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• Adequate Resources Making progress will require adequate financial,
technical, and human resources. More focus is needed on the training of early career scientists and youth to ensure that they have the necessary
data literacy to engage in intensive research while contributing to and benefiting from an open, interoperable system.
4.2 Recommendations for Collaboration
At this stage, two items shall be further discussed to help attracting indigenous people as stakeholders and to have starting points for further collaboration on
the organizational level. This list serves as a starting point and does not make any claims of being complete.
• It is recommended that this pilot reaches out to and collaborate with the International Hydrographic Organization’s Marine Spatial Data Infras-
tructure IHO MSDIWG and the Arctic Regional Hydrographic Com- mission ARHC Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Working Group MS-
DIWG.
• Interaction with indigenous people cannot be over-emphasized. A key lesson learned is that Indigenous people and their representative orga-
nizations must be an integral part of the design and development pro- cess if the SDI is to serve the needs of Indigenous peoples and broader
society and benefit from Indigenous knowledge and observations. This process can start by working closely with Indigenous representative or-
ganizations such as the Permanent Participants of the Arctic Council and national organizations such as Inuit QuajisarvingatThe Inuit Knowledge
Centre at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami in Canada. They can, in turn, facili- tate connection to regional and community level organizations and indi-
viduals. Further important stakeholders in this context are the Govern- ment of Nunavut, Nunavut Geoscience, Nunavut Planning Commission,
Nunavut Impact Review Board, Nunavut water board, Municipal and lo- cal governments, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated and Regional Inuit
Associations, Department of Indian and Northern affair, and the Depart- ment of Natural Resources Canada. Stakeholders should further include
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stitute, federal departments with continued interestgovernance in the Arctic, Hunters and Trappers Committees, and Territorial governments
and Infrastructure managers.
Chapter 5
Architecture
The architecture of an SDI is a multi-dimensional concept, including software, hardware, deployments, networks, operations, federations and many others.
Figure 5.1
identifies a large number of aspects that play a role in architecture design and definition.
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5.1: Architectural aspects that need consideration
The main goal of this Arctic Spatial Data Pilot is to demonstrate the value of an SDI for the Arctic to a broad range of stakeholders. As discussed in chapter
2.3.3 , one of the best approaches to demonstrate value and increase stakehold-
ers’ adoption rates is an excellent implementation of an Arctic SDI serving all stakeholders needs. For this reason, this chapter discusses architecture perspec-
tives and concentrates on a number of key aspects to support the future devel- opment and extension of any Arctic SDI without necessarily being a blueprint
ready for implementation.
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5.1 Data Infrastructure Evolution
