http://armap.utep.edu/Metadata_WAF/

This web accessible folder (WAF) is available to enhance the discovery of data sets and Internet Map Server applications through publication of metadata stored in the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) standard with key words provided by the International Standards Organization (ISO), Wikipedia, NASA’s Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) and others. This is an effort to implement best practices for geospatial data and applications as promoted by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI), Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI) and others. A WAF is a directory on the World Wide Web which allows a web browser to browse the content of the directory. Metadata records in this directory are formatted as HMTL and XML documents. The XML files are harvested once a month by the GeoData.gov clearinghouse. HTML files are available for discovery through search engines such as Google. This folder contains metadata records for the following: Arctic Research Field Sites, Arctic Research Field Place Names, the Arctic Research Mapping Application (ARMAP available at: http://armap.org), the Circumarctic Environmental Observatories – Internet Map Server (CEON-IMS application available at: http://www.ceonims.org) and the Barrow Area Information Database – Internet Map Server (BAID-IMS application available at: http://www.baidims.org). These data sets and applications support science logistics and planning for the Arctic region which includes Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Russia, Svalbard, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway . These data sets and applications provide to access to research activities in disciplines examining the cyrosphere, permafrost, tundra, glaciology, oceanography, sea ice, arctic hydrology, arctic landscape ecology, rangifers, polar bears, migratory birds, atmospheric science, biogeochemistry, carbon cycle, pollutants, cold regions engineering, research logistics, cyberinfrastructure, population cycles, social science, traditional knowledge, anthropology, archeology, migration, ecosystem structure and function, remote sensing, land cover change, climate change and global change. They are maintained by the University of Texas at El Paso Systems Ecology Laboratory (http://sel.utep.edu), and they have been developed in conjunction with Nuna Technologies (http://www.nunatech.com), CH2MHill Polar Field Services (http://www.polar.ch2m.com/), the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (http://instaar.colorado.edu/), the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (http://www.arcticscience.org/), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ Abisko Scientifc Research Station and the Scandinavian-North European Network of Terrestrial Field Bases (SCANNET available at http://www.scannet.nu/). These efforts are funded by the United States National Science Foundation’s (http://www.nsf.gov) Office of Polar Programs (OPP).