The ITO is working closely with the polar research community to create a single user interface for researchers, community members and data managers to search across numerous polar repositories in a single query. The goals of this federated search project is to create a generalizable open-source solution that others can use for other searches; to be able to be hosted and deployed in as many places as possible; to make Antarctic as well as Arctic data available; to be usable even on poor internet connections; and to be a project that helps data repository owners meet Science On Schema metadata standards, or meets them halfway when they are unable to do so. This has been a two-prong approach: support for semantic harmonization and markup, and creating a federated search portal.
This website is a tool that is used to query and view SDO-Metadata crosswalks. It is hosted on RDA’s GitHub site.
Pilot Polar Federated Search
The Pilot Polar Federated Search was the first deployment of what would become the Polar Data Search. The first year of the development process can be read about in the project milestone paper: “Polar Pilot Federated Search Roadmap: Year 1 in Review.”