The document provides an overview of EarthCube, which aims to transform geoscience research through community-driven cyberinfrastructure. It discusses EarthCube's purpose of facilitating unprecedented data sharing to better understand interactions within the Earth system. The presentation outlines EarthCube's history and current efforts, which include funded building blocks, research coordination networks, and conceptual design awards. It also summarizes key challenges identified by end-users, such as the need for improved data discovery, interoperability, and long-term sustainability of geoscience data and tools.
Lee Allison, PI of the EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance Project, leads the EarthCube Townhall at ESIP Summer Meeting 2014.
This presentation covers a brief introduction to EarthCube, the EarthCube journey to the All-Hands Meeting, outcomes of the All-Hands Meeting, and ways to participate in the demonstration governance.
Email all questions to anna.katz@azgs.az.gov.
EarthCube's OceanLink - Project Overview and Presentation Updates (March 2014)EarthCube
EAGER: Collaborative Research: EarthCube Building Blocks, Leveraging Semantics and Linked Data for Geoscience Data Sharing and Discovery or "OceanLink" is one of 15 EarthCube-funded components.
This presentation includes an OceanLink Project Overview (slides 1-12), followed by several presentations highlighting separate project efforts and updates to different audiences:
Slide 13: "Ontologies in a data-driven world." Montana State University Computer Science Department, March 3, 2014.
Slide 44: "Towards ontology patterns for ocean science repository integration", Ontology Summit 2014, Ontolog online session January 2014.
Slide 82: OceanLink: Using Patterns for Discovery in EarthCube, GeoVoCampSB2014, Santa Barbara, March, 2014
Slide 118: "Ontologies in a data driven world," IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, January 2014.
Welcome & Workshop Objectives: Introduction to COMPRES by Jay Bass, Universit...EarthCube
Talk at the EarthCube End-User Domain Workshop for Rock Deformation and Mineral Physics Research.
By Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In this video from the HPC User Forum at Argonne, Dr. Brett Bode from NCSA presents: Research on Blue Waters.
"Blue Waters is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and is one of the fastest supercomputers on a university campus. Scientists and engineers across the country use the computing and data power of Blue Waters to tackle a wide range of challenging problems, from predicting the behavior of complex biological systems to simulating the evolution of the cosmos."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kYx
Learn more: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/bluewaters
and
http://hpcuserforum.com
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
AHM 2014: Session 1 "Governance and Chartering EarthCube"EarthCube
Lee Allison, PI of the EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance Project, provides an introduction to the Draft Governance Charter, which was developed by the EarthCube community, and further refined with more community feedback. The presentation covers all aspects of the Draft Charter and how we will be 'tackling the tough issues' throughout the meeting and coming year to continue to develop EarthCube governance.
AHM 2014: OceanLink, Smart Data versus Smart Applications EarthCube
Presentation given by Krysztof Janowicz and Pascal Hitzler in the afternoon Architecture Forum Session on Day 1, June 24, at the EarthCube All-Hands Meeting.
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Email all questions to anna.katz@azgs.az.gov.
EarthCube's OceanLink - Project Overview and Presentation Updates (March 2014)EarthCube
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Slide 13: "Ontologies in a data-driven world." Montana State University Computer Science Department, March 3, 2014.
Slide 44: "Towards ontology patterns for ocean science repository integration", Ontology Summit 2014, Ontolog online session January 2014.
Slide 82: OceanLink: Using Patterns for Discovery in EarthCube, GeoVoCampSB2014, Santa Barbara, March, 2014
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Welcome & Workshop Objectives: Introduction to COMPRES by Jay Bass, Universit...EarthCube
Talk at the EarthCube End-User Domain Workshop for Rock Deformation and Mineral Physics Research.
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Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kYx
Learn more: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/bluewaters
and
http://hpcuserforum.com
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
AHM 2014: Session 1 "Governance and Chartering EarthCube"EarthCube
Lee Allison, PI of the EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance Project, provides an introduction to the Draft Governance Charter, which was developed by the EarthCube community, and further refined with more community feedback. The presentation covers all aspects of the Draft Charter and how we will be 'tackling the tough issues' throughout the meeting and coming year to continue to develop EarthCube governance.
AHM 2014: OceanLink, Smart Data versus Smart Applications EarthCube
Presentation given by Krysztof Janowicz and Pascal Hitzler in the afternoon Architecture Forum Session on Day 1, June 24, at the EarthCube All-Hands Meeting.
