https://wiki.esipfed.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Cwhite&feedformat=atomEarth Science Information Partners (ESIP) - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T17:08:37ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.35.14https://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=L_Wyborn_Statement&diff=65952L Wyborn Statement2018-11-26T17:57:28Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>I have a long history in the Earth sciences working both as a research geoscientist and a data scientist in Australia and Internationally in both the government and academic sectors.<br />
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My current interests are on enabling in situ analytics and in generating High Performance Data sets that can be programmatically accessed in real time anywhere, without the need to download locally and spend endless frustrating hours munging and reformatting the data into coherent datasets that can then be analysed. I believe that Earth, space and environment sciences are global and that when it comes to developing standards and infrastructures to enable real time programmatic access to data then yes, one should work local, but think Global! That is the development of standards, data models and ontologies that enable FAIR and easy sharing of data should be a global activity wherever possible but must allow for local/regional variations.<br />
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In the last year or so, I have been active in Australia with a group who are forming the Earth and Environmental Science Information Partners (E2SIP) Down Under. What we hope to do is leverage some of the excellent work that is being done in the ESIP community in the US for Australian projects and at the same time, bring some Australian initiatives to the ESIP community for sharing. I see bringing the Australian perspective into ESIP as the start of sharing globally the excellent work that has been achieved by the US ESIP community.<br />
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I have been/is involved in international informatics projects for a long time, including IGSN, OneGeology, GeoSciML, Oceans Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP) and the Belmont Forum. I am currently Chair of the Australian Academy of Science ‘National Committee for Data in Science’ and am co-chair of the ESIP/RDA Earth Space and Environmental Sciences Interest Group. I am on the AGU Executive Committee for the Earth and Space Sciences Informatics Section and have been on ESSI Fall Meeting Program Committee. I am also on the Advisory Board Member for the AGU’s Data Programs. In 2014 I was awarded the Australian Government Public Service Medal for long-term contributions to the management of Australian Public Sector Geoscience Research Data and in 2015 the Geological Society of America Geoinformatics Career Achievement Award.<br />
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''Back to [[Nomination_Committee/2019_Nominations_and_Ballot]]''</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Nomination_Committee/2019_Nominations_and_Ballot&diff=65939Nomination Committee/2019 Nominations and Ballot2018-11-14T21:51:19Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>Each year, the ESIP Federation conducts elections of its officers, committee chairs and Administrative Committee members. We are at the time of year when we begin accepting nominations for the following positions which are elected Federation-wide: (multiple nominees for a position are welcome and encouraged)<br />
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Nominations coming from the Nominating Committee are indicated by "NomCom" and do not require a second. Incumbents in a position are indicated by (i) following their name. Nominations will be accepted through '''October 31, 2018'''. Send nominations (self-nomination is encouraged) to nominations@esipfed.org. <br />
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Candidates are invited to submit statements about their candidacy to be posted on this site.<br />
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Updated position descriptions are available [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o394LekS6RHr0OJcsjs7fWzUhoQcCUdhSIRiZe52GBI/edit here]. Note that with the changing relationship currently up for vote there will be some shift in duties (more information [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BNVvAjdVTSk0qt123J4fQkCzZY9KehSdVO6XNqUCqfI/edit#slide=id.g17fb2fb0d5_0_0 here]).<br />
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(Click on each Position to view its description and Committee's role)<br />
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{| width="800" border="1"<br />
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! width="40%" scope="col" | POSITION<br />
! width="30%" scope="col" | NOMINEE<br />
! width="30%" scope="col" | CANDIDATE STATEMENT<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[President]]</p> <br />
| Karl Benedict<br />
| [[K Benedict Statement | K Benedict Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Vice President]]</p> <br />
| Steve Diggs (i) <br><br />
Mike Daniels<br />
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| [[S Diggs Statement 2018| Steve Diggs Statement]] <br><br />
[[M Daniels Statement 2018| Mike Daniels Statement]]<br />
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|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[C&B Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Governance Committee Chair]]</p> <br />
| Denise Hills <br><br />
Ward Fleri<br />
| [[D Hills Statement | Denise Hills Statement]] <br><br />
[[W Fleri Statement | Ward Fleri Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan=1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[FiCom Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Finance and Appropriations Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Rebecca Koskela<br />
| [[R Koskela Statement | Rebecca Koskela Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Partnership Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Partnership Committee Chair]]</p> <br />
| Nancy Hoebelheinrich (i)<br />
| [[N Hoebelheinrich Statement 2018 | Nancy Hoebelheinrich Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Data Stewardship Chair| Data Stewardship Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Ruth Duerr <br><br />
| [http://ronininstitute.org/research-scholars/ruth-duerr/ Ruth Duerr Statement]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Ed Chair| Education Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Becky Reid <br><br />
| [[B Reid Statement |Becky Reid Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[IT&I Chair| Information Technology & Interoperability Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Dave Blodgett<br />
| [[D Blodgett Statement | Dave Blodgett Statement ]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[SemTech Chair| Semantic Technologies Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Lewis McGibbney<br><br />
Andrea Thomer<br />
| [[L McGibbney Statement | Lewis McGibbney Statement]]<br><br />
[[A Thomer Statement | Andrea Thomer Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[FES Board| At Large Board Member (2 positions)]]</p><br />
|Mark Parsons<br><br />
Tracey Pilone<br><br />
Lesley Wyborn<br />
| [[M Parsons Statement | Mark Parsons Statement]]<br><br />
[[T Pilone Statement | Tracey Pilone Statement]]<br><br />
[[L Wyborn Statement | Lesley Wyborn Statement]]<br />
|}<br />
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Nominations will be accepted through '''October 31, 2018'''. Send nominations (self-nomination is encouraged) to nominations@esipfed.org. Candidates are invited to submit statements about their candidacy to be posted on this site. <br />
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In addition, each ESIP Type elects representatives to each Administrative Committee. The current ESIP Type Representatives will be contacting their respective caucuses to begin accepting nominations for representatives to the following Committees:<br />
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::'''Executive Committee (ESIP Type Representative)'''<br />
::'''Constitution and Bylaws Committee'''<br />
::'''Finance and Appropriations Committee'''<br />
::'''Partnership Committee'''<br />
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<hr><br />
:The President, Vice-President, Committee Chairs and Type Representatives serve on the ESIP Federation Executive Committee. <br />
:The ESIP assembly votes on at-large ESIP representatives to serve on the Board of the Foundation for Earth Science.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Nomination_Committee/2019_Nominations_and_Ballot&diff=65938Nomination Committee/2019 Nominations and Ballot2018-11-14T21:50:54Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>Each year, the ESIP Federation conducts elections of its officers, committee chairs and Administrative Committee members. We are at the time of year when we begin accepting nominations for the following positions which are elected Federation-wide: (multiple nominees for a position are welcome and encouraged)<br />
<br />
Nominations coming from the Nominating Committee are indicated by "NomCom" and do not require a second. Incumbents in a position are indicated by (i) following their name. Nominations will be accepted through '''October 31, 2018'''. Send nominations (self-nomination is encouraged) to nominations@esipfed.org. <br />
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Candidates are invited to submit statements about their candidacy to be posted on this site.<br />
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Updated position descriptions are available [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o394LekS6RHr0OJcsjs7fWzUhoQcCUdhSIRiZe52GBI/edit here]. Note that with the changing relationship currently up for vote there will be some shift in duties (more information [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BNVvAjdVTSk0qt123J4fQkCzZY9KehSdVO6XNqUCqfI/edit#slide=id.g17fb2fb0d5_0_0 here]).<br />
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(Click on each Position to view its description and Committee's role)<br />
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{| width="800" border="1"<br />
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! width="30%" scope="col" | NOMINEE<br />
! width="30%" scope="col" | CANDIDATE STATEMENT<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[President]]</p> <br />
| Karl Benedict<br />
| [[K Benedict Statement | K Benedict Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Vice President]]</p> <br />
| Steve Diggs (i) <br><br />
Mike Daniels<br />
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| [[S Diggs Statement 2018| Steve Diggs Statement]] <br><br />
[[M Daniels Statement 2018| Mike Daniels Statement]]<br />
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|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[C&B Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Governance Committee Chair]]</p> <br />
| Denise Hills <br><br />
James Gallagher <br><br />
Ward Fleri<br />
| [[D Hills Statement | Denise Hills Statement]] <br><br />
[[W Fleri Statement | Ward Fleri Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan=1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[FiCom Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Finance and Appropriations Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Rebecca Koskela<br />
| [[R Koskela Statement | Rebecca Koskela Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Partnership Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Partnership Committee Chair]]</p> <br />
| Nancy Hoebelheinrich (i)<br />
| [[N Hoebelheinrich Statement 2018 | Nancy Hoebelheinrich Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Data Stewardship Chair| Data Stewardship Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Ruth Duerr <br><br />
| [http://ronininstitute.org/research-scholars/ruth-duerr/ Ruth Duerr Statement]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Ed Chair| Education Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Becky Reid <br><br />
| [[B Reid Statement |Becky Reid Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[IT&I Chair| Information Technology & Interoperability Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Dave Blodgett<br />
| [[D Blodgett Statement | Dave Blodgett Statement ]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[SemTech Chair| Semantic Technologies Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Lewis McGibbney<br><br />
Andrea Thomer<br />
| [[L McGibbney Statement | Lewis McGibbney Statement]]<br><br />
[[A Thomer Statement | Andrea Thomer Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[FES Board| At Large Board Member (2 positions)]]</p><br />
|Mark Parsons<br><br />
Tracey Pilone<br><br />
Lesley Wyborn<br />
| [[M Parsons Statement | Mark Parsons Statement]]<br><br />
[[T Pilone Statement | Tracey Pilone Statement]]<br><br />
[[L Wyborn Statement | Lesley Wyborn Statement]]<br />
|}<br />
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Nominations will be accepted through '''October 31, 2018'''. Send nominations (self-nomination is encouraged) to nominations@esipfed.org. Candidates are invited to submit statements about their candidacy to be posted on this site. <br />
<br />
In addition, each ESIP Type elects representatives to each Administrative Committee. The current ESIP Type Representatives will be contacting their respective caucuses to begin accepting nominations for representatives to the following Committees:<br />
<br />
::'''Executive Committee (ESIP Type Representative)'''<br />
::'''Constitution and Bylaws Committee'''<br />
::'''Finance and Appropriations Committee'''<br />
::'''Partnership Committee'''<br />
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<hr><br />
:The President, Vice-President, Committee Chairs and Type Representatives serve on the ESIP Federation Executive Committee. <br />
:The ESIP assembly votes on at-large ESIP representatives to serve on the Board of the Foundation for Earth Science.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=J_Gallagher_Statement&diff=65937J Gallagher Statement2018-11-14T21:50:23Z<p>Cwhite: Blanked the page</p>
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<div></div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=R_Koskela_Statement&diff=65907R Koskela Statement2018-11-08T00:45:01Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>Rebecca Koskela is the Executive Director of DataONE at the University of New Mexico. Her background is in high performance computing, data management, and bioinformatics. Rebecca has worked in the private sector (IBM, Cray Research, Intel, Aventis (now Sanofi), national laboratories (Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory), and universities/institutes (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Stanford, Mayo Clinic, University of Alaska, University of New Mexico).<br />
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I have been a member of the Financial Committee (FiCom) since 2014. FiCom has improved the documentation of the budgetary processes, created templates for funding requests as well as setting a schedule for requests to FiCom. Much has been accomplished but there is still more to do and I would like to see the tasks accomplished.<br />
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''Back to [[Nomination_Committee/2019_Nominations_and_Ballot]]''</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=D_Blodgett_Statement&diff=65853D Blodgett Statement2018-11-05T20:37:11Z<p>Cwhite: Created page with "''Back to Nomination_Committee/2019_Nominations_and_Ballot''"</p>
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<div>''Back to [[Nomination_Committee/2019_Nominations_and_Ballot]]''</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Nomination_Committee/2019_Nominations_and_Ballot&diff=65852Nomination Committee/2019 Nominations and Ballot2018-11-05T20:36:00Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>Each year, the ESIP Federation conducts elections of its officers, committee chairs and Administrative Committee members. We are at the time of year when we begin accepting nominations for the following positions which are elected Federation-wide: (multiple nominees for a position are welcome and encouraged)<br />
<br />
Nominations coming from the Nominating Committee are indicated by "NomCom" and do not require a second. Incumbents in a position are indicated by (i) following their name. Nominations will be accepted through '''October 31, 2018'''. Send nominations (self-nomination is encouraged) to nominations@esipfed.org. <br />
<br />
Candidates are invited to submit statements about their candidacy to be posted on this site.<br />
<br />
Updated position descriptions are available [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o394LekS6RHr0OJcsjs7fWzUhoQcCUdhSIRiZe52GBI/edit here]. Note that with the changing relationship currently up for vote there will be some shift in duties (more information [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BNVvAjdVTSk0qt123J4fQkCzZY9KehSdVO6XNqUCqfI/edit#slide=id.g17fb2fb0d5_0_0 here]).<br />
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(Click on each Position to view its description and Committee's role)<br />
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{| width="800" border="1"<br />
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! width="40%" scope="col" | POSITION<br />
! width="30%" scope="col" | NOMINEE<br />
! width="30%" scope="col" | CANDIDATE STATEMENT<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[President]]</p> <br />
| Karl Benedict<br />
| [[K Benedict Statement | K Benedict Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Vice President]]</p> <br />
| Steve Diggs (i) <br><br />
Mike Daniels<br />
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| [[S Diggs Statement 2018| Steve Diggs Statement]] <br><br />
[[M Daniels Statement 2018| Mike Daniels Statement]]<br />
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|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[C&B Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Governance Committee Chair]]</p> <br />
| Denise Hills <br><br />
James Gallagher <br><br />
Ward Fleri<br />
| [[D Hills Statement | Denise Hills Statement]] <br><br />
[[J Gallagher Statement | James Gallagher Statement]] <br><br />
[[W Fleri Statement | Ward Fleri Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan=1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[FiCom Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Finance and Appropriations Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Rebecca Koskela<br />
| [[R Koskela Statement | Rebecca Koskela Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Partnership Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Partnership Committee Chair]]</p> <br />
| Nancy Hoebelheinrich (i)<br />
| [[N Hoebelheinrich Statement 2018 | Nancy Hoebelheinrich Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Data Stewardship Chair| Data Stewardship Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Ruth Duerr <br><br />
| [[R Duerr Statement |Ruth Duerr Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Ed Chair| Education Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Becky Reid <br><br />
| [[B Reid Statement |Becky Reid Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[IT&I Chair| Information Technology & Interoperability Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Dave Blodgett<br />
| [[D Blodgett Statement | Dave Blodgett Statement ]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[SemTech Chair| Semantic Technologies Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Lewis McGibbney<br><br />
Andrea Thomer<br />
| [[L McGibbney Statement | Lewis McGibbney Statement]]<br><br />
[[A Thomer Statement | Andrea Thomer Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[FES Board| At Large Board Member (2 positions)]]</p><br />
|Mark Parsons<br><br />
Tracey Pilone<br><br />
Lesley Wyborn<br />
| [[M Parsons Statement | Mark Parsons Statement]]<br><br />
[[T Pilone Statement | Tracey Pilone Statement]]<br><br />
[[L Wyborn Statement | Lesley Wyborn Statement]]<br />
|}<br />
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Nominations will be accepted through '''October 31, 2018'''. Send nominations (self-nomination is encouraged) to nominations@esipfed.org. Candidates are invited to submit statements about their candidacy to be posted on this site. <br />
<br />
In addition, each ESIP Type elects representatives to each Administrative Committee. The current ESIP Type Representatives will be contacting their respective caucuses to begin accepting nominations for representatives to the following Committees:<br />
<br />
::'''Executive Committee (ESIP Type Representative)'''<br />
::'''Constitution and Bylaws Committee'''<br />
::'''Finance and Appropriations Committee'''<br />
::'''Partnership Committee'''<br />
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:The President, Vice-President, Committee Chairs and Type Representatives serve on the ESIP Federation Executive Committee. <br />
:The ESIP assembly votes on at-large ESIP representatives to serve on the Board of the Foundation for Earth Science.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=March_2017&diff=57092March 20172017-05-31T01:51:08Z<p>Cwhite: /* President's Report */</p>
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<div>=== March 2017 telecon notes ===<br />
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Emily Law, President<br><br />
Christine White, Vice President<br><br />
Helen Conover, Chair, Finance<br><br />
Mike Daniels, Chair, Governance<br><br />
Matt Mayernik, Chair, Data Stewardship<br><br />
Shelley Olds, Chair, Education<br><br />
Rich Signell, Chair, IT & I<br><br />
Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services<br><br />
Beth Huffer, Chair, Semantic Technologies<br><br />
Others on the call: <br />
Annie B., Bruce C., <br />
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==== Agenda ====<br />
Working notes are on a Google Doc on the Program Committee Slack channel: [1]<br><br />
Review of [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I_Mr_IXFUObJFizxgOVETFHai6vv5iE32kX8h_uGUso/edit February Notes] <br><br />
February notes were accepted. <br><br />
==== President's Report ====<br />
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Highlights<br><br />
JPL ESIP seminar: A 2 hour event was held on February 22 to showcase presentations made at the ESIP 2017 Winter meeting. The audience was primarily Earth Science data system technologists. Emily gave an introduction and overview of ESIP, followed by several talks given by various JPLers who attended the meeting and gave oral or poster presentations at the meeting. <br><br />
ESIP response to NSF RFI on Future Needs for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure: Response must be submitted by April 5. [https://www.loomio.org/d/2ZNOQYvb/cyberinfrastructure-needed-to-address-the-research-challenge-s- Loomio] and google doc are being used to draft and discuss a collective response. Draft was due March 10. Next step is for staff to synthesize for review before submission.<br><br />
The draft will be circulated to the Program Committee. Rich Signell noted that sometimes these collaborative efforts are biased toward those people who have the time to participate. This is an issue that is integral to volunteer organizations. Emily Law encouraged the Program Committee members to step up and participate. Program Committee members are charged to reach out to ESIP members to add their views to this document. Christine and Emily are leading this up.<br><br />
ESIP Board Meeting: First 2017 ESIP Board Meeting was held on March 2. Board officers were elected: Chair-Emily; Treasurer-Helen; Secretary-Christine. Financial report included a successful FY16 audit. Nomination Committee was approved (Chair-Tracey Pilone, Sophie Hou, Doug Fils, Karl Benedict, Pat Leahy). Near term focus: ESIP policies, processes and procedures.<br><br />
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Kudos: new ESIP website looks great.<br><br />
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==== Staff Report ====<br />
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Board meeting - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QJRJ3N4PIv63RXtKcd_NYA0VcGlCDcZcdSs1FQBhL5E/edit staff report]<br><br />
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==== Program Committee Reports ====<br />
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'''Data Stewardship''' - [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ESIP_Data_Stewardship_Strategic_Plan_Calendar_Year_2017 Committee plan draft]<br><br />
