ACADIS

Status Report: September 2014 - March 2015

Mohan Ramamurthy, Sean Arms, Jeff Weber

Strategic Focus Areas

Community Services supports the following goals described in Unidata Strategic Plan:

  1. Enable widespread, efficient access to geoscience data
    The ACADIS Data Portal is creating an effective way to access Arctic data
  2. Develop and provide open-source tools for effective use of geoscience data
    Unidata is creating an ASCII to netCDF translation tool that will allow a large amount of Arctic data to be translated to netCDF CF
  3. Provide cyberinfrastructure leadership in data discovery, access, and use
    ACADIS is an exemplar for data portals
  4. Build, support, and advocate for the diverse geoscience community
    ACADIS continues to champion useful access to data holdings

Background Information

The new Advanced Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (ACADIS) is a joint effort by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), UNIDATA, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to provide data archival, preservation and access for all projects funded by NSF's Arctic Science Program (ARC). ACADIS builds on the CADIS project that supported the Arctic Observing Network (AON). This portal will continue to be a gateway for AON data and is being expanded to include all NSF ARC data.

Activities Since the Last Status Report

  • Unidata is moving forward with our contribution to homogenize the data for ease of re-use by the larger scientific comunity. This is being addressed with the Rosetta project, Rosetta's status report can be found here
  • The ACADIS project is wrapping up year 4 funding. NSF has decided that the management of Arctic Data will be recompeted, and the solicitation has recently been released.
  • The ACADIS project has been asked to submit a budget for a six month extension to ensure that archival of Arctic data still occurs during the gap between the end of year 4 funding (June 2015) and the new NSF award (FY 2016).

Planned Activities

Ongoing Activities

The ACADIS team is currently working on submission of a proposal for the recompete of the archiving and management of Arctic data (LoI: April 17, 2015, Full Proposal: May 18, 2015).