Services
Transnational access to infrastructure
POLARIN partners operate world-class research infrastructure in the Arctic and Antarctic, which result from a long history of polar research and significant investments made by national polar programmes. For the first time ever, POLARIN will provide Transnational Access to a set of complementary and multidisciplinary European and International research infrastructure covering both poles. Access to these will be granted as transnational access either in person or remote. Challenge-driven access calls will be launched to allow access provision to integrated and customised infrastructure and services. Multi-platform access to different kinds of infrastructures will ensure that multidisciplinary research projects can integrate results from multiple realms.
Call will be open to access:
– 27 Arctic stations,
– 11 Antarctic stations
– 12 Research vessels including icebreakers
– 1 deep-sea observatory, 2 observational networks and 15 key observatories associated to research stations
– 4 Ice and sediment core repositories
Virtual access - Data Portal
POLARIN will offer user friendly free online access to scientific data and metadata via virtual access (VA) through a single-entry portal to 7 data infrastructures, 2 observational networks and 10 research stations and their associated observatories in both polar regions. A unified semantically consistent virtual data catalogue with machine interfaces will be developed and virtual access will be permanently open during the project lifetime.
Training
POLARIN will develop training programmes to ensure that early career researchers, professionals and research infrastructure (RI) users are able to fully exploit the services that the RIs are offering. It will implement a series of online seminars and other training resources to teach current and futures users of RIs on how to plan their field work campaigns/cruises, to optimally use the scientific equipment and to act in a sustainable way. A dedicated training programme on data management and data processing (data stewardship) will complement this training. In addition, POLARIN will implement a safety training under polar conditions compliant with the Polar Code, to ensure that PIs of polar expeditions are able to deal with emergency situations.
POLARIN Data Hub - Data Access and services
POLARIN will provide improved access to polar data by harmonising data management standards and workflows covering the complete life cycle of data from acquisition to long-term archiving. POLARIN will concentrate on reducing the fragmentation of data landscape and in improving the consumption of data.
Access to metadata, data and data services will be offered user-friendly and free of charge to users, through a single-entry portal. Such a centralized Data Hub will be implemented to provide advanced functionalities and tools for data exploration and integration.
