Better Tools for Metadata Management

1. Be#er
Tools
for
Metadata
Management
Tanu
Malik,
Ian
Foster,
Kyle
Chard,
Joseph
Baker,
Mike
Gurnis,
Jonathan
Goodall,
Sco=
Peckham
GeoDataspace
Tuesday, October 27, 15

2. Geoscientists expressed
“Need for tools”
...that allow substantial metadata for both expert and non-expert uses
Hydrology/Dark Data: Envisioning a Digital Crust, 2013
...seamlessly integrate data and modeling infrastructure to provide effective ‘workspaces’
EarthCube ModelingWorkshop for the Geosciences, 2013
...are easy-to-install and are cross-platform with packages
Critical Zone EarthCube DomainWorkshop Report, 2012
...are web-based, require no installation of software and are platform independent
Graduate StudentVision for EarthCube Report, 2013
...allow discovery, access, and reuse of Structural Geology data and models in a ‘dataspace’
Structural Geology andTectonicsWorkshop Report, 2012
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3. Capability-rich tools
Provide mechanisms for
• Self-curation
• Tracking cause and effect between data and models
• Ensuring reproducibility
• Support services: discovery, sharing, publication
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4. • Simplify model and data management for computational/
data geoscientists
• Faster and reproducible hand-shakes among faculty
and students
• Cuts down IT support for modeling centers and real
science
Benefits
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5. CollaborationsIndividual Community
Create, Publish
Geounits
Share, Reproduce
Geounits
Curate, Preserve
Geounits
Software
-as-a-
Service
Integrated
Metadata
Management
GeoDataspace
GeoDataspace
PROVaaS
Provenance
Management
Dependency
Management
Annotation
Management
Version
Management
Globus
Sharing
Docker
Hub
GitHub
Globus
Data
Publication
GeoDataspace for metadata management
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6. The GeoDataspace demo
is BYOP
Bring-Your-Own-Pipeline/Publication/Project
Solid Earth Hydrology CSDMSSpace Science
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7. GeoDataspace Survey
http://bit.do/489F
Tuesday, October 27, 15