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IPY Data and Information Service
The website is available at:
http://ipydis.org/
The International Polar Year Data and Information Service (IPYDIS) is a
global partnership of data centers, archives, and networks working to
ensure proper stewardship of IPY and related data. The National Snow and
Ice Data Center acts as a coordination office for IPYDIS to ensure the
long-term preservation of broad, interdisciplinary, and non-expert
access to IPY data. Another coordination office focused on near-real
time and operational data streams is based at the Norwegian
Meteorological Institute. Other national and international coordination
offices are also being established.
The IPYDIS website, which includes a discussion forum, help desk, and
other resources, is available at:
http://ipydis.org/
The IPYDIS seeks to actively engage and support the arctic community.
Advice, critique, and support of IPYDIS by arctic researchers are
welcome and encouraged. IPY project coordinators are requested to
provide IPYDIS with a data management point of contact and information
about data archiving arrangements. This is essential to identifying IPY
data repositories and other IPYDIS participants.
For further information, please contact:
Mark A. Parsons
Phone: 303-492-2359
E-mail: parsonsm [at] nsidc.org