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

2. Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Type III (Application ESIP Partners by Type
Developers)
Is community-driven, highly
participatory and open to Type I (Data Centers)
science data and technology
practitioners from across the
data value chain.
Some partners are networks themselves
Unidata, DataOne, NEON, US-GIN, Type IV (Sponsors)
Data Conservancy, IRIS
Type II (Researchers)
National Phenology Network,
USGS Community for Data Integration*
AGU Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI)
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
NASA, NOAA, EPA

3. Commons.esipfed.org
Objectives:
• Provide a knowledge repository for information and knowledge generated as part of
ESIP activities
• Provide a citation mechanism to acknowledge individuals and groups that generate
new knowledge
• Allow discovery and tracking of contributions to ESIP by person and organization

4. ESIP Commons as a Knowledge Repository
ESIP Committee, Working
• ESIP Commons supports: Group and Cluster Activities
• Microarticles (white papers)
• Meeting Session
• Abstracts and notes
• Posters
• Future Content Types
• Lesson Plans
• Discovery Change Proposals
• Interoperapedia
• Prof. Dev. Modules
• Use Cases
• State of practice reports
Committees
Working Groups
Clusters

5. Microarticle

6. Microarticle

7. Citation format and standard needs community input

9. Meeting Sessions

10. • Using the Views to display meeting sessions in the
Commons as a schedule

11. Meeting Session Submission

12. Posters

13. Posters

14. Posters

15. Posters

16. Proceedings

17. Proceedings

18. Proceedings

19. People and Organizations

20. People and Organizations

21. People and Organizations

22. Network Effect: ESIPxn

23. Acknowledgements
• Sony Sharma, AjinkyaKulkarni and RahulRamachandran,
University of Alabama, Huntsville
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24. Questions?
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25. ESIP Online
• Home page
• http://esipfed.org
• ESIP Commons
• http://commons.esipfed.org
• Wiki (primary collaborative space)
• http://wiki.esipfed.org