EARTHCUBETransforming Geoscience Research

EISWG Spring Meeting

April 28, 2014

Anna Katz, EarthCube Project Coordinator

AGENDA

1. Introduction to EarthCube: Overview & Purpose

2. EarthCube Journey (a brief history)

3. Current Efforts

4. Questions & Discussion

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

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 Perspectiv

es

Atmo-spheric

Chemistry

Climate & Large Scale

Dynamics

Paleo-Climate

Meteor-ology

Aeronomy

Space Weather

Magneto-spheric Physics

Solar Terrestrial

Igneous Petrology & Volcan-

ology

Structure &

Tectonics

Geo Ed & Workforce

Training

Geodesy

NCAR

Geophysics &

Geody-namics

Geobiology & Paleoen-

tology

Cryosphere & Ice

Dynamics

Critical Zone &

Soil Science

Chemical Ocean-ography

Geomor-phology

Hydrology

Sediment-ology & Strati-graphy

Marine Geophysics

Physical Ocean-ography

Marine Geology

BiologicalOcean-ography

Ocean Education

Ocean Drilling & Engineer-

ingSoftware

& Modeling

Bio-informatics

Ecosystems

Biology

High PerfComputing

Semantics &

Ontologies

Algorithms & DataMining

EarthCube CI

Solid and Aqueous Geochem

-istry

Who is EarthCube?

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

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SCIENCE CHALLENGES

FROM END-USER WORKSHOPS

Full List of End-User Workshops at: http://earthcube.org/page/end-user-workshops

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES

DERIVED FROM THE END-USER WORKSHOPS

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES

DERIVED FROM THE END-USER WORKSHOPS (IF YOU REMOVE THE WORD “DATA”)

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

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EARTHCUBE PORTFOLIO

Building Blocks Awards Deploying Web Services Across Multiple

Geoscience DomainsTim Ahern, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Specifying and Implementing ODSIP, A Data-Service Invocation ProtocolDavid Fulker, OPeNDAP

A Broker Framework for Next Generation Geoscience (BCube)SiriJodha Khalsa, National Snow and Ice Data Center 

Integrating Discrete and Continuous DataDavid Maidment, University of Texas at Austin

OceanLink: Leveraging Semantics and Crowdsourcing in Data Sharing and DiscoveryThomas Narock, University of Maryland

A Cognitive Computer Infrastructure for GeoscienceShanan E. Peters, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Earth System Bridge: Spanning Scientific Communities with Interoperable Modeling FrameworksScott Peckham, University of Colorado at Boulder

Software Stewardship for the GeosciencesYolanda 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

EARTHCUBE PORTFOLIO

Conceptual Designs Developing a Data-Oriented Human-

Centric Enterprise Architecture for EarthCubePhil Yang, George Mason University

Enterprise Architecture for Transformative Research and Collaboration Across the GeosciencesIlya Zaslavsky, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Research Coordination Networks C4P: Collaboration and

Cyberinfrastructure for PaleogeosciencesKerstin Lehnert, Columbia University

Building a Sediment Experimentalist NetworkWonsuck Kim, University of Texas at Austin

EC3: Earth-Centered Communication for Cyberinfrastructure - Challenges of Field Data Collection, Management, and IntegrationMatty 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

OCEANLINK: SEMANTICS AND LINKED DATA FOR SHARING AND DISCOVERY

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

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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?

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

Crowdsourcing

Exhibit BoothsSocial MediaWebsiteProfessional Societies

Assembly Workshops

7 Stakeholder Communities 4 Workshops

Synthesis Workshop

Synthesize info from End-User & Assembly WorkshopsDevelop 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

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)

EARTHCUBE.ORG & WORKSPACE

Crowdsourcing

Exhibit BoothsSocial MediaWebsiteProfessional Societies

Assembly Workshops

7 Stakeholder Communities 4 Workshops

Synthesis Workshop

Synthesize info from End-User & Assembly WorkshopsDevelop 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

ASSEMBLY STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOPS

Data Facilities (Jan. 15-17)

EarthCube Projects (Feb. 12-14)

IT/CS/IS/FOSS (March 5-7)

End-Users & Professional Societies (March 18-20)

ASSEMBLY SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP

April 16-18, 2014 Participants

Champions from the Assembly Workshops

Purpose Craft the Draft

EarthCube Demonstration Charter

Crowdsourcing

Exhibit BoothsSocial MediaWebsiteProfessional Societies

Assembly Workshops

7 Stakeholder Communities 4 Workshops

Synthesis Workshop

Synthesize info from End-User & Assembly WorkshopsDevelop 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

EARTHCUBE ALL-HANDS MEETING

JUNE 24-26, 2014WASHINGTON, DC

For more information and to register, visit: http://workspace.earthcube.org/all-hands-meeting

THANK YOU!

Any questions?

SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/NSFearthcube

Questions, comments, networking

Images

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/EarthCube

#EarthCube

Meeting Tweets & Pics

YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/user/EarthCubeNSF

Introductions to the EarthCube Awards

Webinar Videos

SlideSharehttp://www.slideshare.net/earthcube

Workshop Slides

Community Webinar Slides

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

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

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.