EarthCube All Hands Meeting Outcomes: Architecture Forum EarthCube
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This presentation, given at the EarthCube Townhall at ESIP Summer Meeting (July 8-11) outlines the outcomes of the Architecture discussions and how the technology projects and teams are using these outcomes to move forward with EarthCube.
EarthCube Community Webinar 12.19.13: NSF EarthCube Funding Solicitation 13-529EarthCube
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EarthCube Monthly Community Webinar- Nov. 22, 2013EarthCube
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Agenda:
EarthCube Awards – Project Overviews
1.. EarthCube Web Services (Building Block)
2. EC3: Earth-Centered Community for Cyberinfrastructure (RCN)
3. GeoSoft (Building Block)
4. Specifying and Implementing ODSIP (Building Block)
5. A Broker Framework for Next Generation Geoscience (BCube) (Building Block)
6. Integrating Discrete and Continuous Data (Building Block)
7. EAGER: Collaborative Research (Building Block)
8. A Cognitive Computer Infrastructure for Geoscience (Building Block)
9. Earth System Bridge (Building Block)
10. CINERGI – Community Inventory of EC Resources for Geoscience Interoperability (BB)
11. Building a Sediment Experimentalist Network (RCN)
12. C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences (RCN)
13. Developing a Data-Oriented Human-centric Enterprise for Architecture (CD)
14. Enterprise Architecture for Transformative Research and Collaboration (CD)
15. EC Test Enterprise Governance: An Agile Approach (Test Governance)
A Call for Involvement!
An Agile Approach to Development of Cyberinfrastructure GovernanceEarthCube
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EarthCube Community Webinar held Tuesday, Dec. 9th at 11:00 PST/2:00 EST for a virtual kick-off of the new 'Demonstration Phase' of EarthCube, including statements from your Leadership Council members and an update from NSF Program Officer, Eva Zanzerkia.
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This webinar discusses recent advances in the Test Governance Project and provides information about concrete ways that the community can help inform EarthCube governance through several activities over the coming month.
Sediment Experimentalist Network (SEN): Sharing and reusing methods and data ...hsuleslie
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This series of presentations was given at the EarthCube Data Facilities End-User Workshop held January 15-17, 2014 in Washington, DC. This workshop provided a forum to discuss the unique requirements and challenges associated with developing the communication, collaboration, interoperability, and governance structures that will be required to build EarthCube in conjunction with existing and emerging NSF/GEO facilities.
This panel and discussion, specifically, outlined and explained several current concepts in data sharing and interoperability, featuring presentations by:
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Don Middleton (UCAR): Atmospheric/Climate
Kerstin Lehnert (LDEO): Domain Repositories & Physical Samples
David Schindel (CBOL, GRBio): Biological Perspective & Collections
Hank Leoscher (NEON): Observation Networks
Daniel Fuka (Virginia Tech) and Ruth Duerr (NSIDC): Brokering
Ilya Zaslavsky (UCSD): Cross-Domain Interoperability
EarthCube All Hands Meeting Outcomes: Architecture Forum EarthCube
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This presentation, given at the EarthCube Townhall at ESIP Summer Meeting (July 8-11) outlines the outcomes of the Architecture discussions and how the technology projects and teams are using these outcomes to move forward with EarthCube.
EarthCube Community Webinar 12.19.13: NSF EarthCube Funding Solicitation 13-529EarthCube
Slides were presented by Eva Zanzerkia (NSF EarthCube Program Officer) and M. Lee Allison (EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance [ECTEG] Project PI, University of Arizona) during the EarthCube Community Webinar on December 19, 2013. Content includes an overview of the NSF EarthCube Funding Soliciation 13-529 (Amendment III), an announcement of the ECTEG Advisory Committee, and a list of upcoming virtual and in-person avenues to participate in the co-creation of EarthCube.
EarthCube Monthly Community Webinar- Nov. 22, 2013EarthCube
This webinar features project overviews of all EarthCube Awards (Building Blocks, Research Coordination Networks, Conceptual Designs, and Test Governance), followed by a call for involvement, and a Q&A session.
Agenda:
EarthCube Awards – Project Overviews
1.. EarthCube Web Services (Building Block)
2. EC3: Earth-Centered Community for Cyberinfrastructure (RCN)
3. GeoSoft (Building Block)
4. Specifying and Implementing ODSIP (Building Block)
5. A Broker Framework for Next Generation Geoscience (BCube) (Building Block)
6. Integrating Discrete and Continuous Data (Building Block)
7. EAGER: Collaborative Research (Building Block)
8. A Cognitive Computer Infrastructure for Geoscience (Building Block)
9. Earth System Bridge (Building Block)
10. CINERGI – Community Inventory of EC Resources for Geoscience Interoperability (BB)
11. Building a Sediment Experimentalist Network (RCN)
12. C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences (RCN)
13. Developing a Data-Oriented Human-centric Enterprise for Architecture (CD)
14. Enterprise Architecture for Transformative Research and Collaboration (CD)
15. EC Test Enterprise Governance: An Agile Approach (Test Governance)
A Call for Involvement!
