Introduction – Steps for you towards securing data availability

You are a public administration entity, University, private organization or NGO:

• collecting data for reports when researching and monitoring phenomenon’s in the Arctic
• providing scientific based information to organizations serving decisions makers in the Arctic –
  Arctic Council / National Governments

You want

•  the data on which your organization base your work and policy recommendations to be distributed, easy accessible and low cost reuseable
• to avoid that your data is only accessible in printed reports or pdf-files and over time lost

Best Practice

• Make sure your data fulfill international agreed best practices for data sharing
• Take responsibility for the accessibility to your data
• Make sure that you have a data distribution system for your data
• Make sure your data complies to international standards

Follow the guidelines!