Repository details

UK Polar Data Centre

Name of repository
UK Polar Data Centre
Additional name(s)
  • UK PDC
Repository URL
https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/uk-pdc/
Subject(s)
Description
The UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) is the focal point for Arctic and Antarctic environmental data management in the UK. Part of the Natural Environmental Research Council’s (NERC) network of environmental data centres and based at the British Antarctic Survey, it coordinates the management of polar data from UK-funded research and supports researchers in complying with national and international data legislation and policy.
Contact(s)
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://www.bas.ac.uk/about/
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • serviceProvider

Institutions (2)

Institution
British Antarctic Survey
Additional name(s)
  • BAS
Institution
Country
United Kingdom
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2009
Institution
Natural Environment Research Council
Additional name(s)
  • NERC
Institution
Country
United Kingdom
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (2)

Policy Name
Data Policy
Policy Name
NERC data policy

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
Copyrights
DataLicense
CC

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
Data deposit
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • DOI
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Data citation guideline
https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/uk-pdc/data-citation-and-publishing/
Author identifier system(s)
  • ORCID
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (1)

Type
REST
Url
https://api.bas.ac.uk/data/metadata/csw/v2/published?

Metadata standards (2)

Metadata standard
DataCite Metadata Schema
Metadata standard
ISO 19115

Alerting services (1)

Type of alerting service
RSS

Remarks

Remarks
PDC is covered by Clarivate Data Citation Index. is covered by Elsevier. PDC replaces the Antarctic Environmental Data Centre (AEDC) from 1st April 2009. The PDC is based within the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and is part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) network of data centres. It is the UK’s National Antarctic Data Centre in the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM). PDC was CTS certified until 2024-03-18.
Entry date
2012-12-05
Last update
2025-03-24
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re3data.org: UK Polar Data Centre; editing status 2025-03-24; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3C01K last accessed: 2025-05-18