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EarthCube Community Webinar held Tuesday, Dec. 9th at 11:00 PST/2:00 EST for a virtual kick-off of the new 'Demonstration Phase' of EarthCube, including statements from your Leadership Council members and an update from NSF Program Officer, Eva Zanzerkia.
05.06.2014 Community Webinar: Governance Update and Call for InputEarthCube
EarthCube Community Webinar, held on May 6, 2014 at 9:00am PDT.
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Sediment Experimentalist Network (SEN): Sharing and reusing methods and data ...hsuleslie
Presentation given to the Summer Institute for Earth Surface Dynamics (SIESD) 2014 at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, about the Sediment Experimentalist Network (SEN). SEN is an EarthCube Research Coordination Network, whose goal is to integrate the efforts of sediment experimentalists and build a knowledge base for guidance on best practices for data collection and management.
Data Facilities Workshop - Panel on Current Concepts in Data Sharing & Intero...EarthCube
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Don Middleton (UCAR): Atmospheric/Climate
Kerstin Lehnert (LDEO): Domain Repositories & Physical Samples
David Schindel (CBOL, GRBio): Biological Perspective & Collections
Hank Leoscher (NEON): Observation Networks
Daniel Fuka (Virginia Tech) and Ruth Duerr (NSIDC): Brokering
Ilya Zaslavsky (UCSD): Cross-Domain Interoperability
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2. AGENDA
1. Introduction to EarthCube: Overview & Purpose
2. EarthCube Journey (a brief history)
3. Current Efforts
4. Questions & Discussion
3. EARTHCUBE PURPOSE & CALL TO ACTION
Holistic approach to understand more
deeply the planet and its interactions
Community-driven cyberinfrastructure for
unprecedented data sharing
CALL TO ACTION: ―Over the next decade, the
geosciences community commits to developing a
framework to understand and predict responses of
the Earth as a system—from the space-atmosphere
boundary to the core, including the influences of
humans and ecosystems.‖
NSF GEO Vision report, 2009
4. EARTHCUBE VISION
Transform the conduct of data-
enabled geoscience-related
research
Create effective community-
driven cyberinfrastructure
Allow global data discovery and
knowledge management
Achieve interoperability and
data integration across
disciplines
Dynamic
Earth
Changing
Climate
Earth & Life
Geosphere-
Biospheric
Connection
Water:
Changing
Perspectives
6. Roadmaps & Concept Designs (technical roadmaps
and small prototype designs)
End-user Workshops & Stakeholder Alignment
(identifying community needs & wants)
The EarthCube Journey
White Papers & Expressions of Interest (Geo & CI)
Dear Colleague Letter & Charrettes (2011-2012)
Full History at: http://earthcube.org/page/history-and-progress
201120122013Present
10. Roadmaps & Concept Designs (technical roadmaps
and small prototype designs)
End-user Workshops & Stakeholder Alignment
(identifying community needs & wants)
Building Blocks, RCNs, and Conceptual Design
Awards (current funded projects)
The EarthCube Journey
White Papers & Expressions of Interest (Geo & CI)
Dear Colleague Letter & Charrettes
Full List of Awards at: http://earthcube.org/page/earthcube-groups
201120122013Present
11. EARTHCUBE PORTFOLIO
Building Blocks Awards
Deploying Web Services Across Multiple
Geoscience Domains
Tim Ahern, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Specifying and Implementing ODSIP, A Data-
Service Invocation Protocol
David Fulker, OPeNDAP
A Broker Framework for Next Generation
Geoscience (BCube)
SiriJodha Khalsa, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Integrating Discrete and Continuous Data
David Maidment, University of Texas at Austin
OceanLink: Leveraging Semantics and
Crowdsourcing in Data Sharing and Discovery
Thomas Narock, University of Maryland
A Cognitive Computer Infrastructure for
Geoscience
Shanan E. Peters, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Earth System Bridge: Spanning Scientific
Communities with Interoperable Modeling
Frameworks
Scott Peckham, University of Colorado at Boulder
Software Stewardship for the Geosciences
Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California
Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources
for Geosciences Interoperability (CINERGI)
Ilya Zaslaysky, San Diego Super Computer Center
More information on EarthCube Building Blocks at: http://workspace.earthcube.org/building-blocks
12. EARTHCUBE PORTFOLIO
Conceptual Designs
Developing a Data-Oriented Human-
Centric Enterprise Architecture for
EarthCube
Phil Yang, George Mason University
Enterprise Architecture for
Transformative Research and
Collaboration Across the Geosciences
