The Data Management section of the web site is under construction.

Suggestions and donations of items for inclusion are welcome.
Contact Josh Klauder, ALIAS Project Manager:  josh@arcus.org

In the meantime here are some useful links:

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The World Data Center System

The World Data Centers (WDCs) were established in 1957 to provide archives for the data gathered during the International Geophysical Year (IGY). WDCs now operate under the auspices of the International Council for Science (ICSU) for the benefit of the international scientific community and provide a mechanism for international exchange of data. WDCs exchange data freely among themselves, while provision of WDC data to an individual scientist or institution normally requires a charge to cover the costs of duplication and handling.

Each WDC archives data for one of 32 specific research disciplines. A listing of the centers, by discipline, with contact information and web page addresses can be found here, in the WDC web site. The site also provides a thorough system guide, available in HTML, MS Word, and PDF formats.

The web site of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides many links to data resources. Those relating to the Arctic can be found on NOAA's Arctic Theme Page.

In the "Science" menu, choose links for Data and Data Centers.

Established by NOAA as a national information and referral center in support of polar and cryospheric research, NSIDC archives and distributes digital and analog snow and ice data. NSIDC also maintains information about snow cover, avalanches, glaciers, ice sheets, freshwater ice, sea ice, ground ice, permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology, and ice cores.

• NSIDC is part of the University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, (CIRES)and is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) through a cooperative agreement.
   
• NSIDC also supports the National Science Foundation through the Arctic System Science Data
  Coordination Center (see below) and the Antarctic Glaciological Data Center.
   
• NSIDC serves as one of eight Distributed Active Archive Centers funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to archive and distribute data from NASA's past and current satellites and field measurement programs.

 
• The NSIDC Data Help Center is intended to help users find data, access data set tools available for use with specific data sets, and learn about data formats and product media. The Help Center also provides access to product-specific FAQs.

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The Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Data Coordination Center

The Joint Office for Science Support (JOSS) at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) provides scientific, technical, and administrative support for field research anywhere in the world.

The JOSS Field Operations and Data Management section, includes web-based tools and workshops for scientists engaged in research programs. Specific JOSS data management capabilities include:

•  An on-line interactive data catalog archival and distribution system (CODIAC), which offers scientists a means to archive data while allowing others to identify datasets, view selected data and meta-data, and obtain data via the Internet or other media

 
•  The JOSS on-line field catalog, which provides participants the ability to submit —in near real-time—field reports, equipment status summaries, and data products that are valuable for in-field analysis. These logs can become the permanent record of field activities.

 
•  In addition, JOSS can work with the investigators to build composite datasets, form new datasets, or provide quality control processing for selected types of data.