Matt reported on the draft of the strategic plan. Data management training will be ongoing. Other activities will be updated. Question: There has been a discussion of committee members writing a response to efforts of “data rescue”. There is an interest in creating a document to help people who are planning these activities to do so in a more informed and useful manner. Emily noted that ESIP is apolitical. Members can have a voice. If this document is to be an “ESIP” document, then it should be offered to the Program Committee and potentially to the Board for approval. Matt responded that the committee might simply inform members who would want to write such a document independently to do so without an ESIP imprimatur. Mike noted that data rescue efforts could use this information. Emily noted that strategic plans should also map to the ESIP strategic plan. Matt had a committee budget question about supporting speakers for the meeting. Annie noted that historically travel support was for plenary speakers. Helen noted that committees put their budget requests in the fall, and some include funding for invited speakers. A plan is being envisioned to use available funds to support some travel for break-out speakers. <br><br />
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'''Education'''<br><br />
* [[http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Education/2017EducationPlan|2017 Implementation plan]]<br><br />
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Education/Out2Lunch Out 2 Lunch webinar series] - 10 minute demos of Earth Science data tools & resources<br><br />
* Summer ed workshop @ ESIP Summer meeting<br><br />
Shelley introduced the implementation plan and the activities of the committee. The Out 2 lunch videos are available on [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8X9E6I5_i8iSGst95siRtwV0Fy9zJfcd YouTube]. The Summer ed workshop will include teachers working with drones for their classrooms. Shelley noted that the committee “membership” is a concern, since the listserv is large, but the number of people on a call is relatively small. The Policies and Procedures Document might want to capture how committees can justify decision-making. In terms of accepting new people to join a list-serv, Emily noted that ESIP is an open community. Christine noted that every person needs to adhere to the ESIP [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ESIP_Code_of_Conduct code of conduct]. Each community member is as active as they want to be. <br><br />
NOTE: We need to work on a process to report someone who violates the code of conduct. <br><br />
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'''IT&I'''<br> <br />
[http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interoperability_and_Technology/Tech_Dive_Webinar_Series Tech Dive Webinar Series]<br><br />
Rich: An ESRI person (Christine) talked about Story Maps. This is an enriched interactive experience. The call had more than 40 people. The next presentation is about big data on the Amazon Cloud. <br><br />
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'''Products & Services'''<br><br />
Prepping for the next iteration of FUNding Friday in Bloomington<br><br />
Soren: The visioneers call in April will be updating the FUNding Friday event and updating to the ESIP Lab.<br><br />
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'''Semantic Technology'''<br><br />
Beth reports: The ontology portal evaluation is still being made. The use cases will support a semantic technology roadmap. The committee is working with the drone cluster and data analytics cluster on use cases that could use semantic technologies. Some new demonstrations of how semantic technologies can help are being planned. Beth Huffer will be at the RDA Plenary representing ESIP and the committee.<br><br />
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'''Partnership'''<br><br />
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'''Finance'''<br><br />
Ready to finalize these process docs, pending final review by 2017 FiCom<br><br />
* Budget Cycle<br><br />
* Committee Budget Request Policy<br><br />
* Special Projects RFP<br><br />
Plan for this year is to establish travel funding policy and reporting requirements for funded travel<br />
Helen reports: The past year the FiCom has been working on new documents outlining budgets and budget cycles. Travel funding is under discussion. Emily noted that the audit came back clean. Christine thanked the staff for the new, nimble accounting capabilities.<br><br />
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'''Governance'''<br><br />
Held first telecon on March 2, [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SUPhgpDDKdDWpsiZNA8R3T2pzDjeNvIx5Mi0-N9vfkw/edit notes here].<br><br />
Elected Vice-Chair (Ana Privette)<br><br />
Set dates and times for next telecons through July<br><br />
Established a [https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1X8_zs49OOMunh3CPpC-Vd--IfQo_8oU4jfWopP3n1K8%2Fedit&v=3 timeline] for creating a new ESIP Policies and Procedures document<br><br />
Next call April 17<br><br />
Mike reported on the activities: looking for a draft of the P&P document by the Summer ESIP meeting. It will be a busy time! Committee chairs will be asked to check their sections of the document. <br><br />
'''Other collaboration area highlights?'''<br><br />
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TABLED: <br><br />
Other Business<br><br />
Program Committee Charter<br><br />
Program Committee 2017 Plan<br><br />
Success stories<br><br><br />
<br />
“How to talk about ESIP” ideas and how to grow ESIP ambassadors<br><br />
How to document ESIP success stories - there is a technical and programmatic effort. As easy as tagging posts with #esipfed or some other hashtag, but then what do we do all the tagged content, where do we consolidate that, is that how we want to proceed with capturing success stories - let's think about this<br />
NOAA has some existing framework resources on this, EarthCube is also using NOAA's work on this.<br></div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Program_Committee&diff=56521Program Committee2017-02-13T22:38:11Z<p>Cwhite: /* Agenda */</p>
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<div>==Executive Committee of the ESIP Federation==<br />
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===Members===<br />
*Emily Law, President<br />
*Christine White, Vice President<br />
*Helen Conover, Chair, Finance <br />
*Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership<br />
*Mike Daniels, Chair, Governance<br />
*Matt Mayernik, Chair, Data Stewardship<br />
*Shelley Olds, Chair, Education<br />
*Rich Signell, Chair, IT & I<br />
*TBD, Chair, Nominations<br />
*Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services<br />
* Beth Huffer, Chair, Semantic Technologies<br />
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===Activities===<br />
====Telecons====<br />
2nd Tuesday of the month at 3 pm Eastern<br />
:Next Telecon, Feb 14, 3 pm EDT<br />
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=====Webinar Information=====<br />
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=====Agenda=====<br />
# Approval of [[Draft Excom Minutes|December Minutes]] <br />
# President's Report<br />
#*Highlights<br />
#* Activities <br />
# Staff Report <br />
# Program Committee Reports <br />
#* Data Stewardship<br />
#* Education<br />
#* IT&I Tech Dive [[Interoperability_and_Technology/Tech_Dive_Webinar_Series | Webinar Series]]<br />
#* Products & Services <br />
#* Semantic Technology<br />
# Other Business<br />
#* Program Committee Charter <br />
#* Program Committee 2017 Plan<br />
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==== Tabled ==== <br />
#* “How to talk about ESIP” ideas and how to grow ESIP ambassadors<br />
#* How to document ESIP success stories - there is a technical and programmatic effort. As easy as tagging posts with #esipfed or some other hashtag, but then what do we do all the tagged content, where do we consolidate that, is that how we want to proceed with capturing success stories - let's think about this<br />
#** NOAA has some existing framework resources on this, EarthCube is also using NOAA's work on this.<br />
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===== Telecon Minutes=====<br />
[[Draft Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
[[Approved Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
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==== 2016 Work Plan ==== <br />
* [[2016ExComPlan| ExCom Work plan]]<br />
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=== Past ExCom Workspaces === <br />
To see prior year work plans and links<br />
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Executive_Committee&oldid=52081 ExCom Home 2015]</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Interoperability_and_Technology/Tech_Dive_Webinar_Series&diff=56383Interoperability and Technology/Tech Dive Webinar Series2017-01-23T17:06:39Z<p>Cwhite: /* 9 March 2017: "Introduction to ESRI Story Maps": Christine White, ESRI */</p>
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<div><br />
= Tech Dive Webinars =<br />
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== 9 March 2017: "Introduction to Esri Story Maps": Christine White, Esri == <br />
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'''Summary''': Today, multi-media communication plays a pivotal role in how an audience experiences, understands, and shares your message. Story Maps bring a narrative to life by weaving maps, text, images, video, and other content into a creative and memorable story. Christine will share several examples of effective Story Maps and then walk through how you can create and configure your own.<br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, March 9, 2017, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': <br />
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Christine is a Technical Advisor and science team member at Esri. She loves using art and technology to communicate about the challenges and opportunities for our future. Christine also serves as the Vice President of ESIP. One of her favorite things about ESIP is how its members offer their unique perspectives (stories) and shared knowledge to collaborate.<br />
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== 9 February 2017: "Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS": Derek Law, Esri == <br />
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'''Summary''': Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS is a pure HTML5/JavaScript-based application that allows you to create your own intuitive, fast, and beautiful web apps without writing a single line of code. The app uses new ArcGIS platform features and modern browser technology to provide both flexible and powerful capabilities such as 3D visualization of data. In addition, developers have an opportunity to create custom tools and themes through the extensibility framework.<br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, February 9, 2017, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': <br />
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Derek Law is an Product Manager at ESRI. He has over 15 years experience with geospatial software and web application development.<br />
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== 19 January 2017: "Introduction to Google Earth Engine": Jess Walker, USGS == <br />
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'''Summary''': Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based geospatial processing platform that unites multiple petabytes of publicly accessible imagery and a massive computational infrastructure with a web-based integrated development environment (IDE). Users can harness the unprecedented combination of data and computing resources to conduct complex geospatial analyses on planetary scales. <br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, January 19, 2017, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': <br />
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Jessica Walker is a postdoctoral researcher with the USGS Western Geographic Science Center in Tucson, AZ. Her research investigates the recovery of post-wildfire landscapes in Alaska and across the southwestern US using time series of remote sensing imagery. <br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/introduction-to-google-earth-engine-jessica-walker-usgs<br />
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== 8 December 2016: "Vector Tile Maps": Sam Matthews, Mapbox == <br />
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'''Summary''': Vector tiles make huge maps fast while offering full design flexibility. They are the vector data equivalent of image tiles for web mapping, applying the strengths of tiling – developed for caching, scaling and serving map imagery rapidly – to vector data. A general overview of vector tiles will be presented. <br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': <br />
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Sam Matthews is a Mapbox engineer focused on improving the speed and reliability of maps. He works with the Mapnik team to generate vector tiles and maintains the upload pipeline behind Mapbox Studio. He is passionate about making open source tools as welcoming as possible through clear docs and zero assumptions.<br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, December 8, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/vector-tile-maps-sam-matthews-mapbox<br />
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== 10 November 2016: "Introducing 3D Tiles": Todd Smith, AGI == <br />
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'''Summary''': 3D Tiles are an open specification for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets. To expand on Cesium’s terrain and imagery streaming, 3D Tiles will be used to stream 3D content, including buildings, trees, point clouds, and vector data. <br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': <br />
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Todd Smith is the Cesium Product Manager, and helps define and manage the Cesium product line. Todd has been with the AGI team from the beginning and has been in the web mapping world for over 15 years. He is a Penn State GIS graduate. <br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, November 10, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed<br />
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== 13 October 2016: "EarthCube Integration and Test Environment (ECITE)": Phil Yang, GMU == <br />
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'''Summary''': An outgrowth of activities of the EarthCube Technology Architecture Committee (TAC)'s Testbed Working Group (TWG), ECITE provides an integration test-bed for technology and science projects for both EarthCube funded projects and community technology demonstrations. ECITE consists of a seamless federated system of scalable and location independent distributed computational resources (nodes) across the US. The hybrid federated system provides a robust set of distributed resources utilizing including both public and private cloud capabilities. <br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': Chaowei Phil Yang is a Professor at George Mason University where he founded the NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center with colleagues from Harvard and UC-Santa Barbara. He advised over 30 graduate students and has placed over 20 geoinformatics professors around the world. His research interest are utilizing spatiotemporal principles to optimize computing infrastructure for geospatial science applications of national and international significance. (http://cpgis.gmu.edu/homepage/)<br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, October 13, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed<br />
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== 8 September 2016: "Apache Open Climate Workbench": Lewis McGibbney and Kyo Lee, NASA JPL/Apache OCW == <br />
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'''Summary''': Apache [http://climate.apache.org Open Climate Workbench] (OCW) is an effort to develop software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of different sources the [http://esgf.llnl.gov/ Earth System Grid Federation], the [http://www.cordex.org/ Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment], the [http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/ U.S. National Climate Assessment] and the [http://www.narccap.ucar.edu/ North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program] and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing data from [http://www.nasa.gov NASA], [http://www.noaa.gov NOAA] and other agencies. The toolkit includes capabilities for rebinning, metrics computation and visualization.<br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': Lewis McGibbney, NASA JPL/Apache OCW; currently a Data Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Lewis works in the Computer Science and Data Intensive Applications Group (398M). He enjoys floating up and down the tide of technologies at the Apache Software Foundation having a real enthusiasm for Web Search and Information Retrieval in particular. You'll find him on community mailing lists including Nutch, Gora, Any23, OODT, Open Climate Workbench, Tika, Usergrid and a number of incubating mailing lists including CommonsRDF, HTrace and Joshua. Lewis is currently a Project Management Committee member and Committer on OCW.<br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': Huikyo Lee, NASA JPL/Apache OCW; currently a Climate Data Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Huikyo has lead development of Regional Climate Model Evaluation System (http://rcmes.jpl.nasa.gov), an open-source software toolkit based on Open Climate Workbench to facilitate systematic evaluation of climate models using observational datasets from a variety of sources.<br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, September 8, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/apache-ocw<br />
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== 11 August 2016: "Community Data Analysis Tools (CDAT)": Charles Doutriaux, LLNL == <br />
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'''Summary''': CDAT is a rich set of visual-data exploration and analysis capabilities well-suited for earth science data analysis problems. It integrates many tools and technology to offer scientist a start-to-finish environment for their work. From reading in various data format, to publication-quality output of their analysis.<br />
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'''Speaker''': Charles Doutriaux is a senior Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory research computer scientist, where he is known for his work in climate analytics, informatics, and management systems supporting model intercomparison projects. He works closely with many international climate scientists and shares in the recognition of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles. He presented his work to many scientific conferences. Aside from everything Python-related, his research interests include climate attribution and detection, visualization, and data analysis. Doutriaux has a master's degree in "Climate and Physico-Chemistry of the Atmosphere" from the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. He’s a member of the AGU and AMS. You can contact him at doutriaux1@llnl.gov.<br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, August 11, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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== 13 July 2016: "The NOAA OneStop Data Discovery and Access Framework Project": Ken Casey, NOAA/NCEI == <br />
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'''Summary''': The OneStop Project is designed to improve NOAA's data discovery and access framework. Focusing on all layers of the framework and not just the user interface, OneStop is addressing data format and metadata best practices, ensuring more data are available through modern web services, working to improve the relevance of dataset searches, and improving both collection-level metadata management and granule level metadata systems to accommodate the wide variety and vast scale of NOAA's data. <br />
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'''Speaker''': Ken Casey is the Deputy Director of the Data Stewardship Division in the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). He leads the OneStop project, is active within NOAA's Big Earth Data Initiative and Big Data Project. Ken serves on a variety of national and international science and data management panels including the US Group on Earth Observations Data Management Working Group and the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Science Team. He co-chairs the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites SST Virtual Constellation and represents NCEI in the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). He holds a PhD in Physical Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island. <br />
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'''Time''': Wednesday, July 13, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
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== 9 June 2016: "Dive into Docker": Kyle Wilcox, Dave Foster and Shane StClair: Axiom Data Science == <br />
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'''Summary''': Docker is an open platform for distributed applications that has taken the world by storm, making it easy to deploy services with complicated dependencies. In this presentation you will learn what Docker is, why it will make your life easier, how to build a container, and how to install containers. <br />
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'''Speaker''': Kyle Wilcox, Dave Foster and Shane StClair are developers at Axiom Data Science. Axiom Data Science works with organizations to improve the long term management, reuse and impact of their scientific data resources. They have built Docker containers for many of the key services used by the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (US-IOOS). <br />
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'''Time''': June 9, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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'''Links''':<br />
* http://www.docker.com/<br />
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=== GoToMeeting Recording ===<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/dive-into-docker-kyle-wilcox-shane-stclair-dave-foster-axiom-data-science<br />
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== 12 May 2016: "Leaflet Time Dimension": Biel Frontera, SOCIB ==<br />
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'''Summary''': Leaflet.TimeDimension is a free, open-source Leaflet.js plugin that enables visualization of spatial data with a temporal dimension. It can manage different types of layers (WMS, GeoJSON, Overlay) and it can be easily extended. It meet some common needs, enabling web maps using observational and forecasting layers generated by a THREDDS server (via ncWMS), animating trajectories of drifters, gliders, follow a simulated oil spill, and other time dependent mapping applications. <br />
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'''Speaker''': Biel Frontera was trained as a mathematician, and has spent most of his career developing software. He is a free software enthusiast and has worked for the last 3 years on data visualization and geospatial software issues for SOCIB, the Baleric Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System. <br />
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'''Time''': May 12, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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'''Links''':<br />
* https://github.com/socib/Leaflet.TimeDimension<br />
* http://apps.socib.es/Leaflet.TimeDimension/examples/<br />
* http://www.socib.eu/<br />
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=== GoToMeeting Recording ===<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
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== 21 Apr 2016: "The New Geoplatform.gov": Tod Dabolt, DOI ==<br />
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'''Summary''': Geoplatform.gov was recently rebuilt from the ground up. Tod will talk about new features of the platform and plans for the future.<br />
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'''Speaker''': Tod Dabolt is the acting Geographic Information Officer for the Department of Interior, and the technical lead on Geoplatform.gov. <br />
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'''Time''': April 21, 2016, (2:00pm ET | 1:00pm CT | 12:00pm MT | 11:00am PT)<br />
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'''Links''':<br />
* http://www.geoplatform.gov<br />
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=== GoToMeeting Recording ===<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
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== 13 Oct 2015: Raj Pandya on AGU's Thriving Earth Exchange and Sharing Solutions ==<br />
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The Thriving Earth Exchange is a network and platform that connects community leaders, sponsors, and scientists and helps them combine science and local knowledge to solve on-the-ground challenges related to natural hazards, natural resources, and climate change. I’ll talk about the general principles on which we are building TEX and describe the basic modules that are part of the TEX. Drawing on the lessons learned from our pilots, I'll talk about how we are developing modules and launching new projects with several partners. I’ll describe a range of projects – from a community monitoring effort in Denver to a Pamiri Mountain project to integrate climate projections into traditional calendars. I’ll introduce our nascent “share” module, and describe our partnership with Amazon Web Services to move prototype community-based solutions to the cloud to enhance their adaptability. And, just to live up to the name, I’ll frame it all around a small rant about the loading-dock model of science and a rave about more participatory approaches.<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