Ilya Zaslavsky, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Research Coordination Networks
C4P: Collaboration and
Cyberinfrastructure for
Paleogeosciences
Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University
Building a Sediment Experimentalist
Network
Wonsuck Kim, University of Texas at Austin
EC3: Earth-Centered Communication
for Cyberinfrastructure - Challenges of
Field Data
Collection, Management, and
Integration
Matty Mookerjee, Sonoma State University
More information on EarthCube RCN’s at: http://workspace.earthcube.org/rcns
More information on EarthCube Conceptual Designs at: http://workspace.earthcube.org/conceptual-designs
14. Roadmaps & Concept Designs (technical roadmaps
and small prototype designs)
End-user Workshops & Stakeholder Alignment
(identifying community needs & wants)
Test Governance Award (planning &
demonstration phases)
Building Blocks, RCNs, and Conceptual Design
Awards (current funded projects)
The EarthCube Journey
White Papers & Expressions of Interest (Geo & CI)
Dear Colleague Letter & Charrettes
201120122013Present
15. EARTHCUBE TEST ENTERPRISE
GOVERNANCE
An agile approach to
design a system that
catalyzes the field and
works for you
How do we bring your
tools, standards, and skills
into EarthCube?
16. Stakeholders
(Assembly) –
governance
ideas, testing
Integrate
stakeholder
concepts –
crowdsource
Synthesize and
recommend
governance
model to NSF
Establish Test
Governance
Facilitate
convergence on
system
design, data
standards
Evaluate results:
basis for long
term governance
Governance Timeline – Year 2
Governance Timeline – Year 1
17. Crowdsourcing
Exhibit Booths
Social Media
Website
Professional
Societies
Assembly Workshops
7 Stakeholder
Communities
4 Workshops
Synthesis Workshop
Synthesize info from
End-User & Assembly
Workshops
Develop Draft
EarthCube Test
Governance Charter
Secretariat
synthesis & analysis
Evaluators analysis
Chartered Groups &
Workshop
Participants
Advisory Committee
First Review
Crowdsourced
response
Advisory
Committee
Second Review
All-
Hands
meeting
Charter
Elements from
Stakeholder
Communities
Governance
Charter
V 1.0
Released
Governance
Charter
Presented to
All-Hands
Community
Governance
Charter
Submitted to
NSF
Jan-April 2014 May-June 2014 July-Sept 2014
18. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: CROWDSOURCING
Geological Society of America, (Oct.
2013)
American Geophysical Union (Dec. 2013)
Ocean Sciences Meeting (Feb. 2014)
American Meteorological Society (March
2014)
Research Data Access & Preservation
Summit (March 2014)
European Geosciences Union (April 2014)
20. Crowdsourcing
Exhibit Booths
Social Media
Website
Professional
Societies
Assembly Workshops
7 Stakeholder
Communities
4 Workshops
Synthesis Workshop
Synthesize info from
End-User & Assembly
Workshops
Develop Draft
EarthCube Test
Governance Charter
Secretariat
synthesis & analysis
Evaluators analysis
Chartered Groups &
Workshop
Participants
Advisory Committee
First Review
Crowdsourced
response
Advisory
Committee
Second Review
All-
Hands
meeting
Charter
Elements from
Stakeholder
Communities
Governance
Charter
V 1.0
Released
Governance
Charter
Presented to
All-Hands
Community
Governance
Charter
Submitted to
NSF
Jan-April 2014 May-June 2014 July-Sept 2014
22. ASSEMBLY SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP
April 16-18, 2014
Participants
Champions from the Assembly
Workshops
Purpose
Craft the Draft
EarthCube Demonstration Charter
23. Crowdsourcing
Exhibit Booths
Social Media
Website
Professional
Societies
Assembly Workshops
7 Stakeholder
Communities
4 Workshops
Synthesis Workshop
Synthesize info from
End-User & Assembly
Workshops
Develop Draft
EarthCube Test
Governance Charter
Secretariat
synthesis & analysis
Evaluators analysis
Chartered Groups &
Workshop
Participants
Advisory Committee
First Review
Crowdsourced
response
Advisory
Committee
Second Review
All-
Hands
meeting
Charter
Elements from
Stakeholder
Communities
Governance
Charter
V 1.0
Released
Governance
Charter
Presented to
All-Hands
Community
Governance
Charter
Submitted to
NSF
Jan-April 2014 May-June 2014 July-Sept 2014
24. EARTHCUBE ALL-HANDS MEETING
JUNE 24-26, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC For more information and to register, visit:
http://workspace.earthcube.org/all-hands-meeting
26. SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/NSFearthcube
Questions, comments, networking
Images
Twitter
https://twitter.com/EarthCube
#EarthCube
Meeting Tweets & Pics
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/EarthCubeNSF
Introductions to the EarthCube Awards
Webinar Videos
SlideShare
http://www.slideshare.net/earthcube
Workshop Slides
Community Webinar Slides
27. END-USER SCIENTIFIC GRAND CHALLENGES:
CENTRAL THEMES
Multi-disciplinary science to further understand our environment
