PROGRAM: P-1

Title:

WDS COMMITTEE, SCIENCE COUNCIL OF JAPAN
T Watanabe1* T Iyemori2 I Kojima3 Y Murayama4
*1ICSU WDS International Programme Office, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei 184-8795, Japan
2WDC for Geomagnetism, Kyoto, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
3National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba 305-8560, Japan
4National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei 184-8795, Japan

Abstract:

WDS Committee, Science Council of Japan (http://takashiwatanabe.wixsite.com/wds-japan-en) is a national committee for ICSU World Data System (WDS, https://www.icsu-wds.org/), and organizing WDS-oriented activities in Japan. This committee has been established in 2011 by expanding former World Data Center (WDC) Committee of the Council to cover much wider disciplines after the fundamental idea of WDS (Watanabe, 2009). The principal members of the WDS Committee are representatives of former seven WDCs and other data centers having interest in the activity of WDS. Representatives of CODATA National Committee of Science Council of Japan are also involved in discussions on collaboration between WDS and CODATA. We also invited data scientists and domain scientists conducting data analysis to introduce opinions of principal data users of our data holdings. Annual domestic WDS symposia have been held since 2011, and a series of international symposia have been organized by the WDS Committee biannually since 2011 also (Table 1).

Table 1: International symposia promoted by the WDS Committee, Science Council of Japan
WDS Conference Date Place
The 1st ICSU World Data System Conference - Global Data for Global Science 03-06 Sep. 2011 Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
International Forum on Polar Data Activities in Global Data Systems https://sites.google.com/a/icsu-wds.org/archive-international -forum-on-polar-data-activities-in-global-data-systems/ 15-16 Oct. 2013 National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo
SCOSTEP–WDS Workshop on Global Data Activities for the Research of Solar–Terrestrial Variability http://isds.nict.go.jp/scostep-wds.2015.org/ 28-30 Sep. 2015 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo
World Data System Asia-Oceania Conference 2017 http://wdc2.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wds2017/ 27-29 Sep. 2017 Kyoto University, Kyoto

The principal activities of the WDS Committee are:
  1. Establish WDS-oriented community in Japan
  2. Promote discussions for long-term preservation and provision of data archives
  3. Support Open-Data related activities in Japan
  4. Promote domestic and international symposia relating to WDS activities (Table 1)
  5. Provide a portal of databases opened by members of the Committee, particularly those of former WDCs in Japan (Table 2) , provisionally at http://takashiwatanabe.wixsite.com/wds-japan-en/data-portal
Although Japan has a long history of data activity under ICSU since the creation of the system of WDC in the IGY era (Korsmo, 2009) some of the former WDCs in Japan have gotten difficulty to move to WDS mainly by change of interest of host organizations and lack of human resources. It will be important to have a mechanism assure long-term preservation and provision of data holdings of these former WDCs. The data portal operated by the WDS Committee is a platform in trial to resolve the problem, as seen in Table 2. Data holdings of these former WDCs can be accessed from the Web page of WDS Committee whose URL is given above.

Table 2: Data portals operated by members of WDS National Committee, Japan
Data Portal Host organization
WDC for Geomagnetism, Kyoto (WDS Regular Member) WDC for Geomagnetism, Kyoto, Data Analysis Center for Geomagnetism and Space Magnetism, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University http://wdc.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.html
WDC for Ionosphere and Space Weather (WDS Regular Member) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) http://wdc.nict.go.jp/IONO/wdc/index.html
WDC for Cosmic Rays Institute of Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University http://cidas.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/WDCCR/
WDC for Airglow Solar Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory, Japan http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/en/wdc/wdc.html
WDC for Aurora National Institute of Polar Research, Japan (NIPR) http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~aurora/
WDC for Solar Radio Emission Nobeyama Radio Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory, Japan http://solar.nro.nao.ac.jp/norp/index.html
WDC for Scientific Satellites Institute od Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA) http://www.darts.isas.jaxa.jp/index.html.en
Kakioka Geomagnetic Observatory Kakioka Geomagnetic Observatory, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) http://www.kakioka-jma.go.jp/en/index.html
Astronomical Observation Data Service/Analysis Service Portal Astronomical Data Center, National Astronomical Observatory, Japan (NAOJ) http://www.adc.nao.ac.jp/E/index-e.htm
JAMSTEC Databases Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) http://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/
ICSWSE Database International Center for Space Weather Science and Education, Kyushu University http://data.icswse.kyushu-u.ac.jp/
Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork (IUGONET) Tohoku University, National Institute of Polar Research, Nagoya University, Kyoto University, and Kyushu University http://www.iugonet.org/?lang=en
Arctic Data Archive System (ADS) National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/portal/index.action
RISH Data Server (WDS Regular Member) Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University http://database.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index-e.html

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