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[[Media:2015-10-13_ESIP_RantRave_RajPandya.pdf | PDF]]<br />
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=== WebEx Recordings ===<br />
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[https://esipfed.webex.com/esipfed/ldr.php?RCID=221cb6674dbff96604009d20e182c637 Streaming] | [https://esipfed.webex.com/esipfed/lsr.php?RCID=0ade6c77a86111ca979174ef312aca30 Download] (The talk starts at about 12:15 into the recording.)<br />
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== 13 Aug 2015: Rich Signell on Catalog-driven Workflows for Science ==<br />
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"Catalog-driven, reproducible workflows for ocean science: Comparing<br />
sea level forecasts along the US Coastline"<br />
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Rich Signell<br />
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Filipe Fernandes<br />
<br />
The USGS Integrated Ocean Observing System (US-IOOS) requires that<br />
data providers use standard web services (OPeNDAP+CF, OGC WMS, OGC<br />
SOS) for distributing model products and insitu observations. The<br />
services are captured in ISO metadata records and searchable via<br />
standard catalog services (OGC CSW).<br />
<br />
This presentation will demonstrate how to use this system in a<br />
reproducible Jupyter Notebook, discovering, accessing and using model<br />
and observed water levels along the US Coastline, using a free python<br />
environment that can be installed on Mac, Windows and Linux in less<br />
than 10 minutes.<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
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[https://speakerdeck.com/rsignell/catalog-driven-reproducible-workflows-for-ocean-science Speaker Deck] | [[Media:2015-08-13 ESIP RantRave.pdf | PDF]]<br />
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=== WebEx Recordings ===<br />
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== 11 June 2015: [http://www.nationaldataservice.org/projects/labs.html NDS Labs], Matt Turk ==<br />
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Matt is a member of the NDS Labs technical advisory committee and will present NDS Labs as a platform for exploring data services -- enabling the separation of data and its representation, and how NDS Labs is functioning as an emerging platform for such separation.<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
[[Media:2015-06-11_ESIP_RantRave_NDSLabs.pdf | PDF]]<br />
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=== WebEx Recordings ===<br />
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= Tech Dive Webinars =<br />
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== 9 March 2017: "Introduction to ESRI Story Maps": Christine White, ESRI == <br />
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'''Summary''': Introduction to ESRI Story Maps, which let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. They make it easy to harness the power of maps and geography to tell your story.<br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, March 9, 2017, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': <br />
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Christine White is a Technical Advisor at ESRI. She has more than 10 years of experience with geospatial application development and management.<br />
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== 9 February 2017: "Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS": Derek Law, Esri == <br />
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'''Summary''': Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS is a pure HTML5/JavaScript-based application that allows you to create your own intuitive, fast, and beautiful web apps without writing a single line of code. The app uses new ArcGIS platform features and modern browser technology to provide both flexible and powerful capabilities such as 3D visualization of data. In addition, developers have an opportunity to create custom tools and themes through the extensibility framework.<br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, February 9, 2017, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': <br />
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Derek Law is an Product Manager at ESRI. He has over 15 years experience with geospatial software and web application development.<br />
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== 19 January 2017: "Introduction to Google Earth Engine": Jess Walker, USGS == <br />
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'''Summary''': Google Earth Engine is a cloud-based geospatial processing platform that unites multiple petabytes of publicly accessible imagery and a massive computational infrastructure with a web-based integrated development environment (IDE). Users can harness the unprecedented combination of data and computing resources to conduct complex geospatial analyses on planetary scales. <br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, January 19, 2017, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': <br />
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Jessica Walker is a postdoctoral researcher with the USGS Western Geographic Science Center in Tucson, AZ. Her research investigates the recovery of post-wildfire landscapes in Alaska and across the southwestern US using time series of remote sensing imagery. <br />
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=== GoToMeeting Recording ===<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/introduction-to-google-earth-engine-jessica-walker-usgs<br />
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== 8 December 2016: "Vector Tile Maps": Sam Matthews, Mapbox == <br />
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'''Summary''': Vector tiles make huge maps fast while offering full design flexibility. They are the vector data equivalent of image tiles for web mapping, applying the strengths of tiling – developed for caching, scaling and serving map imagery rapidly – to vector data. A general overview of vector tiles will be presented. <br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': <br />
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Sam Matthews is a Mapbox engineer focused on improving the speed and reliability of maps. He works with the Mapnik team to generate vector tiles and maintains the upload pipeline behind Mapbox Studio. He is passionate about making open source tools as welcoming as possible through clear docs and zero assumptions.<br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, December 8, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/vector-tile-maps-sam-matthews-mapbox<br />
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== 10 November 2016: "Introducing 3D Tiles": Todd Smith, AGI == <br />
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'''Summary''': 3D Tiles are an open specification for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets. To expand on Cesium’s terrain and imagery streaming, 3D Tiles will be used to stream 3D content, including buildings, trees, point clouds, and vector data. <br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': <br />
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Todd Smith is the Cesium Product Manager, and helps define and manage the Cesium product line. Todd has been with the AGI team from the beginning and has been in the web mapping world for over 15 years. He is a Penn State GIS graduate. <br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, November 10, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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=== GoToMeeting Recording ===<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed<br />
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== 13 October 2016: "EarthCube Integration and Test Environment (ECITE)": Phil Yang, GMU == <br />
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'''Summary''': An outgrowth of activities of the EarthCube Technology Architecture Committee (TAC)'s Testbed Working Group (TWG), ECITE provides an integration test-bed for technology and science projects for both EarthCube funded projects and community technology demonstrations. ECITE consists of a seamless federated system of scalable and location independent distributed computational resources (nodes) across the US. The hybrid federated system provides a robust set of distributed resources utilizing including both public and private cloud capabilities. <br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': Chaowei Phil Yang is a Professor at George Mason University where he founded the NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center with colleagues from Harvard and UC-Santa Barbara. He advised over 30 graduate students and has placed over 20 geoinformatics professors around the world. His research interest are utilizing spatiotemporal principles to optimize computing infrastructure for geospatial science applications of national and international significance. (http://cpgis.gmu.edu/homepage/)<br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, October 13, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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=== GoToMeeting Recording ===<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
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== 8 September 2016: "Apache Open Climate Workbench": Lewis McGibbney and Kyo Lee, NASA JPL/Apache OCW == <br />
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'''Summary''': Apache [http://climate.apache.org Open Climate Workbench] (OCW) is an effort to develop software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of different sources the [http://esgf.llnl.gov/ Earth System Grid Federation], the [http://www.cordex.org/ Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment], the [http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/ U.S. National Climate Assessment] and the [http://www.narccap.ucar.edu/ North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program] and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing data from [http://www.nasa.gov NASA], [http://www.noaa.gov NOAA] and other agencies. The toolkit includes capabilities for rebinning, metrics computation and visualization.<br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': Lewis McGibbney, NASA JPL/Apache OCW; currently a Data Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Lewis works in the Computer Science and Data Intensive Applications Group (398M). He enjoys floating up and down the tide of technologies at the Apache Software Foundation having a real enthusiasm for Web Search and Information Retrieval in particular. You'll find him on community mailing lists including Nutch, Gora, Any23, OODT, Open Climate Workbench, Tika, Usergrid and a number of incubating mailing lists including CommonsRDF, HTrace and Joshua. Lewis is currently a Project Management Committee member and Committer on OCW.<br />
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'''Speaker(s)''': Huikyo Lee, NASA JPL/Apache OCW; currently a Climate Data Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Huikyo has lead development of Regional Climate Model Evaluation System (http://rcmes.jpl.nasa.gov), an open-source software toolkit based on Open Climate Workbench to facilitate systematic evaluation of climate models using observational datasets from a variety of sources.<br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, September 8, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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=== GoToMeeting Recording ===<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/apache-ocw<br />
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== 11 August 2016: "Community Data Analysis Tools (CDAT)": Charles Doutriaux, LLNL == <br />
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'''Summary''': CDAT is a rich set of visual-data exploration and analysis capabilities well-suited for earth science data analysis problems. It integrates many tools and technology to offer scientist a start-to-finish environment for their work. From reading in various data format, to publication-quality output of their analysis.<br />
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'''Speaker''': Charles Doutriaux is a senior Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory research computer scientist, where he is known for his work in climate analytics, informatics, and management systems supporting model intercomparison projects. He works closely with many international climate scientists and shares in the recognition of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles. He presented his work to many scientific conferences. Aside from everything Python-related, his research interests include climate attribution and detection, visualization, and data analysis. Doutriaux has a master's degree in "Climate and Physico-Chemistry of the Atmosphere" from the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. He’s a member of the AGU and AMS. You can contact him at doutriaux1@llnl.gov.<br />
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'''Time''': Thursday, August 11, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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== 13 July 2016: "The NOAA OneStop Data Discovery and Access Framework Project": Ken Casey, NOAA/NCEI == <br />
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'''Summary''': The OneStop Project is designed to improve NOAA's data discovery and access framework. Focusing on all layers of the framework and not just the user interface, OneStop is addressing data format and metadata best practices, ensuring more data are available through modern web services, working to improve the relevance of dataset searches, and improving both collection-level metadata management and granule level metadata systems to accommodate the wide variety and vast scale of NOAA's data. <br />
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'''Speaker''': Ken Casey is the Deputy Director of the Data Stewardship Division in the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). He leads the OneStop project, is active within NOAA's Big Earth Data Initiative and Big Data Project. Ken serves on a variety of national and international science and data management panels including the US Group on Earth Observations Data Management Working Group and the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Science Team. He co-chairs the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites SST Virtual Constellation and represents NCEI in the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). He holds a PhD in Physical Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island. <br />
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'''Time''': Wednesday, July 13, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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=== GoToMeeting Recording ===<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/noaa-one-stop-ken-casey-ncei<br />
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== 9 June 2016: "Dive into Docker": Kyle Wilcox, Dave Foster and Shane StClair: Axiom Data Science == <br />
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'''Summary''': Docker is an open platform for distributed applications that has taken the world by storm, making it easy to deploy services with complicated dependencies. In this presentation you will learn what Docker is, why it will make your life easier, how to build a container, and how to install containers. <br />
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'''Speaker''': Kyle Wilcox, Dave Foster and Shane StClair are developers at Axiom Data Science. Axiom Data Science works with organizations to improve the long term management, reuse and impact of their scientific data resources. They have built Docker containers for many of the key services used by the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (US-IOOS). <br />
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'''Time''': June 9, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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* http://www.docker.com/<br />
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=== GoToMeeting Recording ===<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
https://speakerdeck.com/esipfed/dive-into-docker-kyle-wilcox-shane-stclair-dave-foster-axiom-data-science<br />
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== 12 May 2016: "Leaflet Time Dimension": Biel Frontera, SOCIB ==<br />
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'''Summary''': Leaflet.TimeDimension is a free, open-source Leaflet.js plugin that enables visualization of spatial data with a temporal dimension. It can manage different types of layers (WMS, GeoJSON, Overlay) and it can be easily extended. It meet some common needs, enabling web maps using observational and forecasting layers generated by a THREDDS server (via ncWMS), animating trajectories of drifters, gliders, follow a simulated oil spill, and other time dependent mapping applications. <br />
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'''Speaker''': Biel Frontera was trained as a mathematician, and has spent most of his career developing software. He is a free software enthusiast and has worked for the last 3 years on data visualization and geospatial software issues for SOCIB, the Baleric Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System. <br />
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'''Time''': May 12, 2016, (3:00pm ET | 2:00pm CT | 1:00pm MT | 12:00am PT)<br />
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* https://github.com/socib/Leaflet.TimeDimension<br />
* http://apps.socib.es/Leaflet.TimeDimension/examples/<br />
* http://www.socib.eu/<br />
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=== GoToMeeting Recording ===<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
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== 21 Apr 2016: "The New Geoplatform.gov": Tod Dabolt, DOI ==<br />
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'''Summary''': Geoplatform.gov was recently rebuilt from the ground up. Tod will talk about new features of the platform and plans for the future.<br />
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'''Speaker''': Tod Dabolt is the acting Geographic Information Officer for the Department of Interior, and the technical lead on Geoplatform.gov. <br />
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'''Time''': April 21, 2016, (2:00pm ET | 1:00pm CT | 12:00pm MT | 11:00am PT)<br />
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'''Links''':<br />
* http://www.geoplatform.gov<br />
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=== GoToMeeting Recording ===<br />
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== 13 Oct 2015: Raj Pandya on AGU's Thriving Earth Exchange and Sharing Solutions ==<br />
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The Thriving Earth Exchange is a network and platform that connects community leaders, sponsors, and scientists and helps them combine science and local knowledge to solve on-the-ground challenges related to natural hazards, natural resources, and climate change. I’ll talk about the general principles on which we are building TEX and describe the basic modules that are part of the TEX. Drawing on the lessons learned from our pilots, I'll talk about how we are developing modules and launching new projects with several partners. I’ll describe a range of projects – from a community monitoring effort in Denver to a Pamiri Mountain project to integrate climate projections into traditional calendars. I’ll introduce our nascent “share” module, and describe our partnership with Amazon Web Services to move prototype community-based solutions to the cloud to enhance their adaptability. And, just to live up to the name, I’ll frame it all around a small rant about the loading-dock model of science and a rave about more participatory approaches.<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
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[[Media:2015-10-13_ESIP_RantRave_RajPandya.pdf | PDF]]<br />
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=== WebEx Recordings ===<br />
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[https://esipfed.webex.com/esipfed/ldr.php?RCID=221cb6674dbff96604009d20e182c637 Streaming] | [https://esipfed.webex.com/esipfed/lsr.php?RCID=0ade6c77a86111ca979174ef312aca30 Download] (The talk starts at about 12:15 into the recording.)<br />
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== 13 Aug 2015: Rich Signell on Catalog-driven Workflows for Science ==<br />
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"Catalog-driven, reproducible workflows for ocean science: Comparing<br />
sea level forecasts along the US Coastline"<br />
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Rich Signell<br />
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Filipe Fernandes<br />
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The USGS Integrated Ocean Observing System (US-IOOS) requires that<br />
data providers use standard web services (OPeNDAP+CF, OGC WMS, OGC<br />
SOS) for distributing model products and insitu observations. The<br />
services are captured in ISO metadata records and searchable via<br />
standard catalog services (OGC CSW).<br />
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This presentation will demonstrate how to use this system in a<br />
reproducible Jupyter Notebook, discovering, accessing and using model<br />
and observed water levels along the US Coastline, using a free python<br />
environment that can be installed on Mac, Windows and Linux in less<br />
than 10 minutes.<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
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[https://speakerdeck.com/rsignell/catalog-driven-reproducible-workflows-for-ocean-science Speaker Deck] | [[Media:2015-08-13 ESIP RantRave.pdf | PDF]]<br />
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=== WebEx Recordings ===<br />
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[https://esipfed.webex.com/esipfed/ldr.php?RCID=c3ece329915705e77f48c6da0ecc2204 Streaming] | [https://esipfed.webex.com/esipfed/lsr.php?RCID=ffcf193fd739d057d72217cdd2ff8f3e Download] (The talk starts at about 12:30 into the recording.)<br />
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== 11 June 2015: [http://www.nationaldataservice.org/projects/labs.html NDS Labs], Matt Turk ==<br />
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Matt is a member of the NDS Labs technical advisory committee and will present NDS Labs as a platform for exploring data services -- enabling the separation of data and its representation, and how NDS Labs is functioning as an emerging platform for such separation.<br />
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=== Slides ===<br />
[[Media:2015-06-11_ESIP_RantRave_NDSLabs.pdf | PDF]]<br />
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=== WebEx Recordings ===<br />
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[https://esipfed.webex.com/esipfed/ldr.php?RCID=dd5f5320aed8be082110abbf107b27db Streaming] | [https://esipfed.webex.com/esipfed/lsr.php?RCID=dc5fba6bcc82a51951041cfcea8e9a98 Download] (The talk starts at about 21:00 into the recording.)</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=2016_AGU&diff=560752016 AGU2016-12-11T18:44:30Z<p>Cwhite: /* ESSI-ential Booths */</p>
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<div>==ESSI-entials for the 2016 Fall Meeting - Dec 11-16==<br />
The AGU ESSI program leads have done a great job of planning out this coming week. Please edit this page to add/promote your work, make announcements, look for dinner pals etc here. If you are convening a poster session that will have a flash mob component - please add that to this page under Notes for the day. Tweet with #ESSI and #AGU16. <br />
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===Dailly Themes === <br />
New this year, each day has a daily theme. Sessions and town halls were coordinated to try to emphasize these threads. <br />
* Monday - Emerging Technologies<br />
* Tuesday - Building Blocks <br />
* Wednesday - Collaboration <br />
* Thursday - Data Life Cycle<br />
* Friday - Tools & Viz<br />
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===Notes by the Day ===<br />
* Please add your flash mob poster sessions here and we will promote via twitter. <br />
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=== ESSI Schedule === <br />
If you would like to add additional sessions or content for a specific session, please edit this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DhG0TaMDNmWTX31Cz7Tfik-69LmIJtXmpZmqDKPBePQ/edit?usp=sharing <br />
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=== Data Fair === <br />
For all details: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/agu-data-fair/<br />