E.g. physical, chemical, and biological processes in ocean ecosystems
Understand, adapt to, or propose changes in scientific approach
Better use of available data or new ways of collecting/distributing
data
Improved collaboration and coordination among disparate
funded projects/programs and disciplines; including improving
upon the use of existing facilities and observatories
Communication of science (& data) to society
Full list of Science Challenges at : http://workspace.earthcube.org/content/end-user-workshops-synthesis-science-grand-challenges
28. END-USER TECHNICAL CHALLENGES:
CENTRAL THEMES
Search and Access
Lack of awareness of existing tools and resources
Need for improved tools to enhance discoverability
Need for increased awareness of resources within and outside of specific
domains.
Need to incorporate legacy/dark data
Quality and formatting barriers to accessing found data
Storage
Tools
Software and algorithm development need to keep pace with research
advances.
Need for Increased visualization capabilities, simpler tools
Lack of tools to facilitate capturing metadata and documentation
Full list of Technical Challenges at: http://workspace.earthcube.org/content/end-user-workshops-synthesis-technological-grand-challenges
29. END-USER TECHNICAL CHALLENGES: CENTRAL
THEMES
Sustainability
Need support for long term archiving and retrieval
More data producers than managers
Need for Increased training in data use and stewardship
Need for easier ways to move and share large data sets
Interoperability
Inconsistent/ incomplete metadata
Formats and archiving standards vary across projects, and domains
Compliance mechanisms for providing metadata at point of acquisition
Increased uncertainty comes w/ new sources, uncertainty needs to be communicated
Cultural
Lack of incentives for sharing data. Academic culture still very publication focused, need for better ways of recognizing
academic merit of data.
Need for more communication between data producers and data managers and tool builders.
Need for different types of support for diverse users.
Editor's Notes
Read out agenda and go over:1) There is a lot of content to present in the 20 minutes I have, so there a couple slides that have some great information on them that I have included at the very end of this slide show so that you may view them later. These slides will be posted But I’ll make sure Walt has a copy of this presentation if you’d like to revisit some of the information. I’ve also added links for more information on the bottom of nearly every slide.
EarthCube is NSF effort for the development of community-led cyberinfrastructure that will allow for unprecedented data access, understanding, analysis and sharingacross the geosciences. Its aim is to develop a framework over the next decade to assist researchers in better understanding and predicting the Earth system from the sun to the center of the Earth. EarthCube was established as a response to the 2009 NSF GEO Vision Report, which highlights the need to integrate existing data systems to explore the Earth as a system to solve 21st century scientific problems. In this way, EarthCube is not about building something brand new, or reinventing the wheel, but about leveraging existing resources and efforts to fulfill its purpose.
Transform the conduct of data-enabled geoscience-related researchCreate effective community-driven cyberinfrastructureAllow global data discovery and knowledge managementAchieve interoperability and data integration across disciplines
Introduction to EarthCube Stakeholders the NSF’s main focus is on the academic geoscientists such as Atmospheric and Space Weather, Oceanographers, Geologists, Polar, Geophysicists, Hydrologists, and many more. However, there are other players and interests, which can both contribute to, collaborate with, and benefit from EarthCube. This includes the Cyber and Science Infrastructure experts, software engineers, and data facilities from both the NSF and other agencies such as NOAA and NASA. This group is needed to develop that CI cloud in the middle of the image. Societal interests an important stakeholder as well including educators, government agencies and officials, the commercial industry and more. You will see these same stakeholder groups later on in the presentation, as they were included throughout the process of developing EarthCube. Given this wide array of stakeholders, to fulfill this mission, EarthCube is facilitating the creation of a commons-like environment where stakeholders can bring together existing and new tools, models, databases, software, knowledge and collaboration spaces to facilitate the conduct of research to transform the way we do science. And furthermore, the way we share science with the non-science world.
