CPDW3 was held February 18–21, 2020 in Banff, Alberta, at the Banff Centre for the Arts. It was hosted through partnership between the Canadian Consortium for Arctic Data Interoperability (CCADI), Canadian Cryospheric Information Network/Polar Data Catalogue (CCIN/PDC), Polar Knowledge Canada, and numerous other organizations.
The workshop was structured to reach specific outcomes through working group sessions and consensus building on themes such as the need for a national data management strategy for Canada, data discovery and federated search, all aspects of data interoperability, and other themes related to polar data broadly defined including knowledge transfer and Indigenous data policies. Attendees were also invited to participate in a hackathon to advance technical aspects of polar data management in Canada.