* Monday - Rebecca Moore, 6:15-7:15 <br />
** Tweet Qs with #AGUDataFair<br />
* Tuesday - Data Skills, 12:30-1:30 <br />
** Tweet Qs with #AGUDataSkills<br />
* Wednesday - Data Management, 12:30-1:30<br />
** Tweet Qs with #AGUDataMgmt<br />
* Thursday - Reproducible Science, 12:30-1:30 <br />
** Tweet Qs with #AGUReproducibility<br />
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=== COPDESS Update ===<br />
From Brooks Hanson, AGU: <br />
Some updates from the Coalition on Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Science (COPDESS). First-we are updating our mailing list based on both the first and second meetings. If you would like to be off this list, just let me know. Similarly if there are others from your organization (or elsewhere) that we should add given changes in leadership, etc, send an email.<br />
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Secondly: we won’t be having a COPDESS meeting at AGU this year (there is a reserved editors’ roundtable meeting in events, but please instead attend an isamples town hall that evening). A main reason is that there’s now so much going on with respect to open data, reproducibility, ethics, and more that it was becoming very difficult to find time among competing events. Some sessions of interest are here: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/agu-data-fair/<br />
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Specifically, there is a featured talk around open data from Rebecca Moore, the Director of Google Earth and Earth Engine, on Monday evening at 615 PM. This will be followed by three panel discussions over lunch Tuesday-Thursday on data skills, data management plans, and reproducibility. These are tied to various sessions in the program as well around best practices, data skills, and reproducibility. Look for these under the “data swirl.”<br />
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Directory of Repositories. AGU Publications is now linking to the Directory as a primary resource for authors, and expecting that it will grow further as a result. We hope that other publishers will also do this (and thus that more repositories will provide information). The directory is here: https://copdessdirectory.osf.io/ If you would like to add your repository, please contact Brooks Hanson or Shelley Stall (sstall@agu.org). We have imported metadata from re3data and need to activate an account so you can link to this record.<br />
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We are in discussions with the Center for Open Science and Re3data and synchronizing the COPDESS directory with the Re3data metadata records for repositories. This will continue to be developed over the next few months.<br />
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Training: We are updating the “best practices” part of the COPDESS directory with additional information. We’ve recently posted a slide deck on best practices in publications for citing and presenting data—related to a session at the Fall Meeting where this will be showcased by a series of talks from leading researchers across diverse fields: IN23F: Linking Earth Systems Data to Better Address Societal Challenges: A View of the Earth from the Interior to the Edge of Space Supported by Data to Bring Enhanced Understanding-- Tuesday, 13 December 2016 13:40 - 15:40 Moscone West – 2002 (see the “best practices” link on www.copdess.org )<br />
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These accompany other best practices for publishers and some additional slide decks from recent presentations. We’re also organizing a session at the SSP conference next year on these topics and sessions at the joint JPGU-AGU meeting.<br />
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See also two recent items in Science this week: First they have an editorial expression of concern over lost data on a recent paper—one of the first such statements I’ve seen, and one highlighting the need for data to be in trusted and domain repositories:<br />
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1242.1<br />
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also, a paper on software reproducibility is out in the same issue—this was a result of an Arnold/AAAS workshop led by Victoria Stodden and Marcia McNutt. It’s in part aspirational but aligned with other broader efforts around software availability and citation and provides several steps to reach the aspirations:<br />
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1240<br />
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=== ESSI-ential Booths === <br />
[http://events.jspargo.com/AGU16/Public/eventmap.aspx?ID=59138&shmode=E&sortMenu=104003 Exhibit Hall Map]<br />
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* Belmont Forum - 225<br />
* Belmont Forum e-Infrastructure - 505<br />
* CUAHSI -422<br />
* DataOne & DataCite - 304<br />
* EarthCube - 509 <br />
* ESIP - 247<br />
* Esri - 623<br />
* IEDA - 244<br />
* IRIS - 423<br />
* NASA - 535<br />
* NOAA - 1105<br />
* NSF - 405<br />
* OOI - 245<br />
* Schmidt Ocean Institute - 223<br />
* UNAVCO - 523<br />
* USGS - 241<br />
* Yours? Edit & add<br />
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Exhibit Hours<br />
* Monday: 18:00-20:00 (Reception) <br />
* Tuesday: 09:30-17:00 <br />
* Wednesday: 09:30-17:00 <br />
* Thursday: 09:30-17:00 <br />
* Friday: 09:30-13:30</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Program_Committee&diff=55607Program Committee2016-11-08T22:03:46Z<p>Cwhite: /* Agenda */</p>
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<div>==Executive Committee of the ESIP Federation==<br />
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===Members===<br />
*Emily Law, President<br />
*Christine White, Vice President<br />
*Bill Teng, Chair, Finance <br />
*Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership<br />
*Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B<br />
*Bob Arko, Type I Rep<br />
*Sky Bristol, Type II Rep<br />
*Ted Habermann, Type III Rep<br />
*Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship<br />
*LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education<br />
*Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I<br />
*Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations<br />
*Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services<br />
* Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies<br />
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===Activities===<br />
====Telecons====<br />
2nd Tuesday of the month at 3 pm Eastern<br />
:Next Telecon, November 8, 3 pm EDT<br />
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=====Webinar Information=====<br />
Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.<br />
https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/411606165<br />
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You can also dial in using your phone.<br />
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United States: +1 (312) 757-3121<br />
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Access Code: 411-606-165<br />
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=====Agenda=====<br />
# Approval of [[Draft Excom Minutes|October Minutes]] <br />
# President's Report<br />
#*Highlights<br />
#**Data Driven Decision Making (3DM) 2016 Workshop: ESIP hosted and organized (along with the All Hazards Consortium) the workshop that was held at the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) on October 27. ESIP had a strong presence including Erin, who gave a presentation and introduction of ESIP, plus other EISP members (Dave Jones, Brian Wee, Sang-Ho Yun, Bob Chen and Emily). The workshop engaged the industry and government planning and operations professionals, federal agencies, and science/research organizations to gain a common understanding and agree upon a joint short-term and long-term approach to identifying and putting to use critical datasets that can be applied in specific operational use cases that address restoration of critical infrastructure during and post-disasters in order to improve operational situational awareness and to enhance decision making. The workshop’s objectives, agenda and list of participants can be found on [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B_2czh6FTo34Ql8ydHViTEx3N0E here].<br />
#**GEO XIII Plenary: Erin, Kathy (ESIP rep for GEO Program Board), and Emily are attending the meeting being held in St.Petersburg, Russia during the week of November 7. Contributions made by ESIP community were highlighted and submitted to the GEO Executive Committee. Thanks to Erin for preparing that. [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/9554 Statement]<br />
# Staff Report <br />
#* Erin also participated and spoke at the 3DM Workshop that was collaboratively hosted by ESIP and the All Hazards Consortium ([http://www.ahcusa.org/data-driven-decision-making-3dm.html Slides]). Working on NASA proposal renewal, preparing for FY16 scheduled audit, series of three town halls at AGU that are part of Data Fair and [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i3H169sXh4ibDUtjCSbAPUCyV-NNOoDEmjQejgoKWK4/edit GEO Plenary (ESIP's Statement, Emily/Erin participating this week)]. <br />
#* Annie B. has been working to wrap up AIST evaluations. All 5 teams have submitted final reports, which will go to PIs by the end of the week. Draft meeting schedule will also be posted by the end of the week. <br />
#* Bruce back tomorrow from Japan. Ignite@AGU call for speakers is out. We will also start preparing for booth activities at ESIP booth in Expo. <br />
# Committee Reports <br />
#* C&B <br />
#** The 30-day comment period concluded on November 6 for the resolution to merge. <br />
#** The vote opened on Nov. 7. <br />
#* Finance<br />
#** Review of FY17 budget proposals - 2 completed; 2 in progress.<br />
#** Revision of document on budget proposal policy - ~completed, pending clarification on language re: Ficom and Board roles. <br />
#* Partnership <br />
#** The committee reviewed and recommended four new applications for membership.<br />
#** Danie is working with Christine on an ESIP member success story program, it's structure and process. On our November ExCom call, group agreed to extend Partner Award deadline<br />
#* Data Stewardship<br />
#** The Data Management Training modules were released, with a walk-through during our Oct. meeting. <br />
#** We also had a speaker on Data Visualization during our October meeting. <br />
#** Notes from our Oct. meeting: <br />
#** http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/LifeCycle/Preservation_Forum/TeleconNotes/2016-10-17meetingnotes<br />
#* Education<br />
#**The Education Committee has posted the [[ESIP_Drone_Activities| alpha version of its e-book of drone activities]]. Shelley Olds has developed a pair of surveys we will use to gather feedback on the activities. Based on feedback we receive, we'll identify a consistent activity format and choose which activities to include in the next version. After a second review cycle, we'll submit our content to a graphic designer.<br />
#**Margaret Mooney presented the e-book content in a session at the Midwest Regional meeting of the National Science Teachers Association in Minneapolis on October 28. Twenty-nine enthusiastic participants showed up (some even took test flights!) for her late Friday afternoon session. The activities were well received and several participants indicated they would try them with students.<br />
#* IT&I<br />
#** Tech Dive [[Interoperability_and_Technology/Tech_Dive_Webinar_Series | Webinar Series]]<br />
#*** November 10, 2016: [[Interoperability_and_Technology/Tech_Dive_Webinar_Series#10_November_2016:_.22Introducing_3D_Tiles.22:_Matt_Amato.2C_Todd_Smith.2C_AGI | "Introducing 3D Tiles": Matt Amato, Todd Smith AGI]]<br />
#* Nominations - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o394LekS6RHr0OJcsjs7fWzUhoQcCUdhSIRiZe52GBI/edit Job Description Doc]<br />
#** Nominations for most elected positions are posted on the [[Nomination_Committee/2017_Nominations_and_Ballot |wiki]]; we're finalizing the at-large board nominations and hope to have that complete in the next two weeks. Candidate statements can be posted through the wiki.<br />
#* Products & Services <br />
#** No October telecon. October RFP proposals are in review and planning for the spring projects to report out during the November call. <br />
#* Semantic Technology<br />
#** Planning for semantics symposium the day before the winter ESIP meeting<br />
#* Visioneers<br />
#** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JuyT2s2TJ3Swg9nuMTWCaXeQKhF5tBCeeqciPOn7-Os/edit Telecon] <br />
# Type Rep Reports<br />
#* Type I: <br />
#* Type II<br />
#* Type III<br />
# Other Business<br />
#* [http://doodle.com/poll/bny3d96d5ydz7c49 December ExCom Poll] <br />
#* Software Guidelines ([https://esipfed.github.io/Software-Assessment-Guidelines/guidelines.html Draft]) - December Excom <br />
#* Committee Purpose (Reference: [https://github.com/ESIPFed/Governance/blob/master/Bylaws.md Bylaws])<br />
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==== Tabled ==== <br />
#* “How to talk about ESIP” ideas and how to grow ESIP ambassadors<br />
#* How to document ESIP success stories - there is a technical and programmatic effort. As easy as tagging posts with #esipfed or some other hashtag, but then what do we do all the tagged content, where do we consolidate that, is that how we want to proceed with capturing success stories - let's think about this<br />
#** NOAA has some existing framework resources on this, EarthCube is also using NOAA's work on this.<br />
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===== Telecon Minutes=====<br />
[[Draft Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
[[Approved Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
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==== 2016 Work Plan ==== <br />
* [[2016ExComPlan| ExCom Work plan]]<br />
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=== Past ExCom Workspaces === <br />
To see prior year work plans and links<br />
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Executive_Committee&oldid=52081 ExCom Home 2015]</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=CEW_VP_Statement&diff=55552CEW VP Statement2016-11-07T21:43:04Z<p>Cwhite: /* Christine White */</p>
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<div>''Back to [[Nomination Committee/2017 Nominations and Ballot|2017 Nominations and Ballot]]''<br />
===Christine White===<br />
Serving the past year as your Vice President has been an honor, and I hope to continue in 2017 in this role with your support.<br />
<br />
The ESIP Vice President supports the ESIP President, serves on the ESIP Board, and undertakes other activities as appropriate. This past year I worked closely with the ESIP Leadership and Staff as we carried out essential envisioning, revising, and coordination that interpreted ESIP's 19 year history to develop a near and long term strategy for the future.<br />
<br />
This process involved understanding the findings from an external review ESIP commissioned, developing and documenting governance changes to simplify the organization's structure and empower its membership, and determining how to best support and encourage the unique community aspects of ESIP that make it the dynamic and valuable organization that it is. Every ESIP Leadership person, Board Member, and staffperson contributed - and many of you in our community also - such that in 2017 ESIP will be well positioned to continue in our Strategic direction, and also do new things we can't yet even imagine.<br />
<br />
Besides working on these foundational changes I also had the opportunity to serve ESIP in other ways. I got to represent ESIP to our DC-based sponsors with Emily and Erin back in April, to help vet Testbed project proposals through the Testbed Configuration Board, to support the student fellow selection process the past two years, to support many of the Summer meeting's creative aspects such as content in part of the plenaries, emcee-ing and supporting lightning talks and Research as Art, and participating in International Data Week. My near term emphases for Winter 2017 are developing processes to capture and share ESIP success stories, and also how to grow leadership resources within ESIP and also the Earth Science community.<br />
<br />
"ESIP makes data matter by making people matter." <br />
<br />
====My Career Life, and ESIP====<br />
I bring the best of my past experience to this opportunity - in the geospatial software and data world, I've worked as a consultant, project manager, product manager, and now a technical advisor at Esri. In these roles, ''teamwork'' has been by far the most important contributor to success - to see solutions that aren't the obvious ones, develop plans and asking for critique, and continuously improving and innovating knowledge collectively. I share what I learn from my ESIP colleagues with my Esri colleagues and vice versa - the idea is to build connections so scientists can do their important research and communicate it with software supporting them the best way.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=CEW_VP_Statement&diff=55551CEW VP Statement2016-11-07T21:41:56Z<p>Cwhite: /* Christine White, Technical Advisor, Esri */</p>
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<div>''Back to [[Nomination Committee/2017 Nominations and Ballot|2017 Nominations and Ballot]]''<br />
===Christine White===<br />
Serving the past year as your Vice President has been an honor, and I hope to continue in 2017 in this role with your support.<br />
<br />
The ESIP Vice President supports the ESIP President, serves on the ESIP Board, and undertakes other activities as appropriate. This past year I worked closely with the ESIP Leadership and Staff as we carried out essential envisioning, revising, and coordination that interpreted ESIP's 19 year history to develop a near and long term strategy for the future.<br />
<br />
This process involved understanding the findings from an external review ESIP commissioned, developing and documenting governance changes to simplify the organization's structure and empower its membership, and determining how to best support and encourage the unique community aspects of ESIP that make it the dynamic and valuable organization that it is. Every ESIP Leadership person, Board Member, and staffperson contributed - and many of you in our community also - such that in 2017 ESIP will be well positioned to continue in our Strategic direction, and also do new things we can't yet even imagine.<br />
<br />
Besides working on these foundational changes I also had the opportunity to serve ESIP in other ways. I got to represent ESIP to our DC-based sponsors with Emily and Erin back in April, to help vet Testbed project proposals through the Testbed Configuration Board, to support the student fellow selection process the past two years, to support many of the Summer meeting's creative aspects such as content in part of the plenaries, emcee-ing and supporting lightning talks and Research as Art, and participating in International Data Week. My near term emphases for Winter 2017 are developing processes to capture and share ESIP success stories, and also how to grow leadership resources within ESIP and also the Earth Science community.<br />
<br />
"ESIP makes data matter by making people matter." <br />
<br />
====My Career Life, and ESIP====<br />
I bring the best of my past experience to this opportunity - in the geospatial software and data world, I've worked as a consultant, project manager, product manager, and now a technical advisor. In these roles, ''teamwork'' has been by far the most important contributor to success - to see solutions that aren't the obvious ones, develop plans and asking for critique, and continuously improving and innovating knowledge collectively. I share what I learn from my ESIP colleagues with my Esri colleagues and vice versa - the idea is to build connections so scientists can do their important research and communicate it with software supporting them the best way.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=CEW_VP_Statement&diff=55550CEW VP Statement2016-11-07T21:29:19Z<p>Cwhite: /* Christine White, Technical Advisor, Esri */</p>
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<div>''Back to [[Nomination Committee/2017 Nominations and Ballot|2017 Nominations and Ballot]]''<br />
===Christine White, Technical Advisor, Esri===<br />
Serving the past year as your Vice President has been an honor, and I hope to continue in 2017 in this role with your support.<br />
<br />
The ESIP Vice President supports the ESIP President, serves on the ESIP Board, and undertakes other activities as appropriate. This past year I worked closely with the ESIP Leadership and Staff as we carried out essential envisioning, revising, and coordination that interpreted ESIP's 19 year history to develop a near and long term strategy for the future.<br />
<br />
This process involved understanding the findings from an external review ESIP commissioned, developing and documenting governance changes to simplify the organization's structure and empower its membership, and determining how to best support and encourage the unique community aspects of ESIP that make it the dynamic and valuable organization that it is. Every ESIP Leadership person, Board Member, and staffperson contributed - and many of you in our community also - such that in 2017 ESIP will be well positioned to continue in our Strategic direction, and also do new things we can't yet even imagine.<br />
<br />
Besides working on these foundational changes I also had the opportunity to serve ESIP in other ways. I got to represent ESIP to our DC-based sponsors with Emily and Erin back in April, to help vet Testbed project proposals through the Testbed Configuration Board, to support the student fellow selection process the past two years, to support many of the Summer meeting's creative aspects such as content in part of the plenaries, emcee-ing and supporting lightning talks and Research as Art, and participating in International Data Week. My near term emphases for Winter 2017 are developing processes to capture and share ESIP success stories, and also how to grow leadership resources within ESIP and also the Earth Science community.<br />
<br />
"ESIP makes data matter by making people matter." <br />
<br />
====My Career Life, and ESIP====<br />
I bring the best of my past experience to this opportunity - in the geospatial software and data world, I've worked as a consultant, project manager, product manager, and now a technical advisor. In these roles, ''teamwork'' has been by far the most important contributor to success - to see solutions that aren't the obvious ones, develop plans and asking for critique, and continuously improving and innovating knowledge collectively. I share what I learn from my ESIP colleagues with my Esri colleagues and vice versa - the idea is to build connections so scientists can do their important research and communicate it with software supporting them the best way.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=CEW_VP_Statement&diff=55549CEW VP Statement2016-11-07T21:25:07Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>''Back to [[Nomination Committee/2017 Nominations and Ballot|2017 Nominations and Ballot]]''<br />
===Christine White, Technical Advisor, Esri===<br />
Serving the past year as your Vice President has been an honor, and I hope to continue in 2017 in this role with your support.<br />
<br />
The ESIP Vice President supports the ESIP President, serves on the ESIP Board, and undertakes other activities as appropriate. This past year I worked closely with the ESIP Leadership and Staff as we carried out essential envisioning, revising, and coordination that interpreted ESIP's 19 year history to develop a near and long term strategy for the future.<br />
<br />
This process involved understanding the findings from an external review ESIP commissioned, developing and documenting governance changes to simplify the organization's structure and empower its membership, and determining how to best support and encourage the unique community aspects of ESIP that make it the dynamic and valuable organization that it is. Every ESIP Leadership person, Board Member, and staffperson contributed - and many of you in our community also - such that in 2017 ESIP will be well positioned to continue in our Strategic direction, and also do great things we can't yet even imagine.<br />
<br />
Besides working on these foundational changes I also had the opportunity to serve ESIP in other ways. I got to represent ESIP to our DC-based sponsors with Emily and Erin back in April, to help vet Testbed project proposals through the Testbed Configuration Board, to support the student fellow selection process the past two years, to support many of the Summer meeting's creative aspects such as content in part of the plenaries, emcee-ing and supporting lightning talks and Research as Art, and participating in International Data Week. My near term emphases for Winter 2017 are developing processes to capture and share ESIP success stories, and also how to grow leadership resources within ESIP and also the Earth Science community.<br />
<br />
"ESIP makes data matter by making people matter." <br />
<br />
====My Career Life, and ESIP====<br />
