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.
3. 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
4. Software Big Data People
Hardware
Working together to find
common solutions for
different needs
6. Roadmaps & Concept Designs (technical roadmaps and small
prototype designs)
End-userWorkshops & Stakeholder Alignment (identifying
community needs & wants)
Test GovernanceAward (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
7. CURRENT PROJECTS
Test Enterprise Governance
EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance: An Agile
Approach
M. Lee Allison, University of Arizona
Research Coordination Networks (RCNs)
C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for
Paleogeosciences
Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University
Building a Sediment Experimentalist Network (SEN)
Wonsuck Kim, University of Texas at Austin
EC3: Earth-Centered Communication for
Cyberinfrastructure
Matty Mookerjee, Sonoma State University
Conceptual Designs
Developing a Data-Oriented Human-Centric Enterprise
Architecture for EarthCube
Chaowei Yang, George Mason University
Enterprise Architecture for Transformative Research and
Collaboration Across the Geosciences
Ilya Zaslavsky, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Building Blocks
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
SiriJodha Khalsa, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Integrating Discrete and Continuous Data
David Maidment, University of Texas at Austin
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
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
INSPIRE
Enabling Transformation in the Social Sciences, Geosciences,
and Cyberinfrastructure through Stakeholder Alignment
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana
12. ALL-HANDS MEETING GOALS
1. Convergence on the
Demonstration
Governance Charter:
next steps on
implementation
2. Coordination among
projects
3. Forum for Geoscience
Cyberinfrastructure
conversations
13. CRITICAL FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNANCE
Leadership &
Vision
• Setting strategic direction
• Coordinating, communicating,
policies, etc.
• Coordination with NSF
Guiding
Technical
Implementation
• Explicit connection between scientific
process and technical functions
• Alignment of funded projects
• Stewardship of architecture framework
Advocacy &
Engagement
• Disseminate, engage, connect, partner
• Other organizations and initiatives,
end-users, educators, professional
societies, publishers, and more
14. Leadership Council Office
Council of
Data
Facilities
Engagement
Team
Technology/
Architecture
Standing
Committee
Liaison
Program
Team
Science
Standing
Committee
Participants
Technical
Funded Team
Working
Group
Science
Funded Team
Special
Interest
Group
Special
Interest
Group
Working
Group
Working
Group
Concept
Design
Projects
RCNs
Bldg
Blocks
16. ALL-HANDS MEETING OUTCOMES:
TECHNOLOGY PANEL
• Phil Yang, George Mason University
EarthCube Conceptual Design: Developing a Data-Oriented Human-Centric
Enterprise Architecture for EarthCube
• Steve Richard, Arizona Geological Survey
EarthCube Architecture Outcomes
• Don Middleton/Mohan Ramamurthy, NCAR/Unidata
EarthCube Council of Data Facilities
20. ON THE HORIZON: TIMELINE FOR NEXT STEPS
July 17 and 21: Webinar for important information on the new
Standing Committees and Teams
Late August: First Standing Committees and Teams virtual meetings
August 31: Deadline for nominations of At-Large Leadership
Council members
September 15: Selection of At-Large Leadership Council members
October 1: Demonstration organization in place
21. The folks behind the curtain
Operations
Kim Patten
Genevieve Pearthree
Anna Katz
Rachael Black
Kate Kretschmann
Secretariat
David Arctur
Kerstin Lehnert
Erin Robinson
Steve Diggs
George Percivall
Steve Richard
Ted Habermann
Ilya Zaslavsky
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Jewlya Lynn
Advisory Committee
Paul Edwards
Holly Given
Linda Gundersen
Thomas Hoffmann
John Townes
Beth Plale
Sonya Legg
Operational Management Group
Gary Crane
Jim Bowring
Bruce Caron
Cecelia Deluca
23. Robert Gurney, University of Reading
M. Lee Allison,Arizona Geological Survey
Co-chairs, Belmont Forum e-Infrastructure
Steering Committee
e-infrastructure
and data
management to
support global
change research
24. Established to foster global environmental change research;
Initiated June 2009 by NSF & NERC, building on IGFA
26. Belmont Forum e-Infrastructure
and Data Management Initiative
• 18-month long process
• International Steering Committee
• 1 member per country,
international organizations
• National delegations
• ~ 10 members per country ~ 140
people
• Secretariat – jointly funded by US
(NSF) and UK (NERC)
• Knowledge HubWeb platform
27. Architecture & Interoperability
WP1: Standards
WP2: Improved interface between the computation
and data infrastructures
WP3: Harmonisation of global data infrastructure
for sharing environmental data
Governance
WP4: Data Sharing
WP5: Open Data
WP6: Capacity Building
28. Timeline and Goals
July 2013 – September 2014: Programme of international community
building and strategy development activities
December 2014: Community Strategy and Implementation Plan
produced’
January 2015: Belmont Forum decides on possible Phase II funding
call
March 2015: Final report delivery
May 2015: Possible funding solicitation
29. Belmont Forum e-Infrastructure & Data Management Panel
Cindy Chandler, WHOI
Mustapha Mokrane, ICSU-World Data System
BrianWee, NEON
Hinweis der Redaktion
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.
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
Working together to find a common solution for disparate needs
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.
From January to March 2014, the EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance Project held 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.
Each 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’ similar in structure to Collective Impact Model (Ka
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.
nia & Kramer, 2011). Our task now is determining now …. We realize that there will
Number of participants
Visuals of what types of information the surveys provided us with (SPE flow charts, graphs, and comments)
These results were taken forward to inform discussion at the All-Hands Meeting
Transition into All-Hands; mention that you can still register by visiting the Workspace.
Revised 7-7-14 MLA
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
Understand and test hypotheses and underlying controls of current science
Improved prediction capabilities
Better use of available data or new ways of collecting/distributing data
Chronological & Time-Series Data (distribution and analysis)
Mutli-scale modeling – beyond increasing resolution, e.g. translation of variables, coupling between models, uncertainties
Acquisition, assimilation, and modeling in cross-cutting regions
Integration of long-tail scientific 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
Improving science-based decision making in public policy
Workforce development & “data literacy”/”data savviness”