PDF3: 3rd Polar Data Forum Finnish Meteorological Institute Helsinki, Finland, November 18-22, 2019 |
Conference website | https://polar-data-forum.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdf3 |
Abstract registration deadline | September 6, 2019 |
Submission deadline | September 6, 2019 |
Forum registration deadline | October 18, 2019 |
List of Themes
Posters and presentations will be accepted on a wide variety of data, information and knowledge related issues. Abstracts will be reviewed primarily for their relevance or connection to the polar regions and polar activities. While talks or posters on general topics will be considered, priority will be given to abstracts focused on experiences, research, operations, projects, programs or topics that take place in or are about the polar regions. Of particular interest are talks that report on how broader, regional, disciplinary or global standards, protocols and methodologies are, or could be applied, to the polar domain (e.g. how does your polar work link to broader efforts to make data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). In keeping with past community events, we see the polar data system as part of the broader global system.
Themes of interest include:
- Polar community and network building
- Data discovery and federated search
- All aspects of data interoperability (syntactical, structural, semantic, social)
- Standards and protocols to improve data access
- Analysis of user needs
- Enabling data reuse for multiple audiences
- Ethical utilization of data derived from Indigenous knowledge and community based monitoring
- Data management for polar social science and humanities
- Cloud computing and other advanced analytical methods and platforms (i.e. machine learning, AI)
- Sensor webs and observing systems
- Critical studies on polar data management (e.g. Science and Technology Studies)
- Recognition and attribution in data systems
- Data management for major projects (e.g. Southern Ocean Observing System, MOSAiC, Arctic Supersites etc.)
- Data policy
- Other themes related to polar data broadly defined (i.e. including information and knowledge)
Abstract Guidelines
The Third Polar Data Forum will provide a venue for a limited number of oral presentations and a larger number of poster presentation over the course of two days (November 18th, 19th). All presentations must be original and should not be made for another conference. There may be an opportunity to make additional presentations during workshop and side meeting activities, however these presentations will be organized separately.
During the submission process you will be asked to provide information for all authors including First Name, Last Name, E-Mail, Country, Organization, and Web Page. Additionally, you are asked to provide an abstract title, an abstract of 200 words or less, and a minimum of three keywords. Please see the "List of Themes" and related abstract guidelines below.
Please provide an abstract of no more than 200 words clearly outlining the following:
- Requested presentation format (Oral or Poster);
- one or more themes from the list above (Note: Themes are for general session planning only. themes will be revisited as part of the abstract review process and your presentation may be moved to another session if appropriate);
- objectives of the research, project, or theoretical activitiy ;
- description of how the activity was carried out or how the new ideas were generated;
- summary of the results or outcomes of the work being reported;
- statement of the principal conclusions. A figure/table/photograph, if applicable, can be included. The form provides an option to upload an attachment.
Presentation Guidelines
- Oral Presentations
Oral presentations will be 12 minutes long, with up to three minutes for questions between presentations and discussion at the end of the session. ***Oral presenters: Please be prepared to provide your presentation file (in PowerPoint, Keynote, or .pdf format) to conference organizers by the end of the day 13 November 2019, so that it can be pre-loaded on to the presentation laptop and included in the live web cast.
- Posters
Poster presentations can be up to the following size: 1160 mm (46 inches) wide x 1140 mm (45 inches) high. Posters will be displayed in the meeting room. The poster boards will be available starting at 11:00 AM on Monday, 18 November. We encourage you to hang your poster as early as you can, to maximize the time available for viewing. To retain your poster, please take it down by 5:00 PM on Tuesday, 19 November. Otherwise, it will be removed and recycled.
Two highly interactive presentation sessions have been scheduled in the Final Agenda. Poster presenters will be invited to briefly introduce their poster (1-2 minutes) to all Forum participants at the beginning of your assigned poster session. ***Poster presenters: Please be prepared to provide one presentation slide (in PowerPoint, Keynote, or .pdf format) to conference organizers by the end of the day 13 November 2019, so that it can be pre-loaded on to the presentation laptop and included in the live web cast.
Venue and Organization
The Forum will be hosted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute and co-organized with regional partners including the INTAROS project in conjunction with the EU Arctic Cluster, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and other European organizations. The Forum will be co-convened by the IASC-SAON Arctic Data Committee, Southern Ocean Observing System, Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management, the World Data System and other organizations engaged in polar data management. More details can be found at https://polar-data-forum.org/
Contact
Practical questions about the abstract submission process should be e-mailed to Aikio Riitta . Questions about conference themes or other substantive aspects related to abstracts e-mailed to Peter Pulsifer.