I bring the best of my past experience to this opportunity - in the geospatial software and data world, I've worked as a consultant, project manager, product manager, and now a technical advisor. In these roles, ''teamwork'' has been by far the most important contributor to success - to see solutions that aren't the obvious ones, develop plans and asking for critique, and continuously improving and innovating knowledge collectively. I share what I learn from my ESIP colleagues with my Esri colleagues and vice versa - the idea is to build connections so scientists can do their important research and communicate it with software supporting them the best way.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Nomination_Committee/2017_Nominations_and_Ballot&diff=55543Nomination Committee/2017 Nominations and Ballot2016-11-07T18:58:37Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>Each year, the ESIP Federation conducts elections of its officers, committee chairs and Administrative Committee members. We are at the time of year when we begin accepting nominations for the following positions which are elected Federation-wide: (multiple nominees for a position are welcome and encouraged)<br />
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Nominations coming from the Nominating Committee are indicated by "NomCom" and do not require a second. Incumbents in a position are indicated by (I) following their name. Nominations will be accepted through '''October 31, 2016'''. Send nominations (self-nomination is encouraged) to nominations@esipfed.org. <br />
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Candidates are invited to submit statements about their candidacy to be posted on this site.<br />
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Updated position descriptions are available [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o394LekS6RHr0OJcsjs7fWzUhoQcCUdhSIRiZe52GBI/edit here]. Note that with the changing relationship currently up for vote there will be some shift in duties (more information [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BNVvAjdVTSk0qt123J4fQkCzZY9KehSdVO6XNqUCqfI/edit#slide=id.g17fb2fb0d5_0_0 here]).<br />
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(Click on each Position to view its description and Committee's role)<br />
{| width="800" border="1"<br />
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|- <br />
! width="40%" scope="col" | POSITION<br />
! width="30%" scope="col" | NOMINEE<br />
! width="30%" scope="col" | CANDIDATE STATEMENT<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[President]]</p> <br />
| Emily Law (I)<br />
| [[EL Statement | Emily Law Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Vice President]]</p> <br />
| Christine White (I)<br />
| [[CEW_VP_Statement | Christine White Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[C&B Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Governance Committee Chair]]</p> <br />
| Robert Downs<br><br />
Mike Daniels<br />
| [[RD Statement | Robert Downs Statement]]<br><br />
[[MD Statement | Mike Daniels Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan=1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[FiCom Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Finance and Appropriations Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Helen Conover<br />
| [[HC Statement | Helen Conover Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Partnership Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Partnership Committee Chair]]</p> <br />
| Danie Kinkade (I)<br />
| [[DK Statement | Danie Kinkade Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Data Stewardship Chair| Data Stewardship Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Matthew Mayernick<br> <br />
H.K. Ramapriyan<br><br />
Sudhir Shrestha<br />
| [[MM Statement | Matt Mayernick Statement]]<br><br />
[[Rama Statement | H.K. Ramapriyan Statement]]<br><br />
[[SS Statement | Sudhir Shresta Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Ed Chair| Education Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Shelley Olds<br />
| [[SO Statement | Shelley Olds Statement]]<br><br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[IT&I Chair| Information Technology & Interoperability Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Rich Signell<br />
| [[RS Statement | Rich Signell Statement]]<br><br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[P&S Chair| Products and Services Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Soren Scott (I)<br />
| [[Soren Statement | Soren Scott Statement]]<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[FES Board| At Large Board Member (3 positions)]]</p><br />
| Ruth Duerr<br><br />
Mark Parsons<br><br />
Tracey Pilone<br><br />
| [[RD Statement | Ruth Duerr Statement]]<br><br />
[[MP Statement | Mark Parsons Statement]]<br><br />
[[TP Statement | Tracey Pilone Statement]]<br><br />
|}<br />
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Nominations will be accepted through '''October 31, 2016'''. Send nominations (self-nomination is encouraged) to nominations@esipfed.org. Candidates are invited to submit statements about their candidacy to be posted on this site. <br />
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In addition, each ESIP Type elects representatives to each Administrative Committee. The current ESIP Type Representatives will be contacting their respective caucuses to begin accepting nominations for representatives to the following Committees:<br />
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::'''Executive Committee (ESIP Type Representative)'''<br />
::'''Constitution and Bylaws Committee'''<br />
::'''Finance and Appropriations Committee'''<br />
::'''Partnership Committee'''<br />
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<hr><br />
:The President, Vice-President, Committee Chairs and Type Representatives serve on the ESIP Federation Executive Committee. <br />
:The ESIP assembly votes on at-large ESIP representatives to serve on the Board of the Foundation for Earth Science.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Program_Committee&diff=54915Program Committee2016-10-11T16:03:37Z<p>Cwhite: /* Agenda */</p>
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<div>==Executive Committee of the ESIP Federation==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
*Emily Law, President<br />
*Christine White, Vice President<br />
*Bill Teng, Chair, Finance <br />
*Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership<br />
*Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B<br />
*Bob Arko, Type I Rep<br />
*Sky Bristol, Type II Rep<br />
*Ted Habermann, Type III Rep<br />
*Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship<br />
*LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education<br />
*Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I<br />
*Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations<br />
*Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services<br />
* Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies<br />
<br />
===Activities===<br />
====Telecons====<br />
2nd Tuesday of the month at 3 pm Eastern<br />
:Next Telecon, October 10, 3 pm EDT<br />
<br />
=====Webinar Information=====<br />
Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.<br />
https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/411606165<br />
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You can also dial in using your phone.<br />
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United States: +1 (312) 757-3121<br />
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Access Code: 411-606-165<br />
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=====Agenda=====<br />
# Approval of [[Draft Excom Minutes|September Minutes]] <br />
# President's Report<br />
#*Highlights<br />
#**Moving toward a single membership non-profit organization: On October 6, a special Virtual Assembly Meeting on Federation/Foundation Merge was held. The meeting provided information on merging the Foundation for Earth Science (501(c)3) & legal entity) with the Federation for Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). Key drivers include reduction of confusion about the two separate entities and streamlining organizational structure, policies and policies that would enable the assembly, leadership team, the board and office to run ESIP more effectively. The [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BNVvAjdVTSk0qt123J4fQkCzZY9KehSdVO6XNqUCqfI/edit#slide=id.g1816d97df0_1_79 informational package] is available for all. The next step for the assembly is to pass [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EHibcxtYnHVvs4wc8JfJhdXhogyQP_hXb0dM9nLgNJc/edit the member resolution] agreeing to the merge. Assembly vote will begin on Nov 6 and close on Dec 6. On October 7, the foundation for Earth Science board members met and passed [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nibMk1FH3C4rG6GbOidcaRixHLplkvE79kBPSvtEkXs/edit the board resolution] approving the merger proposal. The board is currently preparing the bylaws for the new organization.<br />
#**Significance: We had a strong ESIP presence at the International Data Week (Sept 11-17) including ESIP exhibit space, ImHere app, members attendance of World Data System forum, multiple presentations at SciDataCon, International Data Forum, a hackathons how to workshop, and attendance of many RDA sessions. Thanks to all who attended and wore the ESIP hat. Special appreciation goes to Erin and the staff for their outstanding support and outreach effort.<br />
# Staff Report <br />
#* The ESIP team supported IDW the week of 9/12. Thank you to all who contributed demos at our booth. As Emily mentioned, there was a lot of great visibility for ESIP activities. Initial follow-up was made with RDA and Belmont Forum for ways to extend ESIP's reach. <br />
#* ESIP also received additional visibility with the launch of PREP on September 22 ([https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/22/fact-sheet-launching-new-public-private-partnership-and-announcing-joint White House Fact Sheet]). A data working group is being led by NASA. We will keep ESIP aware of activities to contribute. If your group is interested, let Erin know. <br />
#* Bruce led effort to prepare for the special Assembly Call and plan the merger. He is working with Board and lawyer on revised Bylaws. Next steps after resolution will be to reach out to current members to transfer their membership to the consolidated organization. <br />
#* Annie Burgess is leading the next round of evaluation for AIST projects and has started evaluating the ontology repositories developed by ESIP. Annie is also leading review of Student Fellow applications. <br />
#* Erin will be at Sea Grant Week this week to make additional NOAA connections and share data management work with the Sea Grant Institutions. Full ED Report from Board Meeting last week can be reviewed [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Do8Pxaq3kJofLAYgNoXLbx-EXBy-qDcXPgEmOSIgzs4/edit here]<br />
#* Over next month team will be preparing for the Winter Meeting (Look for travel info from Annie K), continuing on evaluation activities, supporting review of Incubator projects with P&S, preparing for AGU activities including [https://docs.google.com/document/d/16eiKj2wE7id0fvndTE3XRSZVhZT7yS-qSR7zi0byviM/edit Data Fair Town Halls] (T-TH at lunch), booth and Ignite@AGU, announcing the new Student Fellows and supporting the Data Driven Decision Making workshop with Disaster Lifecycle cluster in DC. <br />
# Committee Reports <br />
#* C&B <br />
#** The 30-day comment period started on October 6 for the resolution to merge. Please add your comments to the google doc. <br />
#** The vote will open on Nov. 6. <br />
#* Finance<br />
#** The board received the financial review of FY15. It was positive and no major issues were raised. Board called for an audit of FY16 because expenditures were over the legal minimum that requires an audit. Board approved preliminary FY17 budget. It was very helpful to have most committees and working groups requested budgets budgets. If your group is still outstanding, please submit as soon as possible. <br />
#* Partnership <br />
#** Partnership has developed a draft [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KPyBzHvi9InUABCp13TQmtla89NSEqEzvMKy5EN_NK4/edit Member Handbook] for review.<br />
#** Partnership has received [[Partnership_Applications| four applications]]. These will be voted on at the same time ESIP votes on resolution. <br />
#* Data Stewardship - (1) J Goldstein, HK Ramapriyan, and M Mayernik submitted a manuscript concerning the extent of Digital Object Identifier (DOI) use to Data Science Journal in the hopes of having it accepted and included in its upcoming special issue "20 years of Persistent Identifiers." This is a culmination of many committee discussions concerning the writing of papers to advance the scholarship on identifiers. (2) We used last month's edition of our standing committee meeting to "host" the ESIP-wide International Data Week review.<br />
#* Education<br />
#** Our E-book of drone activities is in draft form. We will distribute the link and gather feedback at regional National Science Teacher Association meetings this fall.<br />
#** We have begun planning our "Out to Lunch" series of Webinars for educators. We plan to kick it off at the Winter meeting.<br />
#* IT&I<br />
#** Tech Dive [[Interoperability_and_Technology/Tech_Dive_Webinar_Series | Webinar Series]]<br />
#*** 13 October 2016: "EarthCube Integration and Test Environment (ECITE)": Phil Yang, GMU<br />
#* Nominations - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o394LekS6RHr0OJcsjs7fWzUhoQcCUdhSIRiZe52GBI/edit Job Description Doc]<br />
#** Now that the assembly call has happened, the Nominations committee is getting into full swing. We already have a few suggestions that we are working with. We plan on a call in the coming days to help define our plan of attack. If you have suggestions, or are wanting to serve, please let Denise or another member of the committee know. An ESIP-wide call for nominations will be coming soon.<br />
#***And, it's ESIP awards nominations time too.<br />
#* Products & Services <br />
#** New Incubator RFP out (thanks, A.B.); Software guidelines out for public comment (and now official, dedicated panel oral session at AGU 2016).<br />
#* Semantic Technology<br />
#** Ontology portal evaluation is beginning. Using the ESIP evaluation framework from previous NASA work.<br />
#** Looking to host a semantic symposium the day before the Winter ESIP meeting. Would include other Earth science groups such as RDA, OGC, and EarthCube to develop a semantics roadmap<br />
# Type Rep Reports <br />
# Other Business<br />
<br />
==== Tabled ==== <br />
#* “How to talk about ESIP” ideas and how to grow ESIP ambassadors<br />
#* How to document ESIP success stories - there is a technical and programmatic effort. As easy as tagging posts with #esipfed or some other hashtag, but then what do we do all the tagged content, where do we consolidate that, is that how we want to proceed with capturing success stories - let's think about this<br />
#** NOAA has some existing framework resources on this, EarthCube is also using NOAA's work on this.<br />
<br />
<br />
===== Telecon Minutes=====<br />
[[Draft Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
[[Approved Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
<br />
==== 2016 Work Plan ==== <br />
* [[2016ExComPlan| ExCom Work plan]]<br />
<br />
=== Past ExCom Workspaces === <br />
To see prior year work plans and links<br />
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Executive_Committee&oldid=52081 ExCom Home 2015]</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Program_Committee&diff=54382Program Committee2016-08-09T19:59:20Z<p>Cwhite: /* Agenda */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Executive Committee of the ESIP Federation==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
*Emily Law, President<br />
*Christine White, Vice President<br />
*Bill Teng, Chair, Finance <br />
*Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership<br />
*Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B<br />
*Bob Arko, Type I Rep<br />
*Sky Bristol, Type II Rep<br />
*Ted Habermann, Type III Rep<br />
*Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship<br />
*LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education<br />
*Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I<br />
*Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations<br />
*Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services<br />
* Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies<br />
<br />
===Activities===<br />
====Telecons====<br />
2nd Tuesday of the month at 3 pm Eastern<br />
:Next Telecon, August 9, 3 pm EDT<br />
<br />
=====Webinar Information=====<br />
Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.<br />
https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/411606165<br />
<br />
You can also dial in using your phone.<br />
<br />
United States: +1 (312) 757-3121<br />
<br />
Access Code: 411-606-165<br />
<br />
=====Agenda=====<br />
# Approval of [[Draft Excom Minutes|June Minutes]] <br />
# President's Report<br />
#*Highlights<br />
#**Summer Meeting: Thank you all very much for a fun and successful summer meeting. Many very positive and complimentary remarks overall were received. Look forward to hearing the post-meeting survey debrief. <br />
#*Actions<br />
#**2017 Theme: Looking ahead, it’s time to start thinking about theme for next ESIP year. The Visioneers will restart this Wednesday. Any suggestions and input for them to work with?<br />
#**International Week: Expect a strong ESIP presence throughout the week (Sept 11-17). If there will be an exhibit hall, ESIP will be part of it. This [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_k3qePtnCmiMb4OOdkIERg3_iCYJSQsQi9sa1A_do5E/edit?pref=2&pli=1 google doc] is to coordinate all our activities (e.g., co-hosting a RDA workshop on hackathons how-to, Christine will be a speaker at the International Data Forum, Emily, Rama and others will be presenters or panelists in various SciDataCon sessions). Please add events that you will participate and the ones that you are aware of.<br />
#**Communication: As we recognize that communication as being central to all aspects of ESIP (e.g., how to talk about ESIP internally and externally), improving the effectiveness of our communication will be valuable to ESIP. We are exploring training classes that can benefit the leadership team. If you are interested in participating, please let me know. <br />
# Staff Report <br />
#* Great meeting. Reminder to provide feedback by end of this week w/ link emailed <br />
#* Follow-up from workshop - initial draft [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ePhoF3XK-C0g6juwpFH--V6k08ohnu9HX7fTi5ZK0k0/edit report] and [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cJQmmXS4JUO7272nvcKO-XE4UPqShRX5PMmnhybZwiM/edit#heading=h.edg2o4kt3psb timeline] <br />
#* AIST evaluations have started, call for 2017 student fellows will go out by the end of August.<br />
# Committee Reports <br />
#* C&B <br />
#** Nothing to report. Scheduling a catch-up discussion with Erin on C&B issues resulting from the pre-summer meeting workshop.<br />
#* Finance<br />
#** Met in Durham; planned finalizing process documents to go into C&B's ESIP document repository.<br />
#** Sent to committee/working group chairs FY17 request for budgets.<br />
#* Partnership - Partnership is getting ready to review a fall membership application class (four new applicants) for assembly review by late Sept. and voting by Oct. In addition, this committee is also drafting strawman for the new ESIP Member Handbook. Stay tuned for updates and opportunities for review.<br />
#* Data Stewardship - We are creating a web page in which to list our committee's publications. Work on a paper concerning lessons learned from identifier utilization continues. During our June call, Catherine Jones (Software Engineering Group Leader from Scientific Computing Department at the Science and Technology Facilities Council) presented about software citation. Google doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZH7tdz8f0p3BvHp9iKJDe4m63knuiV4VgOihwJyytqA/edit which will eventually go on the wiki. The google doc is a work in progress.<br />
#* Education<br />
#** Workshop was a success. We were thrilled that two of our educators were FUNding Friday winners.<br />
#** We're considering getting set up on Open Science Framework to work with educators on the e-book.<br />
#** Shelley Olds, with help from Soren Scott, presented to ~35 mostly curriculum specialists at NSTA's STEM summit in Denver last month.<br />
#** Shelley Olds and Margaret Mooney both submitted AGU abstracts documenting our efforts.<br />
#** Made a broad invitation to our group for new initiatives that support ESIP's strategic goals. Will be preparing our budget over the next month.<br />
#* IT&I<br />
#** Tech Dive Webinar Series<br />
#*** 11 Aug 2016: "Community Data Analysis Tools (CDAT)": Charles Doutriaux, LLNL<br />
#** Planning Discussions<br />
#*** Consider how to host and curate a collection of reproducible Jupyter notebooks that would demonstrate progress toward IT&I goals of discoverability and interoperability via common services<br />
#* Nominations - The committee has been established, and preliminary discussions have started for some positions. The committee will be working with staff and leadership of ESIP and FES for determination of what positions related to the board need to elected this cycle. If you are a committee chair, expect to hear from one of the committee members soon about your committee.<br />
#* Products & Services - testbed governance roadmap and discussion points developed (on hold for the overall ESIP restructuring discussions & outcomes).<br />
#* Semantic Technology - Working on a community roadmap with external partners and Springer publishing<br />
# Type Rep Reports <br />
#* Type I - continuing to populate [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Vq1T8Pw_0jniCscuV5d7COxZmxAAA_WP0dR9kZIsPvk Member Map ]. EarthCube CDF Assembly July 22 @ESIP Summer Meeting elected all new officers: T.Ahern (Chair), D.Kinkade (Vice Chair), B.Arko (Secretary), S.Graves, J.Hausman, C.Meertens, B.Minster.<br />
#* Type II<br />
#* Type III<br />
# Other Business<br />
#* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_k3qePtnCmiMb4OOdkIERg3_iCYJSQsQi9sa1A_do5E/edit?usp=sharing ESIP at International Data Week] - Please add your ideas, events, sessions etc to this google doc<br />
#* 2017 Theme Discussion<br />
#* “How to talk about ESIP” ideas and how to grow ESIP ambassadors<br />
#* How to document ESIP success stories - there is a technical and programmatic effort. As easy as tagging posts with #esipfed or some other hashtag, but then what do we do all the tagged content, where do we consolidate that, is that how we want to proceed with capturing success stories - let's think about this<br />
#** NOAA has some existing framework resources on this, EarthCube is also using NOAA's work on this.<br />
#** Should we establish a Working Group for this, "Documenting Success Stories"? Annie B. & Danie K. coordinate the activity initially.<br />
#* Any other business?<br />
<br />
==== Tabled ==== <br />
<br />
===== Telecon Minutes=====<br />
[[Draft Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
[[Approved Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
<br />
==== 2016 Work Plan ==== <br />
* [[2016ExComPlan| ExCom Work plan]]<br />
<br />
=== Past ExCom Workspaces === <br />
To see prior year work plans and links<br />
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Executive_Committee&oldid=52081 ExCom Home 2015]</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Program_Committee&diff=54372Program Committee2016-08-09T19:15:20Z<p>Cwhite: /* Agenda */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Executive Committee of the ESIP Federation==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
*Emily Law, President<br />
*Christine White, Vice President<br />
*Bill Teng, Chair, Finance <br />
*Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership<br />
*Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B<br />
*Bob Arko, Type I Rep<br />
*Sky Bristol, Type II Rep<br />
*Ted Habermann, Type III Rep<br />
*Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship<br />
*LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education<br />
*Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I<br />
*Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations<br />
*Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services<br />
* Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies<br />
<br />
===Activities===<br />
====Telecons====<br />
2nd Tuesday of the month at 3 pm Eastern<br />
:Next Telecon, August 9, 3 pm EDT<br />
<br />
=====Webinar Information=====<br />
Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.<br />
https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/411606165<br />
<br />
You can also dial in using your phone.<br />
<br />
United States: +1 (312) 757-3121<br />
<br />
Access Code: 411-606-165<br />
<br />
=====Agenda=====<br />
# Approval of [[Draft Excom Minutes|June Minutes]] <br />
# President's Report<br />
#*Highlights<br />
