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The Italian Antarctic Data Center at INGV
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  • Emanuele Pica,
  • Paolo Bagiacchi,
  • Vincenzo Romano,
  • Domenico Di Mauro,
  • Claudio Cesaroni,
  • Carlo Marcocci,
  • Simona Longo,
  • Alberto Salvati
Emanuele Pica
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

Corresponding Author:emanuele.pica@ingv.it

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Paolo Bagiacchi
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
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Vincenzo Romano
SpacEarth Technology; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
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Domenico Di Mauro
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
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Claudio Cesaroni
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
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Carlo Marcocci
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
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Simona Longo
National Research Council of Italy
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Alberto Salvati
National Research Council of Italy
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Abstract

The National Antarctic Data Center (NADC) is the ICT infrastructure designed to gather, handle, publish and provide access to the large amount of scientific data collected by several projects in the framework of the Italian Antarctic National Research Program (PRNA). Aim of the infrastructure is to provide a single integrated system that allows the final users to easily access and share data wherever they are stored. The architecture is based on a System-of-Systems (SoS) concept: a set of systems (functional nodes) interconnected together with each other by means of mediation and adaptation services running on a central infrastructure (common node). The common node is managed by the five Organizations (CNR, INGV, ENEA, OGS, MNA) that contribute to the NADC and is devoted to a regular harvesting of the metadata. Each functional node consists of an existing metadata and data management system implemented by each Organization. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) hosts one of those functional nodes and it is managing, among others, data/metadata produced by the permanent geomagnetic and ionospheric observatories installed in Antarctica since 1985. The functional nodes are interconnected and federated together by means of interfaces and standard data/metadata models. This distributed architecture allows to interconnect heterogeneous systems and digital infrastructures in a flexible, scalable and sustainable way. This paper describes the general infrastructure and, as an example of functional node, the contribution of the data management related to the Antarctic Ionospheric and Geomagnetic Observatories managed by INGV at Mario Zucchelli station (74°41′42″S, 164°06′50.4″E) and Concordia base (75°05′59.91″S, 123°19′57.38″E).