Founded in 2024, the Canadian Polar Data Consortium (CPDC) is a national not-for-profit organization that brings together a distributed network of Canadian polar data centres, professionals and researchers with the common goal of providing ethically open, accessible, and comprehensive digital resources to the broadest possible audience of data users.
The CPDC developed out of the Canadian Consortium for Arctic Data Interoperability (CCADI), a collaboration among Canadian Arctic data centres that began in 2015. The CPDC builds upon the work of the CCADI, establishing new partnerships and initiatives within Canada and abroad.
