The Canadian Consortium for Arctic Data Interoperability: Enabling Timely, Innovative and Internationally Leading-edge Research

Abstract:

The Canadian Consortium for Arctic Data Interoperability (CCADI) is an initiative that aims to advance the partnership of Canadian Arctic data centres through the development of an interconnected data management system that facilitates information discovery and knowledge synthesis, establishes standards and mechanisms for metadata and data sharing and enables interoperability among existing data platforms. Through the development of a national, distributed Arctic Research Data Infrastructure (ARDI), the CCADI team will address critical scientific questions that work to address Inuit needs for information on what is happening in their communities while finding ways to share and effectively use traditional knowledge to complement scientific data. The ARDI is being constructed using an amalgamation of international open standards (e.g. OGC, OpenSearch) along with numerous established data processing, semantic and visualization libraries and platforms. The ARDI will meet needs for information in and about the Arctic that are driven by scientific, operational, and societal imperatives as well as strategies, and programmes that contribute to understanding change and shaping policy.