Abstract
Abstract. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) jointly intend to build a Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS). This paper addresses the required data flow infrastructure. SOOS will use a system of systems approach, using existing observation programmes and projects. Data should be submitted to professional data centres. The problem arises how to link all these data centres and get a central overview of the SOOS data as well as direct access to the data. The Netherlands National Oceanographic Data Committee (NL-NODC) has successfully built a national distributed oceanographic data acccess infrastructure, adopting and implementing technology developed by the European SeaDataNet project. The Dutch system has been operational since early 2009. The conclusion is that the SeaDataNet technology can be used to build an operational, distributed data delivery infrastructure, featuring all elements required by the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS).
Highlights
Nowadays, all big projects in observational science recognize the importance of data preservation and the data management required to achieve that
Data resulting from a project may be seen as “the most important single outcome of (a) programme” (International Council for Science, 2004) and need special care to be preserved for futureuse
Established during the International Geophysical Year 1957–1958 (IGY) by the International Council for Science (ICSU) and starting with 12 member countries, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) has grown to 31 member countries and 9 Union members
Summary
All big projects in observational science recognize the importance of data preservation and the data management required to achieve that. Data resulting from a project may be seen as “the most important single outcome of (a) programme” (International Council for Science, 2004) and need special care to be preserved for future (re)use. The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) can be considered to be SCAR’s oceanographic counterpart. SCAR and SCOR are jointly planning to build a Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS). Instrumentation will be deployed in remote locations, where, until now, measurements have hardly been possible to make (e.g. under sea-ice) Very importantly, it will use a system of systems approach, combining the efforts of many existing programmes and coordinating the development of new programmes and projects. The question is whether there are there any existing elements which may form the SOOS Data Management System?
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