Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with the GeoChronos Portal

Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with the GeoChronos Portal Cameron Kiddle Research Fellow, Grid Research Centre, University of Calgary

An on-line platform
For:
Earth Observation Scientists
Facilitating:
Collaboration between scientists
Application access, management and sharing
Data access, management and sharing
Leveraging:
Web 2.0 and social networking technologies
Cloud computing technologies
Semantic Web technologies
Funded by:
CANARIE - Network Enabled Platform (NEP-1) program
Cybera
5/5/2010 Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with the GeoChronos Portal ( http://geochronos.org/ )

Motivation
Social Networking
Can enhance collaboration capabilities around data and applications – “ Facebook for Scientists ”
Facebook Widely adopted
> 400 million users (50% log on to Facebook on any given day)
> 25 billion pieces of content shared each month
> 550 thousand applications on Facebook Platform
5/5/2010 Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with the GeoChronos Portal

Collaboration
Social networking portal
Initial prototypes built on Facebook and Ning
Current portal built on Elgg
Social networking services
Blogs
Tags
Media/document sharing
Wikis
Friends/contacts
Groups
Discussions
Message boards
Calendars
Status
Activity Feeds
5/5/2010 http://geochronos.org/ Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with the GeoChronos Portal

Applications
Interactive Application Service (IAS)
On-line, on-demand access to scientific applications
Share application sessions and data with other users
Access control to applications
Hosted on top of a cloud computing platform (ASPEN) that can dynamically provision resources on-demand

Data
Spectral Libraries
Store, share and browse spectral data
Manage metadata for spectra
Create and share metadata schemas
View spectral plots, metadata, ancillary files and maps

Work in Progress
Collaboration
Additional Elgg plugins to further enable collaboration
Publications, presentations ...
Applications
Batch processing and automated workflow services
Handle longer running data processing tasks and simulations
Automate data workflows (i.e., mosaic, reproject and subset MODIS data)
Data
Generalization of spectral library solution
Acquire, store, manage, browse and share other types of data
Employment of Semantic Web technologies
better link / relate data and enable ontological mapping between metadata standards

Portal Usage
Over 75 users from Europe, South America and North America
Used at IAI International Wireless Sensor Networking Summer School in Edmonton in July 2009 (~40 participants)
Used by Tropi-Dry community for collaboration and sharing documents
Slowly opening up portal to different communities of users as development progresses; public release planned for later this year

Project Team 5/5/2010 Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with the GeoChronos Portal Prinicipal Investigators Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa University of Alberta Dr. John Gamon University of Alberta Dr. Benoit Rivard University of Alberta Dr. Rob Simmonds University of Calgary Project Coordination Platform Development Domain Scientists

Virtual Organization 5/5/2010 Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with the GeoChronos Portal

Contact Information 5/5/2010 Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with the GeoChronos Portal Cameron Kiddle [email_address] http://pages.cspc.ucalgary.ca/~kiddlec/ http://geochronos.org/ [email_address] http://grid.ucalgary.ca/ http://ceos.ualberta.ca/ http://www.cybera.ca/

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Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with the GeoChronos Portal

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