Here’s a look at EarthCube’s brief history: I will be using iterations of this slide several times to reference back to where different project milestones fit within the larger EarthCube journey. [CLICK]The GEO Directorate and Office of Cyberinfrastructure of the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a Dear Colleague Letter in June 2011 announcing their partnership in starting EarthCube and their initial goals for EarthCubeEarthCube held its first charrette (community event) November 2011, with the goal to gather as many ideas as possible from a broad representation of potential EarthCube participants to jump-start the planning and development processes for EarthCube. [CLICK]In advance of this event, NSF solicited a series of White Papers for EarthCube. These were written by interested individuals and organizations across the domain and computer sciences. These white papers provided a forum for people to propose what EarthCube should look like in terms of science requirements, technology solutions, designs, and governance. NSF also solicited Expressions of Interest, which formed the foundation for the creation of the first ‘EarthCube groups’. NSF formed and funded several EarthCube Community Groups and Concept Award Teams by merging the authors of Expressions of Interest under common themes. The goal of the Community Groups was to gather EarthCube user requirements through broad engagement of the geosciences and IT communities, while the Concept Teams evaluated and prototyped innovative key technologies.[CLICK] Each of the Community Groups and Concept Teams was tasked with writing Roadmaps regarding how to move their area of EarthCube forward. These roadmaps were the culmination of months of research, community outreach, and deliberations in virtual and physical meetings, and they identify initial EarthCube stakeholders and cyberinfrastructure components. They were presented to NSF and the EarthCube community at the second EarthCube charrette or community meeting.*****So you can really see that, from the beginning, EarthCube has been a community-guided effort. Which is quite unique to the NSF and other agencies. community engagement is truly at the heart of the project. The NSF is dedicated to ensuring the development of EarthCube’s technical and social components are created and vetted by the community. [CLICK] Following this continued dedicated to community input, NSF funded a series of two dozen EarthCube domain end-user workshops throughout mid-2012 to late 2013, targeting a broad spectrum of Earth, atmosphere, ocean, and related scientists, including senior and early career scientists. The purpose of these workshops was to allow geoscience communities to articulate and document their cyberinfrastructure needs.Complementing the efforts end user workshops is an on-going EarthCube Stakeholder Alignment Survey. The success of EarthCube will depend on the ability of diverse stakeholders to orient and connect with one another in new ways that advance both individual and shared objectives. So now will dive a bit deeper into these End-User Workshops as they were an important milestone and their results continue to influence what we’re doing in EarthCube today.
A specific goal of these workshops was to gather requirements for EarthCube to be allow scientists to do the science they wanted to do. Each domain end-user workshop developed several science grand challenges or questions that are critical to better understanding our complex Earth system - challenges they envision can be better explored and understood with the help of the collaborative environment EarthCube is seeking to create. This is a wordle that was comprised of all Science Challenges developed in the two dozen workshops. So here you can see that challenges for the geosciences community surround understanding processes, climate change, scales, earth systems, etc. Articulating Cyberinfrastructure Needs of the Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics CommunityHow do different physical, chemical, and biological processes come together to create more complex emergent properties in ocean ecosystems? What are the feedback loops among these processes and how do they give rise to biological, chemical, and genetic diversity in the oceans?
As well as Science Challenges, each workshop developed a list of Technical Challenges. Participants asked to identify key technological challenges they face in data acquisition, comparison, integration, curation, etc. in pursuing key science questions, as well as the desired tools, databases, etc. required. From this wordle, it is clear that the big challenge is DATA (and that should be no surprise to you).
This is the same word cloud as the pervious one w/ “data” removedHighlights what is really important when it comes to technical challenges instead of just lumping it all into one big “problem with data” (which is what we always hear). When we dig deeper, we see that the real challenges are with the access, visualization, and tools related to data. Something else that really stands out is the word, Community. Emphasizing that perhaps not all technical challenges, have technical solutions, but social solutions as well. And that really where EarthCube can step in. Engaging the Atmospheric Cloud/Aerosol/Composition Community 6. Supporting modeling and integrated analysis • On-line data integration and analysis services • Tools and services to manage, archive, and disseminate model outputs for facilitating modeling comparison • Sensor-model coupling for facilitating model verification and validation with observation data • Sensor web and models as services
In September 2013, the NSF announced $14.5 million in funding for EarthCube Projects that were to carry out prototyping activities that would begin to address the technical, scientific, and social challenges identified as part of the series of End-User Workshops, Community Charrettes, White Papers, and Concept Designs. More specifically, the awards included work on initial software components development for EarthCube (‘Building Blocks'), projects to develop broad architecture design (‘Conceptual Designs’), and Research Coordination Networks (RCNs) to advance community-building.Two really important aspects of these Solicitations echo the larger values of EarthCube and they are: 1) Promoting and rewarding work that involves collaboration between cyberinfrastructure experts or computer/information scientists and domain scientists and 2) Leveraging work (either scientific, social, or technical) that is already being done.
