ESIP Federation: Connecting Communities for Advancing Data, Systems, Human

& Organizational Interoperability

November 22, 2013

Carol MeyerExecutive DirectorFoundation for Earth Sciencecarolbmeyer@esipfed.org

ESIP VisionESIP VisionTo be a leader in promoting the collection, stewardship and use of Earth science data, information and knowledge that is responsive to societal needs.

Moving into the Social Era

“We need to use business models that will allow connected humans with shared interests and goals to work together and to produce returns”

- Nilofer Merchant, 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era

The ESIP Federation is

A broad-based, distributed community of Earth science data and information technology practitioners.

Community Platform

Platform: A powerful ecosystem that scales, morphs and incorporates new features “planks”, [community members].

- Phil Simon, The Age of the Platform

ESIP: Connecting Earth Science Data Agencies, Functions and Topics

Data Scientists

App Developers

Data CentersScienceTool Dev

Educators

ScienceNetworks

Librarians

ESIP Federation

Technical Topics

Domain Topics

Education Topics

ESIP Platform for Earth Science Data &Technology Community Engagement

Connecting Data, Systems, People and

Organizations

Virtual and In-Person

Meetings

Wiki, Commons, Website, Testbed

Clusters, Working Groups & Committe

es

ESIP Products• Technical

Conventions• Best Practices• Professional

Development• Expert

Knowledge Transfer

• Technical Marketplace

ESIP Core Values

AgileCollaborativeCollegialCommunity-drivenInnovativeNeutralOpenParticipatoryVoluntary

ESIP Cares About

DataInteroperabilityInnovationReuse and ExtensibilityMaking Stuff Work

Things ESIP Does

• Venue for Collaboration and Connectionso Both virtual and in-persono Support with suite of

collaboration tools• Community Building

o Mini-grants and other support for small projects (e.g. testbed)

o Peer Recognitiono Student Engagement

• Professional Developmento Technical Workshopso Non-technical Workshops (e.g.

Evaluation, Communication)o Data Management

Course/Workshops

Things ESIP Does #2

• Outreacho Education (e.g. annual teacher workshop on climate change)o Professional Societies (e.g. AGU, GSA)o International Efforts (e.g. GEO, ISRSE)

• Consensus Buidling on Emerging Topicso Data Citation http://dx.doi.org/10.7269/P3862DC8o Stewardship Principles http://dx.doi.org/10.7269/P34F1NNJ o Unique Identifiers

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12145-011-0083-6; o NRC Study

Of Interest to SILS

ESIP Platform represents a knowledge exchange Experts give and take Inter-community (domain, function, science)

Topical Synergies Data Preservation – documentation, metadata, identifiers,

provenance Emerging Technologies – semantics, ontologies, cloud computing,

software sustainability Discovery, Access and Use

Implementation Partners IS professionals are partners in preservation IS schools are a key training ground IS personnel should be embedded with domain and computer

scientists

Invitation to Engage

ESIP is an open forum 2-way exchange Low barrier to entry Meta-community

Community-driven activities = maximum relevance Make collaboration work for your day job!

Thank You!

carolbmeyer@esipfed.org

On the Web – @ESIPFedesipfed.orgwiki.esipfed.orgcommons.esipfed.org

Extra Slides

ESIP Community

Data Providers

Data Archives

Tool & SystemDevelopers

ApplicationDevelopers

UsersMul

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Scie

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Domai

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Academia Corpo

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ESIP Groups

• Standing Committeeso Data Stewardshipo Educationo Information Technology and

Interoperabilityo Products and Services

• Administrative Committeeso Constitution and Bylawso Finance and Appropriationso Partnership

• Working Groupso Air Qualityo Climate Educationo Energy & Climateo Visioneers

• Clusterso Cloud Computingo Decisionso Discoveryo Documentationo Drupalo Earth Science Collaboratoryo Geospatialo Open Sourceo Semantic Webo Visualizationo Student Fellows

• And Yours?