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'Unstructured Data' Practices in Polar Institutions and Networks: a Case Study with the Arctic Options Project

Authors
  • Paul Arthur Berkman

Abstract

Arctic Options: Holistic Integration for Arctic Coastal-Marine Sustainability is a new three-year research project to assess future infrastructure associated with the Arctic Ocean regarding: (1) natural and living environment; (2) built environment; (3) natural resource development; and (4) governance. For the assessments, Arctic Options will generate objective relational schema from numeric data as well as textual data. This paper will focus on the ‘long tail of smaller, heterogeneous, and often unstructured datasets’ that ‘usually receive minimal data management consideration’,as observed in the 2013 Communiqué from the International Forum on Polar Data Activities in Global Data Systems.

Year: 2014
Volume 13
Page/Article: PDA64-PDA71
DOI: 10.2481/dsj.IFPDA-11
Published on Oct 10, 2014
Peer Reviewed