From an invitation received recently from CCADI-CFI Project Manager Ravi Darwin Shankar:
Hello everyone,
On behalf of the Planning Committee for the Third Canadian Polar Data Workshop (CPDW3), we invite you to participate in the upcoming workshop which is a follow-up to previous Canada wide consultations held in 2015 and 2017. CPDW3 will be held February 18-21, 2020 at the Banff Centre for the Arts, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, Alberta, Canada. The workshop will be hosted through partnership between the Canadian Consortium for Arctic Data Interoperability, Canadian Cryospheric Information Network/Polar Data Catalogue (CCIN/PDC), Polar Knowledge Canada, and numerous other organizations.
The Third Canadian Polar Data Workshop will be structured to reach specific outcomes through working group sessions and consensus building on themes such as the need for a national data management strategy for Canada, data discovery and federated search, all aspects of data interoperability, and other themes related to polar data broadly defined including knowledge transfer and Indigenous data policies. The workshop will also include a hackathon to advance technical aspects of polar data management in Canada. Your input and contributions in the form of poster presentations are also welcome to highlight important issues related to polar data management.
The preliminary workshop agenda can be viewed here<https://ccadi.ca/sites/default/files/CPDW3_DraftAgenda_Dec17.pdf>.
Registration: If you are interested in attending the workshop, please follow the adjacent link to register: https://arctic.ucalgary.ca/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=28
Venue and Accommodations: We have reserved a block of rooms at the Banff Centre for the Arts for attendees of the CPDW3 at a discounted rate. Persons wanting to benefit from this rate should book their accommodation using the link below before December 31st, 2019. https://book.b4checkin.com/chameleon/banffcentre/rlp/UOC2002
If you have any questions about the workshop, please send an email to ravi.sankar@ucalgary.ca or shannonv@ucalgary.ca<mailto:shannonv@ucalgary.ca> and we will ensure that your question is answered. Additional information on CPDW3 can be found online at ccadi.ca<https://ccadi.ca/third-canadian-polar-data-workshop> or https://thirdcanadianpolardataworkshop.wordpress.com
We look forward to seeing you in Banff!
Best Regards,
Ravi
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Ravi Darwin Sankar, Ph.D.
CCADI-CFI Project Manager
Fulbright Alumni
Arctic Institute of North America
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
Phone: 403-220-7928
E-mail: ravi.sankar@ucalgary.ca