Presentation in the Digital Preservation track of Open Repositories 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 12, 2012.

1. Stewardship and Long Term
Preservation of Earth Science
Data by the ESIP Federation
Open Repositories 2012
Edinburgh, Scotland 12 July 2012
By Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich, Knowledge
Motifs LLC, USA

2. Overview – what’s to be covered
• Who / what is ESIP& how is work done
• Past & present activities / products of clusters
/ communities in these areas
– Data & Informatics
– Education & Outreach
• Current Collaborators
• Possible synergies?

3. Umm… who?? Or what??
Foundation of Earth Science
Partners or ESIP Federation A brief history

4. ESIP Organizational Structure
• Membership Types • Type 1
• Type 2
• Type 3
• Associate Membership
• Membership not
necessary to
participate!

5. ESIP Organizational Structure
• Membership Types
• How is work done?
• Products & Services
Testbed
• Data stewardship
committee
• Semantic web cluster
• Data Management
Short Course (cluster?)

6. Is a knowledge network for
science data and technology
practitioners, i.e., people who
are building components for a
science data infrastructure.
The ESIP Federation…
People of ESIP and the ESIP Communities They Connect To
Committees
Working Groups
Clusters
People

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

8. Supports science through discipline
neutral IT collaboration and partner
implementation. Using community
consensus, the ESIP Federation
addresses informatics, science,
technology and governance topics
through its many formal and informal
groups.
ESIP and Data, Information & Tool
Integration
ESIP Committee, Working
Group and Cluster Activities
Committees
Working Groups
Clusters

9. ESIP Community Coordination
ESIP supports connections at the data and systems levels by providing a neutral
venue to build relationships at the human and organization level.
Interoperability
In Person
Meetings
ESIP Commons Telecons/WebEx
Clusters,
Working Groups,
Committees

10. A few definitions from
ESIP POV
• Data & Informatics
– collaborative activities in
data preservation and
stewardship, information
quality, data products and
services, discovery, cloud
computing, and semantic
web.

11. Data Stewardship
• Provenance Context & Content Standard
• Data Stewardship Principles
• Data Citation Guidelines
• Identifiers for Data objects
• Next … Identifiers for Researchers???

12. Data Informatics
• Ontologies • SWEET
• Data Quality

13. A few definitions from
ESIP POV
• Education & Outreach
– DM short course

14. Associated activities / organizations
• DataOne
• DataConservancy
• NSF’s Earth Cube
• SCIence Data
Infrastructure for
Preservation’s focus
upon Earth Science data
(SCIDIP-ES)?
• Digital Curation Centre
in the UK?