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ITO at 2023 SOOS Symposium

The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Symposium is just over a week away — August 14th through 18th with a bonus SOOS Data Management Sub-Committee… Read More »ITO at 2023 SOOS Symposium

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New Arctic Data Committee co-chair from ITO

by CJ Woodford
2023-07-212023-07-21
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ITO research associate Chantelle Verhey has recently joined the Arctic Data Committee (ADC) as a co-chair, and is one of the few Canadian members.

A Glimpse into the Concept of Wildfire as a Shared Arctic Variable (SAV): Summary of Experiences

by Web Admin
2023-06-292023-06-29
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ITO Research Associate Mike Morrison says farewell to the WDS-ITO in this good-bye blog post summarizing his work on Shared Arctic Variables.

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New publication: Polar Data Forum IV – An Ocean of Opportunities

by CJ Woodford
2023-06-232023-06-23
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Research associate Chantelle Verhey and ITO alumni Dr. Karen Payne and Soulaine Theocharides are co-authors on Polar Data Forum IV – An Ocean of Opportunities in Data Science Journal, reporting on the forum’s hackathon sessions.

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WDS-ITO participates in IAC for DSWS 2023

by CJ Woodford
2023-05-292024-01-18
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WDS-ITO staff member Chantelle Verhey is helping organize the 2023 International Symposium on Data Science (DSWS), targeting improved discoverability and reusability of scientific research data.

Double sided arrows move between a box saying "Federated Search App Backend" and a box saying "Federated search App User Interface". a blue cylinder labelled "Gleaner Triplestore" and a icon labeled "DataOne Index". The Gleaner Triplestore is connected via a double pointed arrow to an icon labelled "Gleaner.io". Gleaner.io is connected via a double arrow to a cloud labelled "other repositories" with icons inside depicting a whale, scatter and line charts, the artic ice sheets, and a snowflake. The DataOne Index is connected via a double-pointed arrow to a cloud labelled "Science-on-schema/DataOne repositories", with icons inside depicting orcas, people hiking and snowmobiling, wind, seals, penguins, bar charts, line charts, and a snowflake. The Federated search app user interface is connected via double connected arrows to icons of a laptop, mobile phone, and computer monitor. The Federated search app user interface box, the federated search app backend box, the gleaner triplestore cynlinder, and the gleaner.io icon are within a red circle labelled "Kubernetes Deployment".

New ITO publication: Polar Federated Search article

by CJ Woodford
2023-05-152023-05-23
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The ITO’s Polar Federated Search article has been accepted and is openly available online.

WDS-ITO supports SAON ROADS Shared Arctic Variables

by Web Admin
2023-03-162023-05-23
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WDS-ITO is proud to support the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks Roadmap for Arctic Observing and Data Systems initiative via Shared Arctic Variables.

Polar to Global Hackathon – March 16, 2023

by CJ Woodford
2023-03-092023-11-08
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Join us for the Polar to Global Online Interoperability and Data Sharing Workshop/Hackathon on 16th March 2023 20-22 UTC.

ITO and POLDER at ASSW 2023

by CJ Woodford
2023-02-132024-01-18
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ITO staff Chantelle Verhey and Melinda Minch are travelling to Vienna, Austria to present on and support discussion around the POLDER Federated Search at the… Read More »ITO and POLDER at ASSW 2023

The POLDER Federated Search results page, showing the new addition of two side-by-side maps that appear before the listed results. The left map shows the Arctic, which is bare, and the right map shows the Antarctic, which has multiple overlapping orange rectangles of varying size.

December POLDER updates: Upcoming Workshops

by CJ Woodford
2022-12-142023-05-23
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Save the dates! WDS-ITO will be hosting two online workshops in early 2023 to help repositories work through the POLDER Schema.org Best Practice Guide version… Read More »December POLDER updates: Upcoming Workshops