USAP-DC provides a hybrid repository for diverse research data and project metadata from NSF-funded Antarctic expeditions. The repository follows community standards to ensure data are citable, shareable, and discoverable, linking to distributed data sources. It is operated by AMD_USAPDC and was last updated in November 2022.
Use Cases
- Discovering Antarctic research datasets based on project metadata and links to distributed repositories.
- Tracking research outputs and data products over the lifetime of a USAP-funded project.
- Ensuring data re-usability and compliance with International Antarctic Treaty sharing goals based on described community standards.
- Learning data management best practices for new investigators through described tutorials and conference outreach.
Strengths
- Data is preserved following community best practices and standards for metadata and access.
- Project catalog is designed to consolidate information over a project's lifetime, simplifying tracking for collaborative groups.
- Repository provides full open access to interfaces for searching and downloading data.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Last updated 2022-11-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC), operated by AMD_USAPDC.
- Collection Method
- Data and metadata collected from NSF-funded researchers working in Antarctica.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2022-11-30 00:00:00
- Geography
- Antarctic region.