ESC Telecon 1

ESC Telecon #1: 8-15-2011

Cyberinfrastructure - architecture, standards, reusable services and components
Sociological - the sociology of adoption, productive interaction
Programmatic - how to coordinate efforts across different agencies and umbrella groups
User Stories - Use Cases for construction of ESC + Outreach Stories

Maybe start with User Stories?
First, what is the User Model (e.g., different kinds of stakeholders)
If different working groups, then what are the charters and when can we integrate?
Start with User Stories/Stakeholders, then look at subgrouping
As we do User Stories, identify CI, Soc., and Programmatic implications of the stories
Template for use cases: these are the things we need to identify
See NSF Workshop: Understanding Infrastructure: Tensions and Dynamics(?)
- Review on how historical infrastructure has developed, lessons learned
- Looks at socio-technical aspect, tensions from change
- AI: Mark will dig that up
Also European study on what researchers want (Parse-Insight? Surfshare? Other?)
AI Chris (Done: User Stories): Set up page wiki for User Stories

Fast-track program around data interoperability
Governance structure to make interop sustainable over the longer term
Holding telecoms with "community"
Charrette in Oct.(?)
Community to provide ideas on how to achieve these goals
- Vette at Charette
- EAGER award (no peer review)
  - 300K to demo capabilities
- + 6 mo: Winners down-select to peer-reviewed process for 1-2M awards
- +12 mo: Start building infrastructure
Options
- Assist on Discovery Cluster white paper?
- Author ESC white paper?
- Other?

2 Foci: governance and data interoperability (interworkability?)
What about overall ESIP white paper? Need to talk to excom folks.
But just in case, put a short discussion in paper on ESIP governance, then do Discovery Cluster governance
- Our model is informed by Open Provenance Model
- Not just standards but also conventions across the community
- BUT only a handful of active people on this
One paper or two papers?
- Writeup needed at excom level summarizing spectrum of clusters, then discovery in detail, then ESC
- Or two papers, referencing each other, one on governance (only), one on discovery
Is white paper equivalent to an entry for EAGER grant?
Who is going to the charrette?
- One person or two? e.g., Carol at exec level, +somebody from Discovery Cluster
AI (Done): Mark - find out if Excom is going to write a governance paper (others chime in as necessary)
AI : Ruth: start with abstract and outline paper so others can volunteer or be assigned writing assignments
Will include discussion on governance