#**Summer Meeting: Thank you all very much for a fun and successful summer meeting. Many very positive and complimentary remarks overall were received. Look forward to hearing the post-meeting survey debrief. <br />
#*Actions<br />
#**2017 Theme: Looking ahead, it’s time to start thinking about theme for next ESIP year. The Visioneers will restart this Wednesday. Any suggestions and input for them to work with?<br />
#**International Week: Expect a strong ESIP presence throughout the week (Sept 11-17). If there will be an exhibit hall, ESIP will be part of it. This [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_k3qePtnCmiMb4OOdkIERg3_iCYJSQsQi9sa1A_do5E/edit?pref=2&pli=1 google doc] is to coordinate all our activities (e.g., co-hosting a RDA workshop on hackathons how-to, Christine will be a speaker at the International Data Forum, Emily, Rama and others will be presenters or panelists in various SciDataCon sessions). Please add events that you will participate and the ones that you are aware of.<br />
#**Communication: As we recognize that communication as being central to all aspects of ESIP (e.g., how to talk about ESIP internally and externally), improving the effectiveness of our communication will be valuable to ESIP. We are exploring training classes that can benefit the leadership team. If you are interested in participating, please let me know. <br />
# Staff Report <br />
#* Great meeting. Reminder to provide feedback by end of this week w/ link emailed <br />
#* Follow-up from workshop - initial draft [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ePhoF3XK-C0g6juwpFH--V6k08ohnu9HX7fTi5ZK0k0/edit report] and [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cJQmmXS4JUO7272nvcKO-XE4UPqShRX5PMmnhybZwiM/edit#heading=h.edg2o4kt3psb timeline] <br />
#* AIST evaluations have started, call for 2017 student fellows will go out by the end of August.<br />
# Committee Reports <br />
#* C&B <br />
#** Nothing to report. Scheduling a catch-up discussion with Erin on C&B issues resulting from the pre-summer meeting workshop.<br />
#* Finance<br />
#** Met in Durham; planned finalizing process documents to go into C&B's ESIP document repository.<br />
#** Sent to committee/working group chairs FY17 request for budgets.<br />
#* Partnership - Partnership is getting ready to review a fall membership application class (four new applicants) for assembly review by late Sept. and voting by Oct. In addition, this committee is also drafting strawman for the new ESIP Member Handbook. Stay tuned for updates and opportunities for review.<br />
#* Data Stewardship - We are creating a web page in which to list our committee's publications. Work on a paper concerning lessons learned from identifier utilization continues. During our June call, Catherine Jones (Software Engineering Group Leader from Scientific Computing Department at the Science and Technology Facilities Council) presented about software citation. <br />
#* Education<br />
#** Workshop was a success. We were thrilled that two of our educators were FUNding Friday winners.<br />
#** We're considering getting set up on Open Science Framework to work with educators on the e-book.<br />
#** Shelley Olds, with help from Soren Scott, presented to ~35 mostly curriculum specialists at NSTA's STEM summit in Denver last month.<br />
#** Shelley Olds and Margaret Mooney both submitted AGU abstracts documenting our efforts.<br />
#** Made a broad invitation to our group for new initiatives that support ESIP's strategic goals. Will be preparing our budget over the next month.<br />
#* IT&I<br />
#* Nominations - The committee has been established, and preliminary discussions have started for some positions. The committee will be working with staff and leadership of ESIP and FES for determination of what positions related to the board need to elected this cycle. If you are a committee chair, expect to hear from one of the committee members soon about your committee.<br />
#* Products & Services - testbed governance roadmap and discussion points developed (on hold for the overall ESIP restructuring discussions & outcomes).<br />
#* Semantic Technology - Working on a community roadmap with external partners and Springer publishing<br />
# Type Rep Reports <br />
# Other Business<br />
#* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_k3qePtnCmiMb4OOdkIERg3_iCYJSQsQi9sa1A_do5E/edit?usp=sharing ESIP at International Data Week] - Please add your ideas, events, sessions etc to this google doc<br />
#* 2017 Theme Discussion<br />
#* “How to talk about ESIP” ideas and how to grow ESIP ambassadors<br />
#* How to document ESIP success stories - there is a technical and programmatic effort. As easy as tagging posts with #esipfed or some other hashtag, but then what do we do all the tagged content, where do we consolidate that, is that how we want to proceed with capturing success stories - let's think about this<br />
#* Any other business?<br />
<br />
==== Tabled ==== <br />
<br />
===== Telecon Minutes=====<br />
[[Draft Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
[[Approved Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
<br />
==== 2016 Work Plan ==== <br />
* [[2016ExComPlan| ExCom Work plan]]<br />
<br />
=== Past ExCom Workspaces === <br />
To see prior year work plans and links<br />
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Executive_Committee&oldid=52081 ExCom Home 2015]</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Program_Committee&diff=54371Program Committee2016-08-09T19:14:46Z<p>Cwhite: /* Agenda */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Executive Committee of the ESIP Federation==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
*Emily Law, President<br />
*Christine White, Vice President<br />
*Bill Teng, Chair, Finance <br />
*Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership<br />
*Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B<br />
*Bob Arko, Type I Rep<br />
*Sky Bristol, Type II Rep<br />
*Ted Habermann, Type III Rep<br />
*Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship<br />
*LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education<br />
*Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I<br />
*Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations<br />
*Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services<br />
* Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies<br />
<br />
===Activities===<br />
====Telecons====<br />
2nd Tuesday of the month at 3 pm Eastern<br />
:Next Telecon, August 9, 3 pm EDT<br />
<br />
=====Webinar Information=====<br />
Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.<br />
https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/411606165<br />
<br />
You can also dial in using your phone.<br />
<br />
United States: +1 (312) 757-3121<br />
<br />
Access Code: 411-606-165<br />
<br />
=====Agenda=====<br />
# Approval of [[Draft Excom Minutes|June Minutes]] <br />
# President's Report<br />
#*Highlights<br />
#**Summer Meeting: Thank you all very much for a fun and successful summer meeting. Many very positive and complimentary remarks overall were received. Look forward to hearing the post-meeting survey debrief. <br />
#*Actions<br />
#**2017 Theme: Looking ahead, it’s time to start thinking about theme for next ESIP year. The Visioneers will restart this Wednesday. Any suggestions and input for them to work with?<br />
#**International Week: Expect a strong ESIP presence throughout the week (Sept 11-17). If there will be an exhibit hall, ESIP will be part of it. This [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_k3qePtnCmiMb4OOdkIERg3_iCYJSQsQi9sa1A_do5E/edit?pref=2&pli=1 google doc] is to coordinate all our activities (e.g., co-hosting a RDA workshop on hackathons how-to, Christine will be a speaker at the International Data Forum, Emily, Rama and others will be presenters or panelists in various SciDataCon sessions). Please add events that you will participate and the ones that you are aware of.<br />
#**Communication: As we recognize that communication as being central to all aspects of ESIP (e.g., how to talk about ESIP internally and externally), improving the effectiveness of our communication will be valuable to ESIP. We are exploring training classes that can benefit the leadership team. If you are interested in participating, please let me know. <br />
# Staff Report <br />
#* Great meeting. Reminder to provide feedback by end of this week w/ link emailed <br />
#* Follow-up from workshop - initial draft [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ePhoF3XK-C0g6juwpFH--V6k08ohnu9HX7fTi5ZK0k0/edit report] and [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cJQmmXS4JUO7272nvcKO-XE4UPqShRX5PMmnhybZwiM/edit#heading=h.edg2o4kt3psb timeline] <br />
#* AIST evaluations have started, call for 2017 student fellows will go out by the end of August.<br />
# Committee Reports <br />
#* C&B <br />
#** Nothing to report. Scheduling a catch-up discussion with Erin on C&B issues resulting from the pre-summer meeting workshop.<br />
#* Finance<br />
#** Met in Durham; planned finalizing process documents to go into C&B's ESIP document repository.<br />
#** Sent to committee/working group chairs FY17 request for budgets.<br />
#* Partnership - Partnership is getting ready to review a fall membership application class (four new applicants) for assembly review by late Sept. and voting by Oct. In addition, this committee is also drafting strawman for the new ESIP Member Handbook. Stay tuned for updates and opportunities for review.<br />
#* Data Stewardship - We are creating a web page in which to list our committee's publications. Work on a paper concerning lessons learned from identifier utilization continues. During our June call, Catherine Jones (Software Engineering Group Leader from Scientific Computing Department at the Science and Technology Facilities Council) presented about software citation. <br />
#* Education<br />
#** Workshop was a success. We were thrilled that two of our educators were FUNding Friday winners.<br />
#** We're considering getting set up on Open Science Framework to work with educators on the e-book.<br />
#** Shelley Olds, with help from Soren Scott, presented to ~35 mostly curriculum specialists at NSTA's STEM summit in Denver last month.<br />
#** Shelley Olds and Margaret Mooney both submitted AGU abstracts documenting our efforts.<br />
#** Made a broad invitation to our group for new initiatives that support ESIP's strategic goals. Will be preparing our budget over the next month.<br />
#* IT&I<br />
#* Nominations - The committee has been established, and preliminary discussions have started for some positions. The committee will be working with staff and leadership of ESIP and FES for determination of what positions related to the board need to elected this cycle. If you are a committee chair, expect to hear from one of the committee members soon about your committee.<br />
#* Products & Services - testbed governance roadmap and discussion points developed (on hold for the overall ESIP restructuring discussions & outcomes).<br />
#* Semantic Technology - Working on a community roadmap with external partners and Springer publishing<br />
# Type Rep Reports <br />
# Other Business<br />
#* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_k3qePtnCmiMb4OOdkIERg3_iCYJSQsQi9sa1A_do5E/edit?usp=sharing ESIP at International Data Week] - Please add your ideas, events, sessions etc to this google doc<br />
#* 2017 Theme Discussion<br />
#* “How to talk about ESIP” ideas and how to grow ESIP ambassadors<br />
#* How to document ESIP success stories - For the other documentation piece, there is a technical and programmatic effort. As easy as tagging posts with #esipfed or some other hashtag, but then what do we do all the tagged content, where do we consolidate that, is that how we want to proceed with capturing success stories - let's think about this<br />
#* Any other business?<br />
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==== Tabled ==== <br />
<br />
===== Telecon Minutes=====<br />
[[Draft Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
[[Approved Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
<br />
==== 2016 Work Plan ==== <br />
* [[2016ExComPlan| ExCom Work plan]]<br />
<br />
=== Past ExCom Workspaces === <br />
To see prior year work plans and links<br />
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Executive_Committee&oldid=52081 ExCom Home 2015]</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Program_Committee&diff=53850Program Committee2016-05-10T01:32:30Z<p>Cwhite: /* Agenda */</p>
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<div>==Executive Committee of the ESIP Federation==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
*Emily Law, President<br />
*Christine White, Vice President<br />
*Bill Teng, Chair, Finance <br />
*Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership<br />
*Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B<br />
*Bob Arko, Type I Rep<br />
*Sky Bristol, Type II Rep<br />
*Ted Habermann, Type III Rep<br />
*Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship<br />
*LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education<br />
*Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I<br />
*Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations<br />
*Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services<br />
* Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies<br />
<br />
===Activities===<br />
====Telecons====<br />
2nd Tuesday of the month at 3 pm Eastern<br />
:Next Telecon, February 9, 3 pm EDT<br />
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=====Webinar Information=====<br />
Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.<br />
https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/411606165<br />
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You can also dial in using your phone.<br />
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Access Code: 411-606-165<br />
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=====Agenda=====<br />
# Approval of [[Draft Excom Minutes|April Minutes]] <br />
# President's Report<br />
#*Highlight<br />
#**The Foundation for Earth Science: FES board meeting was held on April 29, 2016. It covered ESIP report (sponsors visit, summer meeting, endorsement of “Open Data in Big Data World”, ESIP evaluation), Foundation/ESIP organization structure update, finance report and ESIP Director report (proposals, letter of collaboration, staff update and training, near term activities). <br />
#**Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act: The Center for Data Innovation (CDI) was seeking co-signers in their letter of support for this legislation to be introduced into the U.S. House and Senate. Upon reviewing the proposed legislation and summary, the FES board members unanimously voted in favor to support this bill. The proposal, summary and support letter can be found at: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B_2czh6FTo34OE1HTWE1OXlodk0. CDI published a [https://www.datainnovation.org/2016/05/center-for-data-innovation-and-47-other-organizations-urge-congressional-action-on-bipartisan-open-government-data-act/ press release] regarding the letter of support.<br />
#*FYI<br />
#**JPL new leadership: Michael M. Watkins, the Clare Cockrell Williams Centennial Chair in Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Center for Space Research at The University of Texas at Austin, and a former leader at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has been appointed to serve as Director of JPL and Vice President at Caltech effective July 1, 2016. <br />
# Staff Report <br />
#* Highlights <br />
#** Erin - Evaluation is going well. Interviews are in progress and survey questions need review. Survey will go out next week. Last quarter was a heavy fundraising/proposal writing quarter. We submitted two proposals for basic ESIP support + Testbed work, co-I on three NSF proposals that would utilize ESIP framework and wrote 9 letters of support. Confirmed two of three plenary speakers - Ben Preston, ORNL, Ellen Prager, Earth2Ocean and Jon Marino (To Be Confirmed). <br />
#** Annie B. - Working on membership database; Next round of evaluation testbed will kick-off in July; Summer Meeting draft schedule is posted. <br />
#** Rebecca - Developing a Communication Strategy; AGU Data Blog (looking for contributing authors); Led development of [http://www.esipfed.org/node/9170 2015 Annual Report] - feedback welcome. <br />
#** Dan - Migrated ESIP to GoToMeeting; Working on the ImHere Check-in System. This is ready for use on ESIP telecons to begin familiarizing with tool. <br />
#** Annie K. - Recovering well! Back to work on Summer Meeting logistics. <br />
#* Actions: <br />
#** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_tcNiSd3Gy0hahYF3tIXp_MiiSN5M8Fi7zcM0ET84Ek/edit Review Survey Q's] and add others interested in knowing about. <br />
#** Review [https://2016esipsummermeeting.sched.org/?iframe=no Summer Meeting Schedule]; Send comments to Annie B. <br />
#** Make Summer travel plans. Contact Annie K. <br />
#** Contribute to the [https://blogs.agu.org/geospace/category/data/ AGU Data Blog] - contact Rebecca <br />
#** Use the ImHere App on your next Telecon!<br />
# Committee Reports <br />
#* C&B <br />
#::*Discussions with Ficom (Bill), P&S (Soren), and others about the location and management of [[List_of_Polices_and_Procedures|policies and procedures (P&P) documents]] on the wiki<br />
#* Finance<br />
#::*Starting to draft process documents, based on our discussion notes over the past year, to be included in C&B's policies and procedures (P&P) wiki page.<br />
#::*Will hold an informal Ficom meeting at ESIP Summer.<br />
#::*Either together with this meeting or separately, will make Ficom available to any group planning to submit a budget for FY17.<br />
#::*For discussion: Excom (I think) has discussed the possibility of scheduling an informal session at ESIP Summer for those groups that got funding for FY16 to give a short report.<br />
#* Partnership<br />
#* Data Stewardship<br />
#* Education<br />
#::*Held our second of two webinars on using recreational drones for STEM on April 26. ~25 participants.<br />
#::*14 of our 15 workshop slots were snapped up within a day of the second Webinar. We'll cap registration at 20.<br />
#::*Our strategic plan was finalized and posted.<br />
#* IT&I<br />
#* Nominations<br />
#::*Added our suggestions/lessons learned to the [[List_of_Polices_and_Procedures | Policies and Procedures]] listing, and added a category tag of "PoliciesAndProcedures" (this tag can be changed, but I thought it was a good idea to start with something)<br />
#::*Waiting on discussion with ESIP President about establishing the next NomCom chair and committee<br />
#* Products & Services<br />
#::*Released the [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/9169 Spring 2016 RFP].<br />
#::*Drafting ESIP Testbed and RFP [[List_of_Polices_and_Procedures | Policies and Procedures]] <br />
#::*Co-organizing an ESIP/EarthCube Software Assessment Workshop (June, Boulder, CO) and will provide report out from that activity as well as incorporate assessment feedback into the ESIP software evaluation guidelines as part of that ongoing activity.<br />
#* Semantic Technology<br />
#::*In the process of evaluating community needs for an ontology portal. Currently drafting an [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Semantic_Web_Ontology_Portal_Evaluation_Approach Evaluation Plan].<br />
#::*Beginning the process of migrating semantic resources to the cloud<br />
#::*Mid-term goal is to better quantify what community really needs and what infrastructure is required to support this<br />
# Type Rep Reports <br />
#* Type I <br />
#* Type II <br />
#* Type III - Met May 5 for first Type 3 telecon. Small, but productive call. Organizing a type gathering at ESIP Summer and hope to have a more formal activity at the Winter Meeting. <br />
# Other Business<br />
#* GEO Program Committee Report - Kathy<br />
#* Member Map - Christine/Annie B - This idea sprouted during our April Sponsor meetings, when a sponsor asked about the spatial distribution of ESIP members. Annie is working with the existing ESIP member data for an initial visualization of where members are located; also, in the spirit of Science Communication, she is researching different map styles to share and visualize other ESIP stories<br />
#* Creative ways to crowdsource RFIs? <br />
#* Any other business?<br />
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==== Tabled ==== <br />
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===== Telecon Minutes=====<br />
[[Draft Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
[[Approved Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
<br />
==== 2016 Work Plan ==== <br />
* [[2016ExComPlan| ExCom Work plan]]<br />
<br />
=== Past ExCom Workspaces === <br />
To see prior year work plans and links<br />
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Executive_Committee&oldid=52081 ExCom Home 2015]</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Program_Committee&diff=52651Program Committee2016-02-09T16:39:01Z<p>Cwhite: /* Agenda */</p>
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<div>==Executive Committee of the ESIP Federation==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
*Emily Law, President<br />
*Christine White, Vice President<br />
*Bill Teng, Chair, Finance <br />
*Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership<br />
*Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B<br />
*Bob Arko, Type I Rep<br />
*Sky Bristol, Type II Rep<br />
*Ted Habermann, Type III Rep<br />
*Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship<br />
*LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education<br />
*Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I<br />
*Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations<br />
*Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services<br />
* Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies<br />
<br />
===Activities===<br />
====Telecons====<br />
2nd Tuesday of the month at 3 pm Eastern<br />
:Next Telecon, February 9, 3 pm EDT<br />
<br />
=====Webex Information=====<br />
<br />
To join the Excom meeting via Webex:<br />
:Go to http://esipfed.webex.com<br />
:Click on the Meeting Center Tab<br />
:Find the Executive Committee meeting and Click Join<br />
:Enter your name, email and meeting code (23138379) <br><br />
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You will be prompted for audio either through your computer (follow prompts on screen) or by call in by phone (instructions below). <br><br />
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For phone:<br />
:Dial: 877-668-4493<br />
:Meeting Code: 23138379#<br />
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=====Agenda=====<br />
# Reminder that [[Draft Excom Minutes|Dec Minutes]] were approved<br />
# President's Report<br />
#*Highlight<br />
#**Funding opportunity: USGS is interested in standing up a couple of prototypes to demonstrate a PROV registry and an Annotation catalog. The products of these prototypes could potentially become community resources for ESIP. Sky Bristol, Steve Aulenbach, Erin, Annie, Christine and Emily held an initial telecom to discuss how ESIP can facilitate and support this effort. The conversation included how testbed framework can facilitate the prototypes, evaluation of the deliverables, and communication of such distributed architecture and products. USGS is currently crafting a project outline that will allow us to formulate a detailed plan to support their needs. Products and services committee will be involved. No action for ESIP at this time.<br />
#**Meeting: Christine and Emily met at JPL last week and discussed ESIP 2016 work plan. The short distance between us affords regular tag up opportunities to work together closely. <br />
#*Actions <br />
#**Committee chairs, working group and cluster chairs/co-chairs (may be Type reps as well?) to update work plan to align with ESIP direction in order to achieve ESIP goals laid out in the strategic plan approved by the assembly during 2016 winter meeting.<br />
#**Excom to submit written report to ExCom wiki shortly after receiving monthly call notification, and read the reports prior to the call in an effort to allow more time for discussion.<br />
#**ExCom to review and add ideas to 2016 work list on the ExCom wiki. We’d like your inputs/feedback as well as help to prioritize this year’s work. This will also assist in identifying opportunities to get involved.<br />
# Staff Report <br />
#*Highlight<br />
#** NOAA Proposal draft will be shared early next week. <br />
#** Legal update - The conflict of interest law has been changed as of 2013. Federal employees can serve on boards. Waiting for explicit confirmation from NASA and NOAA. <br />
#** Rebecca Fowler is leading a refresh of esipfed.org, adding meetings.esipfed.org and will be working to organize content<br />
#** Staff has been working to define roles/tasks for clarity. Also created staff email - staff@esipfed.org, for when you are unsure who to contact. <br />
#*Actions <br />
#** Website refresh - If you are interested in providing feedback, let Rebecca know. <br />
#** Looking for member highlights and AGU data blog contributors <br />
# Committee Reports <br />
#* C&B - <br />
#**No activities since winter meeting<br />