Here’s a look at the Building Blocks [look into a good way to describe building blocks] The objective of the Building Blocks is to contribute to the EarthCube enterprise by developing, integrating and utilizing current cyberinfrastructure in coordinated efforts to serve a broader segment of the academic geosciences community..Some of these awards include Web Services Across Domains, Integrating Discrete and Continuous Data, and Establishing Community Inventory or Resources for Geoscience Interoperability
Conceptual DesignsThe second type of EarthCube Projects are the Conceptual Design, which are Awards that are designing a possible reference architecture for EarthCube, these include the RCN’sEarthCube RCNs are intended to advance geosciences cyberinfrastructure through interaction, discussion and planning between geoscientists and cyberinfrastructure experts. A great example of this is the EC3 Award which has a series of field trips planned during which field geologists and computer scientists both watch and learn how the other does their job in different point of the data life cycle in order to address and remove Challenges in the collection, management, and integration of field data.
To give you an in-depth look into one of the projects, a video made by the PI of OceanLink BB, Tom Narock. This video was made…. [insert community engagement aspect]
Finally on this slide we get to the Test Governance Award, which is the project I work on and have the most knowledge about regarding current efforts.
Lee Allison of the Arizona Geological Survey is the Principle Investigator on the ECTEG Project. Lee wishes he could be here, but is currently in Vienne at the European Geology Union annual meeting. So we have a short video of Lee explaining our piece of the EarthCube portfolio.
As Lee mentioned the ECTEG project contains a broad, two-year time the first year consisting of collecting stakeholder needs and ideas about governance, integrating those concepts, and synthesizing them into a recommended governance model or “charter” to propose to the NSF. [CLICK] the start indicates where we are right now in this process and the next slide will look deeper into this point.
This image is really what we are calling our “Roadmap to a Charter”. As you can see, it’s a big of a daunting image so I am going to break it down into sizable pieces. First Where this star is, is our crowdsourcing efforts. Crowdsourcing can mean many things, depending on many factors such as subject domain and application. For our purposes, crowdsourcing is defined as obtaining information or input into a particular task or project by enlisting the services of a number of people. This plan focuses on two specific applications of crowdsourcing: To facilitate general communications and synergy among EarthCube stakeholder communities; and (more immediately) To enable stakeholder input and collaboration in developing the EarthCube governance charter.
One large component of our crowdsourcing efforts has been to attend a series of Professional Conferences. The American Meterology Society meeting is actually where I met Walt, introduced him to EarthCube, and established this communication. That is what these conferences are meant to do. Expand our outreach to the EarthCube community, get their feedback on what they think of the initative and encourage them to further engage with us. One method of that is social media.
Another is on Websites. We have two sites,
So as we return back to the roadmap to a charter, the next big milestone in the timeline was when the Test Governance team held a series of Workshops.
From January to March 2014, the EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance Projectheld a series of four Stakeholder Assembly Workshops, during which key EarthCube community groups were brought together to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate about how they might achieve their own goals as well as aligning those goals with EarthCube. These Assembly workshops also had the goal to solicit clear guidance on the governance of EarthCube as part of the development of an overarching draft charter, by-laws, and terms of reference to be presented to the EarthCube community during the EarthCube All-Hands Meeting in June 2014.Go through each stakeholder groupEach Assembly Workshop, and the workshop series as a whole, provided the EarthCube Test Governance Team with invaluable guidance on governance topics including coordination, collaboration, community building, messaging, and the project timeline/organization itself. The first workshop led to a significant ‘pivot’ in thinking of EarthCube ‘governing’ the community to instead EarthCube providing an array of services to the community through an EarthCube ‘commons’.In addition, some of the most concrete outcomes of the Assembly Workshops were the bottom-up formation of 17 working groups, each with associated milestones, deliverables and champions. These groups represent actionable next steps for each stakeholder community to achieve mutual goals moving forward with staff support from EarthCube Governance project’s Operations Center. Our task now is determining how/if these working groups will fit into the governance structure. Also, We realize that many of the working groups that were formed parallel many efforts be carried out by different groups and initiatives. A goal of ours is to design a governance structure that makes sure duplication of efforts is not a problem, and then different groups within the geoscience and cyberinfrstucture community can work together on common goals.
