The Arctic Data Center is the primary repository for the Arctic Section of the Office of Polar Programs. Our mission is to help the research community reproducibly preserve and discover all products of NSF-funded science in the Arctic, including data, metadata, software, and documents. In this video, you’ll learn how to navigate the catalog, and how to explore different fields in the metadata records.
The Arctic Data Center uses ORCID iDs to identify individuals associated with each data package. When submitting to the Arctic Data Center, an ORCiD is required for the submitter of each data package. ORCiDs are not required for all associated parties (contacts, additional creators, etc.), but are strongly encouraged, especially for the primary creator, so that proper identification and attribution can be given. Additionally, access to edit each data package can only be granted to individuals using ORCiDs. Therefore, we advise researchers to register and record ORCID iDs for each individual involved with the project during the initial stages of project development (i.e., within the data management plan of the project proposal).