ESIP Commons Ignite presentation as part of the Creative Commons 10-year anniversary celebration. Talked about how ESIP is utilizing cc to share work produced by the community.

1. ESIP Commons: Publish, Cite and Find Non-
Traditional Content
Erin Robinson
Information and Virtual Community Director
erinrobinson@esipfed.org

2. The ESIP Federation is
A broad-based, distributed
community of Earth
science data and
information technology
practitioners

3. The ESIP Federation is
A broad-based, distributed
community of Earth science
data and information
technology practitioners

4. Why care about Earth science information?

6. ESIP Transforms Earth Science
ESIP provides community coordination to support
interoperability at the data, systems, humans and organizations
level.

8. Community-generated
Best Practices
Testbed Projects
Meeting Artifacts
Educational Modules
•http://www.flickr.com/pho
tos/jayeb333/

9. Is this mine?
Can I use it?
What is it related to?
Is it finished?
•http://www.flickr.com/pho
tos/jayeb333/

10. User Hurdles
“The user cannot find the [information];
If he can find them, he cannot access them;
If he can access them, he doesn't know how good they are;
if he finds them good, he can not merge them with other [information]”
The Users View of IT, NAS 1989

11. “the commons” — the body of work freely
available to the public for legal use, sharing,
repurposing, and remixing.
http://creativecommons.org/culture

12. http://commons.esipfed.org

13. http://commons.esipfed.org

17. Reused:

18. ESIP Commons for Networking
Right Level of Networking?

19. Network Effect: ESIPxn

20. Thanks!
erinrobinson@esipfed.org
@ESIPFed
On the Web -
esipfed.org
commons.esipfed.org
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