host of the AMD) on future directions of the AMD
• established closer involvement with the SCAR SRPs and SSGs
• started working on the SCAR Data Strategy
• continued to involve more countries in Antarctic data management
• advised the ATS secretariat on data issues
• IPY data management
• started preparing the next JCADM annual meeting, which will be held in conjunction with a JCADM capacity building workshop in Rome, Italy, Sept. 2007