#**Will be holding telecon with new C&B members (soon) to discuss (1) updating bylaws with approved changes, (2) draft of a "Standing Rules" document to address ESIP best practices and procedures that are not appropriate for bylaws (will discuss with FICom as noted below), (3) Revisiting officer term lengths discussed last year but put on hold for federation-foundation discussions, (4) prepare for discussion on changes to federation-foundation relationship as necessary <br />
#* Finance<br />
#**Status of FY16 proposed budgets: (1) 3 approved (Drupal WG, Data Stewardship Comm, Education Comm); (2) 1 to be submitted (Semantic Technologies Comm); and (3) supplemental travel budget from DS Comm (being reviewed).<br />
#**Request to be sent to those groups who received funding for FY15 for reports on results. This item is on Ficom's list of processes to be (a bit) more formalized.<br />
#**Ficom to follow up with Ken K. re: C&B initiative on compiling ~best practices (or SOPs) for all committees (+other groups?) in some esip wiki space. Aligns very nicely with Ficom's formalization efforts.<br />
#* Partnership<br />
#**Partnership is planning to move to monthly meetings. First meeting agenda topic is to strategize on short-term actions for the committee. Suggested topics include: Welcome package and new member/welcome telecon; mapping the landscape in order to find gaps in membership to target outreach; and others to be added before Tuesday's meeting!<br />
#* Data Stewardship<br />
#** We are developing an outline and aims and scope for a paper concerning the use of identifiers for non-dataset entities, focusing on software.<br />
#* Education<br />
#**[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iFCsjpWTZUnGMyUGJk3r2PKZrtY9er9-Lrz3O9ot8Yo/edit#slide=id.gc6f8954bc_0_53 This brief slide deck] outlines the committee's plans to encourage the use of recreational drones for STEM. Planning is underway for two Webinars and a summer workshop for educators.<br />
#* IT&I<br />
#** Ethan and Erin will be discussing IT&I plans after ExComm Telecon<br />
#** Follow up on my call-to-action at ESIP Winter Mtg<br />
#** Request for ExComm input (including ideas for Rant/Rave topics)<br />
#* Nominations<br />
#**The 2015 NomCom is working on a suggestions/lessons learned document available here: [[Nomination Committee/Suggestions]]<br />
#* Products & Services<br />
#** Discussing ESIP's potential participation in OGC Testbed 12 and 13.<br />
#** Continuing efforts to expand the tech evaluation process through the P&S testbed with support from interested ESIP members across clusters/committees.<br />
#** Two governance questions to raise: a) (related to Semantic Tech committee discussions) Is there a need or desire to define the RFP and review board processes for all committees, through an ESIP-wide standing rules document? and b) regardless of decision regarding A, can we resolve the outstanding issues around privacy items such as the submitted proposals?<br />
#* Semantic Technology<br />
#** Used discussions in January to think about the structure of the committee. Several liaisons to internal and external groups were identified. Had initial discussions with Testbed and Products and Services to leverage expertise. Budget was drafted and sent to Ficom. Identified a few high priority topics to pursue in coming months. Deploying a core set of ESIP Semantic Technologies such as Ontology Repository and Linked Data efforts. One key topic that has emerged is how to govern ESIP semantic resources. Will be discussed at February telecon. Continue discussions with EarthCube Semantics Working group and beginning connections with RDA and OGC. <br />
# Type Rep Reports <br />
#* Type I (Arko)<br />
#** Suggested goals for 2016: 1. Work to align existing online directories (ESIP, COPDESS, CDF, re3data, etc); and 2. Recruit more NSF-supported facilities .<br />
#* [[Characterizing ESIP Member Contributions|Type II]]<br />
#* Type III<br />
# Other Business<br />
#* 2016 Work Plan ([https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oFfmBybB37NkWM0icYst9oWD_f961fCE5YU6tO0rv5M/edit#gid=0 Initial tasks])<br />
#* Summer Meeting Updates - Visioneers met last week. Call for sessions will open on Feb.16. ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hjD2MOYwmhSi2pvXpKkDDlAcXO4eteikdYhWWAhsE3Y/edit Notes], [https://esip-all.slack.com/messages/summer_mtg/details/ Slack channel for planning]<br />
#* International Data Week<br />
#* Discuss Earth Science Data Analytics cluster's [[Proposed Definition and Goals of Earth Science Data Analytics]]<br />
<br />
===== Telecon Minutes=====<br />
[[Draft Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
[[Approved Excom Minutes]]<br><br />
<br />
==== 2016 Work Plan ==== <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Past ExCom Workspaces === <br />
To see prior year work plans and links<br />
* [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Executive_Committee&oldid=52081 ExCom Home 2015]</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Products_and_Services&diff=52618Products and Services2016-02-07T19:18:09Z<p>Cwhite: /* Topics of Interest */</p>
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<div>Chair: Christine White, Esri<br />
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Vice-Chair: <br />
==Purpose==<br />
Per Section V.2.1 of the [http://wiki.esipfed.org/images/1/13/Bylaws_12_01_11_FINAL.pdf ESIP Federation Bylaws], the Standing Committee for Earth Science Products and Services carries out the following:<br />
* encourages the development, use and improvement of best science practices to ensure the quality, usability, and breadth of data and resultant information, products, and services;<br />
* provides a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for Federation Earth science products; and<br />
* provides a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for product services and user services.<br />
<br />
Products and Services carries out this mission by soliciting for and supporting projects through the ESIP Testbed and also through the FUNding Friday mechanism.<br />
<br />
==Monthly Teleconference==<br />
The Products and Services group has a regular monthly telecon (currently) on 3rd Tuesday of every month at 2 pm EST. <br />
<br />
The telecon call-in information for these meetings are below:<br />
<br />
: Dial: 1-877-668-4493<br />
: Access Code: 23133897 #<br />
: https://esipfed.webex.com/mw0306ld/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=esipfed&service=1<br />
<br />
== Committee E-mail List ==<br />
:http://lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-products<br />
<br />
==Yearly Highlights ==<br />
:[http://commons.esipfed.org/sites/default/files/2016WinterSOF.pdf 2015 P&S highlights, slide 18 on State of the Federation, Winter Meeting 2016, presentation]<br />
:[http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/File:0_ESIP202_Feb2015_ER.pptx 2014 P&S highlights, slide 12 on ESIP 202 presentation]<br />
:[[2013 highlights/report given at the 2014 Winter ESIP Federation Meeting]]<br />
<br />
==Meeting & Telecon Minutes: ==<br />
Please see the [[P&S Telecon Minutes]] page.<br />
<br />
== Testbed ==<br />
'''Please see the ''[[Testbed]] wiki page'' or [http://testbed.esipfed.org/ ESIP Testbed Site] for latest info.''' <br />
<br />
The purpose of the Products and Services Testbed is to provide an environment where innovations in prototype standards, services, protocols, and best practices can be explored and evaluated. The testbed serves as a forum for innovative collaboration across all sectors of the Federation to improve availability and access to our member products and services for mutual benefit. <br />
<br />
Projects deployed in the Testbed are proposed through response to the Testbed RFP or FUNding Friday activities. Testbed project proposals are reviewed by the Testbed Configuration Board.<br />
<br />
==Topics of Interest==<br />
:Testbed Projects & RFP<br />
:Documentation, Lifecycle, and ESIP Utilization of Testbed Projects<br />
:FUNding Friday - see [[FUNding Friday Projects]] <br />
:Metadata for data quality, services, and provenance<br />
:Peer-reviewed datasets<br />
:Permanent dataset names, parameter names, registries, and identifiers<br />
:Client access to catalogs<br />
:Service quality<br />
:[[P&S Data Quality|Data Quality]]<br />
:[[P&S Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records|Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records]] <br />
:[[Federation Inventory]]<br />
<br />
== Metadata Resources & Data Standards ==<br />
=== Metadata Clearinghouses for ESIP Products and Services ===<br />
:[http://www.echo.nasa.gov ECHO]<br />
:[http://www.gcmd.nasa.gov GCMD]<br />
:[http://gcmd.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Home.do?Portal=esip&MetadataType=0 GCMD ESIP Data Portal]<br />
:[http://gcmd.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Home.do?Portal=esip_svcs&MetadataType=1 GCMD ESIP Data Services Portal]<br />
<br />
===Metadata Standards ===<br />
:[http://www.echo.eos.nasa.gov/documents/data_partners/ECHO_10_Data_Partner_User_Guide.pdf ECHO Data Model]<br />
:[http://gcmd.nasa.gov/User/difguide/difman.html GCMD DIF]<br />
:[http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/fgdc-endorsed-standards FGDC]</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Past_Testbed_Tasks&diff=52617Past Testbed Tasks2016-02-07T19:17:17Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>''Back to:'' [[Products and Services]]<br />
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Note, this page shows the past Testbed projects. See [[FUNding Friday Projects]] page for FUNding Friday student and member winners each year.<br />
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=Testbed Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
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! Main POC !! Title !! Summary !! ESIP Sponsoring Group !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Tom Narock || Consuming and Reusing Semantic Geoscience Data ||Geoscience data is an underrepresented component of the Linked Data cloud. It has since become a central tenet of the Semantic Web Cluster's long term plan to facilitate the publication and consumption of geoscience Linked Data as well as promote ontology reuse. This project will provide initial feedback regarding the benefits of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) in geoscience data publication and consumption by analyzing the existing ontologies from the ESIP ontology portal, creating and evaluating an ODP for direct geoscience data access, and finally comparing the ODP-based approach to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) approach to publishing, retrieving, and reasoning over large amounts of geoscience data.|| Semantic Web Cluster || 2015-11<br />
|-<br />
| Dave Jones || Addressing an Immediate Need: Establishing the Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group C-COP to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing Across Public and Private Sectors ||Address the need to connect disparate agencies and organizations for sharing real-time data during a disaster event. Will use GeoCollaborate™ to access public and private sector data sources that help operations professionals locate and be routed to open places of business that provide supplies and services during a disaster or prolonged power outage. StormCenter and The All Hazards Consortium (AHC) will lead collaborative decision-making sessions that include Fleet Response Working Group members to gather feedback for how this approach may impact their decision-making environment.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-11<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Expanding a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing ||The Disaster Lifecycle Cluster seeks to build upon the previous funded proposal that established a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to provide a platform from which to share geospatial data in a collaborative environment. By increasing the number of instances that can be used by an initial group of users/participants within the ESIP Disaster Lifecycle Cluster, two additional organizations can engage in their own testing and collaborative connections among ESIP member data providers and potential users that support disaster lifecycle and end user communities.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| John Graybeal || Evaluating Prototypes in ESIP’s Testbed Ecosystem (FastTrack)|| Responds to the ESIP Fast-Track solicitation and addresses the need for product evaluation criteria and mechanisms suitable for internal and community use. We propose an analysis which researches and consolidates existing evaluation strategies for community products, and recommends an approach suitable for use with submissions to ESIP’s Testbed process. While targeting initial criteria for products entering and exiting ESIP Prototype status, the proposal anticipates a framework that can be developed and rolled out incrementally, and later applied to Testbed products with increasing readiness levels.|| Products & Services || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Disaster Life Cycle Testbed - An ESIP Product & Service Testbed Proposal: Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (C-COP) || Start a framework for addressing recent Presidential Executive Orders (PEOs) that address the importance of building resilience in the face of a changing climate both nationally and internationally. The testbed will provide a forum by which ESIP members can not only improve their products, but also share best practices for other members considering how they too might have data products to offer to the disasters response community. || Disaster Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Eugene Chi || Connect, Share and Discover ESIP Research and Expertise using VIVO Technology || ESIP community needs a searchable database cataloguing the research and expertise of ESIP members to promote integrated and interdisciplinary research. VIVO is a semantic-web-based research and expertise discovery tool. This work is to use this technology to research and develop a testbed system for the collection and discovery of ESIP research and expertise, and includes extending the VIVO ontology to include the ESIP research and expertise ontology. || ESIP Testbed Web Support || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Marshall Ma || An entity linking service for documents and datasets in Earth and environmental sciences || (1) Engage member organizations of ESIP to use the services and to share their ontologies and vocabularies to build the knowledge base; and (2) Design, build and online deployment of the service that support entity linking in Earth and environmental sciences. || Semantic Web || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || ToolMatch Service Testbed Project Proposal to Expand Community Engagement || In order to make further progress on the viability and robustness of the ToolMatch service, much more instance data needs to be added to the knowledge store .... Testing the service by means of an online hackathon should also allow the service to be known more broadly... In-depth analysis of the types of data collection, visualization tools, and technologies used by these data catalogs and registries. || ToolMatch - Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/7288 ToolMatch Service Testbed Project] || Address two use cases by developing out The ToolMatch service - 1) that its difficult to know what tools can be used on a dataset, and 2) the converse; it is difficult to know what datasets a tool is capable of working upon. The ToolMatch service will have, at its foundation, a simple ontology and set of rules that will describe what kinds of tools work with what kinds of datasets. For both use cases, a simple user interface for user interaction, and a simple RESTful web service for use by applications and data portals, will give the client access to the ToolMatch knowledge base with the same goal of matching tools with data. || Semantic Web Cluster, Energy & Climate Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|-<br />
| Michael Huhns, Line Pouchard || [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7772 Evaluating the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation] || Many organizations, groups, and individual scientists are developing ontologies to specify the semantics of their domains of interest in environmental sciences. The ontologies are useful, but largely exist in isolation. There are major benefits to be obtained by relating the ontologies to each other and reconcile their differing specification languages. The objective of our effort is to develop a semi‐automated means for curating ontologies and reconciling their representations. The result will be greatly improved accessibility and usability of the ontologies, which will help to accelerate research in environmental sciences. || Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|}<br />
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= ESIP Testbed Task Archive =<br />
Below is an archive of past Testbed activities with a short description for each. <br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Additional Links<br />
|-<br />
| Yeuchen Chi || Expert Skills Database || The Federation collectively includes an exceptionally wide range of expertise among its participating members. These expert skills of Federation members will be categorized in a knowledge base and offered as a service. We use the master ESIP email list of over 700 names and Drupal tools to enable any member to associate their name to a skill and associated expertise level. Currently, the skill list consists of 60 information technology (IT) skills, but members can add additional categories. A GUI enables users to search this skill list by multiple criteria. Ultimate Benefit: Promotion of expert skills available within the Federation. || http://www.esipfed.org/expert<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Unique Data Identifiers || The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent identifier schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship. These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles as well as inventory nodes in data archives and must include representations for versions of the entity being identified. Many identifier options have been proposed for different kinds of data, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination. For example, two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating distinctions between them that may not be addressed adequately by identifier schemes used for typical "published" items such as books and journals. Last year's activity included a recommendation on identifier schemes to use for Earth Science data, but did not address the implementation issues that arise with the identifier schemes considered. The next Task for this work is to examine several different kinds of Federal datasets, assign identifiers from up to nine identifier schemes considered in the previously mentioned paper, evaluate and compare the implementation implications and other practical considerations associated with the use of each identifier scheme applied, and develop recommendations. Practical considerations may include the need to integrate with other metadata schemes such as ISO, and application to data citation formats and practices. <br />
Ultimate Benefit: Permanent, unique names for Federation data products and recommendations for practice based on testbed experience.<br />
|| TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Zhipeng Gui, Qunying Huang, Kai Liu, Jizhe Xia || Semantic Registration of Data and Services || The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts. The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings. Ultimate Benefit: Better classification and discovery of specialized Federation products and services || http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Application-Specific Portals || The Air Quality Working Group has been developing an inventory of air quality data and data services. Other GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas could benefit from a similar capability to highlight offerings from Federation members. For this task, the Air Quality has been cloned for use by other application areas. Initially, a Water portal has been developed. Ultimate Benefit: Better marketing of targeted Federation products and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Chaowei (Phil) Yang || Cloud Computing Resource Calculator || Many scientist and geospatial application providers are considering transforming their current computing infrastructure into clouds (IaaS and PaaS); however, it is a big challenge to select the most suitable cloud platforms and configuration solutions for the cloud novices and even for experienced cloud users. The Cloud Computing Resource Calculator meets this need by providing an advisory tool for: 1) Helping cloud novices understand the basic concepts and potential applications of cloud computing providers, services and technologies; 2) Assisting cloud computing early adopters to easily and effectively select the best solutions based on their unique application requirements; and 3) Periodically collecting/updating the mainstream cloud platforms’ information and build an expert system and database.|| http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/1244<br />
|-<br />
| Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Zhipeng Gui, Min Sun, Chaowei Yang || Data and information Quality || An automatic classification/annotation system that assesses, monitors, and accurately reports on the quality of ESIP data and services. The project sought to include: (1) a quality model and classification engine that established a set of quality metrics for data and services. The engine will automatically derive the quality of ESIP products and services, (2) work on metadata quality which is not usually addressed, and (3) accounting feedback from users to help rate quality of data and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Christine White || Open Search and Discovery || The Discovery cluster provides a medium for Federation members to coordinate on development, deployment, and creation of interoperable specifications for Discovery services such as OpenSearch, DataCasting, and ServiceCasting. The initial vision of the Discovery Testbed was to support the following items:<br />
* Setup validation for registration of ESIP services<br />
* Encourage the ESIP Community to register their services<br />
* Provide some form of a service cast of registered services<br />
* Chaining together of data and services, e.g., exploring data and services mapping, brokering<br />
The Esri Geoportal Server was used in this case to provide such an interface. || [[media:StateOfTheArt_ESIP_Discovery_Testbed-20120307rev1.pdf]], http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_Testbed_Work_Plan, http://23.23.211.222:8080/geoportal<br />
|-<br />
| Greg Janee and Nancy Hoebelheinrich || Data Stewardship ||The datasets to be addressed will include a relatively simple image collection and a second containing granule-level data objects such as a longtime series from multiple sensors/satellites. The project tasks include:(1) Preparing, transforming and performing quality control tasks on the metadata for each dataset in a storage environment that can be queried, and appended to add the identifiers from each scheme to each entity in the two datasets,(2) Map the existing metadata for each dataset into the metadata requirements for each identifier scheme for the purposes of identification and citation, (3) Track and discuss the implementation issues associated with each task per the questions previously identified by the Data Stewardship & Preservation cluster (see the initial list on the ESIP wiki at: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Implementation_Issues_to_be_addressed ), and others as they arise, (4) Bring implementation issues to the Data Stewardship cluster as needed for discussion and resolution/decision, (5) Develop list of practical considerations for each identifier scheme, and (6) develop draft set of best practices for discussion at future ESIP Federation meetings. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Eric Rozell, Tom Narock || Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics || The ability to discover the technical competencies of other researchers in the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) community can help in the discovery of collaborations. In addition to collaboration discovery, social network information can be used to analyze trends in the field, which will help project managers identify irrelevant, well-established, and emerging technologies and specifications. This information will help keep projects focused on the technologies and standards that are actually being used, making them more useful to the ESSI community. This problem was addressed with a solution involving two components: a pipeline for generating structured data from AGU-ESSI abstracts and ESIP member information, and an API and Web application for accessing the generated data.|| http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Linked_Open_Research_Data_for_Earth_and_Space_Science_Informatics<br />
|-<br />
