ESC Implementation Strategies

Potential Earth Science Collaboratory Implementation Strategies and Tactics

Note: all of these straties

Indirect Funding

Branding

Form a joint ESC effort without dedicated funding, and target ESC as the eventual home of components developed to other proposal calls. Hopefully, eventual deployment to ESC would give such proposals an advantage.

• Pros: Worked for CEOP
• Cons: May need to be more substantive

NASA ESDSWG

Make ESC a goal of the NASA Earth Science Working Groups.

• Pros: Technology Infusion, Reuse and Standards and Processes Group currently all work on core needs of the ESC, but are not aiming toward an ESC realization.
• Cons: Not clear that NASA wants to use ESDSWG for this; also leaves out key partners in other agencies, academia, commercial world...

Steering to a Common Target [Reference?] Architecture

Define an architecture; ask participants working on projects to "steer" their development so the products, tools or services fit into the ESC when complete

FlashMob

Everybody go to {some collaborative site} and try collaborating on workflows, tools, data, etc. Candidates would include:

• NASA Earth Exchange
• myexperiment.org

Unorthodox Recruiting

• Google Summer of Code
• Challenges