After the four Stakeholder Assembly Workshops was the Assembly synthesis workshop. True to it’s name, the purpose of this workshop was to synthesize the outcomes of the previous workshops, both Assembly Workshops and the End-User workshops spoke about earlier to craft the Draft EarthCube Demonstration charter. The Synthesis workshophad three major goals, which led to the successful creation of Draft Charter. These goals were to come to consensus on:Clear language defining the EarthCube vision, mission, and goalsThe primary functions of EarthCube governanceMajor components of governance necessary to support the identified functions The definition of the vision, mission, and goals in the Draft Charter is based on the grand science and technical challenges that came out of the End-User Workshops, as well as synthesis of discussions of requirements from the Assembly Workshops. Participants at the Synthesis Workshop participated in structured discussions based on this information answering the questions of what EarthCube could be in 10 years, and in 2 years. The answers to these questions were condensed, and refined into the stated vision, mission, and goals in the Draft Charter. Possible functions for EarthCube governance were derived from the discussions by the participants at the Assembly Workshops in addition to the science drivers and technical challenges identified by participants in the series of End-User Workshops [link]. From the many potential functions, participants at the Synthesis Workshop identified 19 critical functions grouped into three categories: leadership and vision, advocacy and engagement, and guiding technical implementation. Out of these functions, the group designed a proposed structure of what EarthCube governance would look like. And from that, a Draft Charter was created.
Back to this image one last time. This star actually represents where are now. While a considerable amount of work has been done on the Draft Charter thus far, it should by no means be considered final. Following the synthesis workshop, there were still several questions about EarthCube Governance that the group felt they could not answer, or that should not be answered by such a small group, but should be posed to the broader EarthCube community. Some of these questions include:Are the current vision, mission, and goals sufficient and correct?What constitutes “membership” in EarthCube?How do we ensure and promote collaboration and information flows between the various committees?How do we clarify the EarthCube “niche” among current and future efforts of a similar nature? How can we coordinate with those efforts to leverage existing knowledge and work?Answers to these questions, as well as a general feedback and input on the Draft Charter, will be gathered throughout May by groups including our own extended Governance Team, our Governance Project Evaluation Team, all of the Assembly Workshop participants including the Working Groups and Chartered Groups that were formed out of those workshops, and our top-level Advisory Committee. We will solicit the same feedback from larger EC community through our Newsletter, social media, and ListServs. Our Test Governance team will then synthesize the crowdsource responses and present a second draft Charter to our Advisory Committee for another review. The next iteration of this will then be presented at our EarthCube All-Hands meeting in June, vetted, and then finally sent for the NSF for review. If approved by the NSF, this draft charter will be put into
So here’s my final slide, an invitation to The EarthCube All-Hands Meeting. This meeting bring together project institutions, partners, collaborators, and scientists from across the globe to share their progress and experience with EarthCube thus far, and discuss and plan activities for the upcoming year. Furthermore it will be where we review and vet the draft demonstration charter for EarthCube. Registration is now open and the link on this slide will take to you our All-Hands Meeting page online. Expect an active and interactive, hands on meeting. We have a call for sessions, and posters, as this designed in the collaborative spirit of EarthCube and will provide multiple opportunities for networking and meaningful work, as well as the chance to share your efforts and to learn from others.
And that concludes my presentation. Thank you again for allowing me to share with you about EarthCube. Are there any questions? I will do my best to answer!
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Multi-disciplinary science to further understand our environmentE.g. physical, chemical, and biological processes in ocean ecosystemsUnderstand, adapt to, or propose changes in scientific approachUnderstand and test hypotheses and underlying controls of current scienceImproved prediction capabilitiesBetter use of available data or new ways of collecting/distributing dataChronological & Time-Series Data (distribution and analysis)Mutli-scale modeling – beyond increasing resolution, e.g. translation of variables, coupling between models, uncertaintiesAcquisition, assimilation, and modeling in cross-cutting regionsIntegration of long-tail scientific dataImproved collaboration and coordination among disparate funded projects/programs and disciplines; including improving upon the use of existing facilities and observatoriesCommunication of science (& data) to societyImproving science-based decision making in public policyWorkforce development & “data literacy”/”data savviness”