Time: Day 4: 23 October 2025 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Lead: Mark Parsons
Description:
This session will explore strategic planning for the upcoming International Polar Year, focusing on scientific collaboration, data sharing, and aligning research efforts with global needs. Experts will discuss key priorities, interdisciplinary cooperation, and the development of open-access data frameworks to support policy and sustainability initiatives. Attendees will gain insights into how they can contribute to and engage with this global effort to advance polar science and address pressing environmental challenges.
Workshop Agenda:
- Introduction of current IPY5 planning status and potential breakout groups — 20 min.
- Breakouts should propose recommendations and resources for consideration by the TG and/or PG in different topical areas
- Setting Up Breakouts
- People vote with their feet for what breakouts they want to attend. Based on that, we decide the breakouts (4-5 or whatever the crowd/venue accommodates) — 5 min.
- Breakouts — 125 min. (Including break)
- Define topic/issue/challenge— reasonably specific common understanding but don’t spend too much time wordsmithing — ~15 min.
- Identify relevant resources that should be used (existing strategies, policies, tools, what have you) and connections to existing initiatives that should be leveraged in order to address the challenge identified. Be specific. Include full names, URLs, points of contact… — 40 min
- Develop proposed recommendations. These could be recommendations for the PG as part of the final TG report or they could be recommendations for the TG on what they need to do to guide the PG and IPY projects. — 45 min.
- Prepare a report to the full group — 10 min.
- Reports from (breakouts) ~25 min.
- Closing and next steps — ~5 min.
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A still useful paper on the experience from the leaders of the IPY data effort:
Parsons, M. A., Ø. Godøy, E. LeDrew, T. F. de Bruin, B. Danis, S. Tomlinson, and D. Carlson. 2011. “A conceptual framework for managing very diverse data for complex interdisciplinary science.” Journal of Information Science. 37(6). http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165551511412705.
The report from the workshop report that kicked it all off:
Parsons, M. A. et al. 2006. International Polar Year Data Management Workshop, 3-4 March 2006, Cambridge, UK. Glaciological Data Series, no. GD-33. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. https://nsidc.org/sites/nsidc.org/files/files/Glaciological_Data_33.pdf
What was essentially the final report of the IPY Data Committee:
Parsons, M. A., T. de Bruin, S. Tomlinson, H. Campbell, Ø. Godøy, J. LeClert, and IPY Data Policy and Management SubCommittee. 2011. “The state of polar data—the IPY experience”. In I. Krupnik, I. Allison, R. Bell, P. Cutler, D. Hik, J. López-Martínez, V. Rachold, E. Sarukhanian and C. Summerhayes (Ed.s) Understanding Earth’s Polar Challenges: International Polar Year 2007-2008. CCI Press. issn: 0068-0303, isbn:1-896445-55-1. pp. 457-476. https://council.science/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ipy-jc-summary-part3.pdf
I also just posted an archive version of the IPY Data and Information Service website on Zenodo.