Data Submission Tools and Resources to Support Best Metadata Practices, Data Sharing, and Citation in the Arctic Research Community

Serving as the primary data and software repository for the Arctic section of NSF Polar Programs, the NSF Arctic Data Center's mission is to help the Arctic research community reproducibly preserve and discover all data, metadata, and software products of NSF-funded science in the Arctic. In fulfilling this mission, the Arctic Data Center has developed tools and resources to support and engage researchers in their data submission. The Arctic Data Center recently launched a new version of their metadata editor that has an easier-to-use design and allows more granular metadata descriptions, such as data entity descriptions, and data attribute descriptions. The development team also created a provenance web tool to track and attribute the origin of derived data. To ensure proper data citation, submitters are required to use an ORCiD and datasets are given unique digital object identifiers (DOIs). We will discuss these tools and resources the Arctic Data Center is employing to support and encourage researchers to share their data to increase awareness, usage, and facilitate further collaboration for addressing pressing Arctic research questions.