Following an upgrade of the front- and backend services of the catalogue, the catalogue search engine was restructured yesterday and reindexing of datasets initiated. During the evening of November 21 a hardware outage prevented completion of the reindexing process. Due to this, the catalogue is yet not properly populated. This work will continue once hardware issues have been fixed.

Tuesday 21th November, maintenance is planned in the computer halls hosting the services. This will start 12:30 CET and may last for 2.5 hours. During this period services may not be available.

The Research Council of Norway has opened the hearing on the research strategy for Ny-Ålesund, which will set the framework for research activity at the Ny-Ålesund Research Station. All interested in Ny-Ålesund research are welcome to give input to this public consultation.

Deadline for submitting comments is 11 December 2018.