EarthCube Introduction for the IT/FOSS Workshop

DATA & SOFTWARE AT YOURFINGERTIPS: NSF'S EARTHCUBE AND THECOMPUTER/INFORMATION SCIENCES

EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance WorkshopBoulder, COMarch 5-7, 2014

WORKSHOP GOALSSeek guidance on a community-based plan to further cyberinfrastructure in the geosciencesAssess needs, visions, opportunities, and challenges to the EarthCube builders for the computer and information sciencesIdentify ways the EarthCube Commons can support these communities

NSF VISION AND GOALS

Eva ZanzerkiaEarthCube Program ManagerNSF

EARTHCUBE TEST ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE PROJECT

An agile approach to design a system that catalyzes the field and works for the community

How do we link your tools, standards, and skills to create EarthCube?

Stakeholders (Assembly) –governance ideas, testing

Integrate stakeholder concepts -

crowdsource

Synthesize and

recommend to NSF

Establish Organizational

Demo

Facilitate convergence

on system design, data

standards

Evaluate results: basis for

long term organization

Governance timeline – Year 2

Organizational timeline – Year 1Demo phase Governance

charter

NSF solicitation?

WHAT IS EARTHCUBE“GOVERNANCE?”

Not imposition of unwanted command and control

Resistance is futile!

Governance is finding solutions to specific problems, fostering

trust, reconcilinginterests, and coordinatingcommunities.

Providing a ‘backbone’ to help build community

OPPORTUNITIES IN SHAPINGEARTHCUBE

EarthCube governance is a blank canvas

We are looking to you to paint the future

EarthCube CommonsSupporting a voice for the community

Industry & FOSS: Instrumentation, Software, and Technology Developers

Data Facilities &

Users

Professional Societies

IT/CS/ Information

Scientists

End-User Communities &

Workshop Participants

EarthCube Awards Assembly

AdvisoryCouncil

Research Science Communities

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT (YEAR 1): EARTHCUBE ASSEMBLY

Industry & FOSS: Instrumentation, Software, and Technology Developers

Data Facilities &

Users

Professional Societies

IT/CS/ Information

Scientists

End-User Communities &

Workshop Participants

EarthCube Awards Research

Science Communities

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT (YEAR 1): EARTHCUBE ASSEMBLY

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Assembly Advisory Council

DATA FACILITIES WORKSHOPWASHINGTON, JANUARY 14-16, 2014

• Council of Data Facilities• Topical Working Groups• EarthCube staff, logistics, travel

funding

EARTHCUBE PORTFOLIO WORKSHOP(NSF-funded EarthCube projects)Boulder, February 12-14, 2014

• Coordinating Committee• Community-driven system design

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT (YEAR 1): CROWDSOURCING

New website

www.earthcube.org

EARTHCUBE.ORGThe “Informational Site” Portal

The WorkspaceEarthcube.org

The “Workspace”

A CALL FOR YOUR INVOLVEMENT• Upcoming community workshops: Jan – March 2014

• All Hands Meeting, June 24-26, 2014, Washington, DC

• Crowdsourcing:

• Strategic Pathways exercises

• Input & feedback on community

models

• Social Media – Twitter, Facebook

• www.earthcube.org

ASSEMBLY ADVISORY COUNCIL SUMMITAPRIL 16-18, 2014 LODGE ON THE DESERT, TUCSON, AZ

EARTHCUBE COMMONS

Resolving the social, cultural, and organizational challenges to building infrastructure

EVALUATORS ROLESWorkshop facilitation

Meeting observation and periodic interventions (some built into the agenda and some in “real time” to respond to emergent dynamics) to ask questions that will generate reflection and learning on governance

Targeted facilitation support for the chartering of the new forums after the workshop

FORMATIVE EVALUATION

Testing and analyzing process and solutions

Stakeholder alignment

DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION“learn as you go”

Real-time feedbackOngoing interaction between project staff,

evaluators, and participants (‘strategic learning’)

DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION

Three pillars: 1) Learning - “The systematic use of data for continuous improvement and the collective interpretation of new information”

2) Being Strategic - “Applying the collective interpretation of information to strategy”

3) Applied Research - “Utilizing theory and research to ground both strategy and learning in a broader context”