Moving Forward on the Earth Science Collaboratory-Details

Agenda

Programmatic

• NSF EarthCube
  • How are the ESIP ESC and NSF EarthCube efforts similar and different?
• NASA Computational Modeling and Cyberinfrastructure (CMAC) selections
  • Any newly funded collaboratory efforts?
• ESC Roadmap?
  • Let's define on some ball-park goals so we (the community) know where ESC is going
  • Near-term goals
  • Long-term goals

Technical (Hook and Emily)

• Presentation
• Take home messages from recent technical activities at NSF EarthCube
  • Discovery
  • Data
  • Semantics
  • Interoperability
  • Workflow
  • (no dedicated focus on) preservation & stewardship
• Brokering
  • Planning for role of brokering in ESC
  • Alignment with NSF EarthCube Brokering efforts? see Thursday morning's session on EarthCube - Brokering: A Way Forward for Global Multi-disciplinary Data Sharing
• RAMADDA hackathon
  • We are hosting a dedicated session to try out one collaboration framework (RAMADDA).
  • Friday morning's session Earth Science Collaboratory Hackathon
    • What do we want to get out of the session?
• HubZero update
  • Planning to hold webex presentation about HubZero: A Platform for Scientific Collaboration in August.
  • Pending interest, we can explore, compare, and assess HubZero for Earth Science needs.

Human Factors (Lynnes)

• TBD