Polar Data Forum V (PDF V) will be hosted by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and will be held both at the Aurora Innovation Centre in Cambridge, UK and online. The Forum follows International Data Week (IDW) to be held in Salzburg Austria October 23-26, 2023.
The meeting is co-organized by various polar partners, including the Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM), Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON), the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), and the World Data System, among others.
The focus of PDF V will be on improving large-scale data exchange and interoperability – between organisations and at the international level.
PDF V will consist of a series of workshops and hackathons from 30-31 October, followed by a 2-day plenary conference to be held 1-2 November 1st to support information exchange.
Registration and abstract submission is now open.
Themes
- Knowledge mobilization and decision making
- Collaborative production of data, information and knowledge
- FAIR data for the polar regions
- Vocabularies and semantic interoperability
- Data policy
- Data for modellers and remote sensing
- Logistical information management
- Barriers to data sharing / User needs
- New ships and real-time data in low connectivity locations
- Systems for digitally enabled observations
- Tools and Technologies for Data Management and Delivery