|Jerry Yun Pan, Nigel Banks||Re-usable Metadata Editor||Develop a generic, reusable software system to facilitate the support for multiple metadata standards and their variations. The tool will be flexible and reusable for multiple metadata standards, and allows an administrator to design and tailor the metadata authoring tool/editor according to the targeted metadata schema without writing new code. The core of the tool suite consists of two parts: (1) a designing tool for "super" users who are responsible for designing the metadata editors, and (2) a rendering engine that makes use of a pre-made metadata editor definition. The designing tool defines a metadata editor based on user inputs and saves the definition for reuse. The rendering engine makes use of the definitions to facilitate metadata authoring and editing. The "editor-of-editors" is schema driven. The design tool allows for the selection of a subset of a whole schema (a "profile") to form an editor, or the selection of an extension of a schema. The editor definitions can be exported and shared among multiple installations. Ultimate Benefit: A general purpose metadata authoring and editing tool that is easily shareable across organizations. The code is open source for free use.|| TBD<br />
|}</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Past_Testbed_Tasks&diff=52616Past Testbed Tasks2016-02-07T19:16:55Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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Note, this page shows the past Testbed projects. See [[FUNding Friday Projects]] page for FUNding Friday student and member winners each year.<br />
<br />
=Testbed Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Main POC !! Title !! Summary !! ESIP Sponsoring Group !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Tom Narock || Consuming and Reusing Semantic Geoscience Data ||Geoscience data is an underrepresented component of the Linked Data cloud. It has since become a central tenet of the Semantic Web Cluster's long term plan to facilitate the publication and consumption of geoscience Linked Data as well as promote ontology reuse. This project will provide initial feedback regarding the benefits of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) in geoscience data publication and consumption by analyzing the existing ontologies from the ESIP ontology portal, creating and evaluating an ODP for direct geoscience data access, and finally comparing the ODP-based approach to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) approach to publishing, retrieving, and reasoning over large amounts of geoscience data.|| Semantic Web Cluster || 2015-11<br />
|-<br />
| Dave Jones || Addressing an Immediate Need: Establishing the Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group C-COP to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing Across Public and Private Sectors ||Address the need to connect disparate agencies and organizations for sharing real-time data during a disaster event. Will use GeoCollaborate™ to access public and private sector data sources that help operations professionals locate and be routed to open places of business that provide supplies and services during a disaster or prolonged power outage. StormCenter and The All Hazards Consortium (AHC) will lead collaborative decision-making sessions that include Fleet Response Working Group members to gather feedback for how this approach may impact their decision-making environment.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-11<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Expanding a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing ||The Disaster Lifecycle Cluster seeks to build upon the previous funded proposal that established a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to provide a platform from which to share geospatial data in a collaborative environment. By increasing the number of instances that can be used by an initial group of users/participants within the ESIP Disaster Lifecycle Cluster, two additional organizations can engage in their own testing and collaborative connections among ESIP member data providers and potential users that support disaster lifecycle and end user communities.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| John Graybeal || Evaluating Prototypes in ESIP’s Testbed Ecosystem (FastTrack)|| Responds to the ESIP Fast-Track solicitation and addresses the need for product evaluation criteria and mechanisms suitable for internal and community use. We propose an analysis which researches and consolidates existing evaluation strategies for community products, and recommends an approach suitable for use with submissions to ESIP’s Testbed process. While targeting initial criteria for products entering and exiting ESIP Prototype status, the proposal anticipates a framework that can be developed and rolled out incrementally, and later applied to Testbed products with increasing readiness levels.|| Products & Services || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Disaster Life Cycle Testbed - An ESIP Product & Service Testbed Proposal: Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (C-COP) || Start a framework for addressing recent Presidential Executive Orders (PEOs) that address the importance of building resilience in the face of a changing climate both nationally and internationally. The testbed will provide a forum by which ESIP members can not only improve their products, but also share best practices for other members considering how they too might have data products to offer to the disasters response community. || Disaster Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Eugene Chi || Connect, Share and Discover ESIP Research and Expertise using VIVO Technology || ESIP community needs a searchable database cataloguing the research and expertise of ESIP members to promote integrated and interdisciplinary research. VIVO is a semantic-web-based research and expertise discovery tool. This work is to use this technology to research and develop a testbed system for the collection and discovery of ESIP research and expertise, and includes extending the VIVO ontology to include the ESIP research and expertise ontology. || ESIP Testbed Web Support || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Marshall Ma || An entity linking service for documents and datasets in Earth and environmental sciences || (1) Engage member organizations of ESIP to use the services and to share their ontologies and vocabularies to build the knowledge base; and (2) Design, build and online deployment of the service that support entity linking in Earth and environmental sciences. || Semantic Web || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || ToolMatch Service Testbed Project Proposal to Expand Community Engagement || In order to make further progress on the viability and robustness of the ToolMatch service, much more instance data needs to be added to the knowledge store .... Testing the service by means of an online hackathon should also allow the service to be known more broadly... In-depth analysis of the types of data collection, visualization tools, and technologies used by these data catalogs and registries. || ToolMatch - Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/7288 ToolMatch Service Testbed Project] || Address two use cases by developing out The ToolMatch service - 1) that its difficult to know what tools can be used on a dataset, and 2) the converse; it is difficult to know what datasets a tool is capable of working upon. The ToolMatch service will have, at its foundation, a simple ontology and set of rules that will describe what kinds of tools work with what kinds of datasets. For both use cases, a simple user interface for user interaction, and a simple RESTful web service for use by applications and data portals, will give the client access to the ToolMatch knowledge base with the same goal of matching tools with data. || Semantic Web Cluster, Energy & Climate Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|-<br />
| Michael Huhns, Line Pouchard || [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7772 Evaluating the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation] || Many organizations, groups, and individual scientists are developing ontologies to specify the semantics of their domains of interest in environmental sciences. The ontologies are useful, but largely exist in isolation. There are major benefits to be obtained by relating the ontologies to each other and reconcile their differing specification languages. The objective of our effort is to develop a semi‐automated means for curating ontologies and reconciling their representations. The result will be greatly improved accessibility and usability of the ontologies, which will help to accelerate research in environmental sciences. || Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= ESIP Testbed Task Archive =<br />
Below is an archive of past Testbed activities with a short description for each. <br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Additional Links<br />
|-<br />
| Yeuchen Chi || Expert Skills Database || The Federation collectively includes an exceptionally wide range of expertise among its participating members. These expert skills of Federation members will be categorized in a knowledge base and offered as a service. We use the master ESIP email list of over 700 names and Drupal tools to enable any member to associate their name to a skill and associated expertise level. Currently, the skill list consists of 60 information technology (IT) skills, but members can add additional categories. A GUI enables users to search this skill list by multiple criteria. Ultimate Benefit: Promotion of expert skills available within the Federation. || http://www.esipfed.org/expert<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Unique Data Identifiers || The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent identifier schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship. These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles as well as inventory nodes in data archives and must include representations for versions of the entity being identified. Many identifier options have been proposed for different kinds of data, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination. For example, two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating distinctions between them that may not be addressed adequately by identifier schemes used for typical "published" items such as books and journals. Last year's activity included a recommendation on identifier schemes to use for Earth Science data, but did not address the implementation issues that arise with the identifier schemes considered. The next Task for this work is to examine several different kinds of Federal datasets, assign identifiers from up to nine identifier schemes considered in the previously mentioned paper, evaluate and compare the implementation implications and other practical considerations associated with the use of each identifier scheme applied, and develop recommendations. Practical considerations may include the need to integrate with other metadata schemes such as ISO, and application to data citation formats and practices. <br />
Ultimate Benefit: Permanent, unique names for Federation data products and recommendations for practice based on testbed experience.<br />
|| TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Zhipeng Gui, Qunying Huang, Kai Liu, Jizhe Xia || Semantic Registration of Data and Services || The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts. The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings. Ultimate Benefit: Better classification and discovery of specialized Federation products and services || http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Application-Specific Portals || The Air Quality Working Group has been developing an inventory of air quality data and data services. Other GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas could benefit from a similar capability to highlight offerings from Federation members. For this task, the Air Quality has been cloned for use by other application areas. Initially, a Water portal has been developed. Ultimate Benefit: Better marketing of targeted Federation products and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Chaowei (Phil) Yang || Cloud Computing Resource Calculator || Many scientist and geospatial application providers are considering transforming their current computing infrastructure into clouds (IaaS and PaaS); however, it is a big challenge to select the most suitable cloud platforms and configuration solutions for the cloud novices and even for experienced cloud users. The Cloud Computing Resource Calculator meets this need by providing an advisory tool for: 1) Helping cloud novices understand the basic concepts and potential applications of cloud computing providers, services and technologies; 2) Assisting cloud computing early adopters to easily and effectively select the best solutions based on their unique application requirements; and 3) Periodically collecting/updating the mainstream cloud platforms’ information and build an expert system and database.|| http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/1244<br />
|-<br />
| Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Zhipeng Gui, Min Sun, Chaowei Yang || Data and information Quality || An automatic classification/annotation system that assesses, monitors, and accurately reports on the quality of ESIP data and services. The project sought to include: (1) a quality model and classification engine that established a set of quality metrics for data and services. The engine will automatically derive the quality of ESIP products and services, (2) work on metadata quality which is not usually addressed, and (3) accounting feedback from users to help rate quality of data and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Christine White || Open Search and Discovery || The Discovery cluster provides a medium for Federation members to coordinate on development, deployment, and creation of interoperable specifications for Discovery services such as OpenSearch, DataCasting, and ServiceCasting. The initial vision of the Discovery Testbed was to support the following items:<br />
* Setup validation for registration of ESIP services<br />
* Encourage the ESIP Community to register their services<br />
* Provide some form of a service cast of registered services<br />
* Chaining together of data and services, e.g., exploring data and services mapping, brokering<br />
The Esri Geoportal Server was used in this case to provide such an interface. || [[media:StateOfTheArt_ESIP_Discovery_Testbed-20120307rev1.pdf]], http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_Testbed_Work_Plan, http://23.23.211.222:8080/geoportal<br />
|-<br />
| Greg Janee and Nancy Hoebelheinrich || Data Stewardship ||The datasets to be addressed will include a relatively simple image collection and a second containing granule-level data objects such as a longtime series from multiple sensors/satellites. The project tasks include:(1) Preparing, transforming and performing quality control tasks on the metadata for each dataset in a storage environment that can be queried, and appended to add the identifiers from each scheme to each entity in the two datasets,(2) Map the existing metadata for each dataset into the metadata requirements for each identifier scheme for the purposes of identification and citation, (3) Track and discuss the implementation issues associated with each task per the questions previously identified by the Data Stewardship & Preservation cluster (see the initial list on the ESIP wiki at: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Implementation_Issues_to_be_addressed ), and others as they arise, (4) Bring implementation issues to the Data Stewardship cluster as needed for discussion and resolution/decision, (5) Develop list of practical considerations for each identifier scheme, and (6) develop draft set of best practices for discussion at future ESIP Federation meetings. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Eric Rozell, Tom Narock || Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics || The ability to discover the technical competencies of other researchers in the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) community can help in the discovery of collaborations. In addition to collaboration discovery, social network information can be used to analyze trends in the field, which will help project managers identify irrelevant, well-established, and emerging technologies and specifications. This information will help keep projects focused on the technologies and standards that are actually being used, making them more useful to the ESSI community. This problem was addressed with a solution involving two components: a pipeline for generating structured data from AGU-ESSI abstracts and ESIP member information, and an API and Web application for accessing the generated data.|| http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Linked_Open_Research_Data_for_Earth_and_Space_Science_Informatics<br />
|-<br />
|Jerry Yun Pan, Nigel Banks||Re-usable Metadata Editor||Develop a generic, reusable software system to facilitate the support for multiple metadata standards and their variations. The tool will be flexible and reusable for multiple metadata standards, and allows an administrator to design and tailor the metadata authoring tool/editor according to the targeted metadata schema without writing new code. The core of the tool suite consists of two parts: (1) a designing tool for "super" users who are responsible for designing the metadata editors, and (2) a rendering engine that makes use of a pre-made metadata editor definition. The designing tool defines a metadata editor based on user inputs and saves the definition for reuse. The rendering engine makes use of the definitions to facilitate metadata authoring and editing. The "editor-of-editors" is schema driven. The design tool allows for the selection of a subset of a whole schema (a "profile") to form an editor, or the selection of an extension of a schema. The editor definitions can be exported and shared among multiple installations. Ultimate Benefit: A general purpose metadata authoring and editing tool that is easily shareable across organizations. The code is open source for free use.|| TBD<br />
|}</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Past_Testbed_Tasks&diff=52615Past Testbed Tasks2016-02-07T19:15:34Z<p>Cwhite: /* FUNding Friday Projects */</p>
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=Testbed Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Main POC !! Title !! Summary !! ESIP Sponsoring Group !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Tom Narock || Consuming and Reusing Semantic Geoscience Data ||Geoscience data is an underrepresented component of the Linked Data cloud. It has since become a central tenet of the Semantic Web Cluster's long term plan to facilitate the publication and consumption of geoscience Linked Data as well as promote ontology reuse. This project will provide initial feedback regarding the benefits of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) in geoscience data publication and consumption by analyzing the existing ontologies from the ESIP ontology portal, creating and evaluating an ODP for direct geoscience data access, and finally comparing the ODP-based approach to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) approach to publishing, retrieving, and reasoning over large amounts of geoscience data.|| Semantic Web Cluster || 2015-11<br />
|-<br />
| Dave Jones || Addressing an Immediate Need: Establishing the Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group C-COP to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing Across Public and Private Sectors ||Address the need to connect disparate agencies and organizations for sharing real-time data during a disaster event. Will use GeoCollaborate™ to access public and private sector data sources that help operations professionals locate and be routed to open places of business that provide supplies and services during a disaster or prolonged power outage. StormCenter and The All Hazards Consortium (AHC) will lead collaborative decision-making sessions that include Fleet Response Working Group members to gather feedback for how this approach may impact their decision-making environment.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-11<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Expanding a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing ||The Disaster Lifecycle Cluster seeks to build upon the previous funded proposal that established a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to provide a platform from which to share geospatial data in a collaborative environment. By increasing the number of instances that can be used by an initial group of users/participants within the ESIP Disaster Lifecycle Cluster, two additional organizations can engage in their own testing and collaborative connections among ESIP member data providers and potential users that support disaster lifecycle and end user communities.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| John Graybeal || Evaluating Prototypes in ESIP’s Testbed Ecosystem (FastTrack)|| Responds to the ESIP Fast-Track solicitation and addresses the need for product evaluation criteria and mechanisms suitable for internal and community use. We propose an analysis which researches and consolidates existing evaluation strategies for community products, and recommends an approach suitable for use with submissions to ESIP’s Testbed process. While targeting initial criteria for products entering and exiting ESIP Prototype status, the proposal anticipates a framework that can be developed and rolled out incrementally, and later applied to Testbed products with increasing readiness levels.|| Products & Services || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Disaster Life Cycle Testbed - An ESIP Product & Service Testbed Proposal: Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (C-COP) || Start a framework for addressing recent Presidential Executive Orders (PEOs) that address the importance of building resilience in the face of a changing climate both nationally and internationally. The testbed will provide a forum by which ESIP members can not only improve their products, but also share best practices for other members considering how they too might have data products to offer to the disasters response community. || Disaster Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Eugene Chi || Connect, Share and Discover ESIP Research and Expertise using VIVO Technology || ESIP community needs a searchable database cataloguing the research and expertise of ESIP members to promote integrated and interdisciplinary research. VIVO is a semantic-web-based research and expertise discovery tool. This work is to use this technology to research and develop a testbed system for the collection and discovery of ESIP research and expertise, and includes extending the VIVO ontology to include the ESIP research and expertise ontology. || ESIP Testbed Web Support || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Marshall Ma || An entity linking service for documents and datasets in Earth and environmental sciences || (1) Engage member organizations of ESIP to use the services and to share their ontologies and vocabularies to build the knowledge base; and (2) Design, build and online deployment of the service that support entity linking in Earth and environmental sciences. || Semantic Web || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || ToolMatch Service Testbed Project Proposal to Expand Community Engagement || In order to make further progress on the viability and robustness of the ToolMatch service, much more instance data needs to be added to the knowledge store .... Testing the service by means of an online hackathon should also allow the service to be known more broadly... In-depth analysis of the types of data collection, visualization tools, and technologies used by these data catalogs and registries. || ToolMatch - Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/7288 ToolMatch Service Testbed Project] || Address two use cases by developing out The ToolMatch service - 1) that its difficult to know what tools can be used on a dataset, and 2) the converse; it is difficult to know what datasets a tool is capable of working upon. The ToolMatch service will have, at its foundation, a simple ontology and set of rules that will describe what kinds of tools work with what kinds of datasets. For both use cases, a simple user interface for user interaction, and a simple RESTful web service for use by applications and data portals, will give the client access to the ToolMatch knowledge base with the same goal of matching tools with data. || Semantic Web Cluster, Energy & Climate Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|-<br />
| Michael Huhns, Line Pouchard || [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7772 Evaluating the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation] || Many organizations, groups, and individual scientists are developing ontologies to specify the semantics of their domains of interest in environmental sciences. The ontologies are useful, but largely exist in isolation. There are major benefits to be obtained by relating the ontologies to each other and reconcile their differing specification languages. The objective of our effort is to develop a semi‐automated means for curating ontologies and reconciling their representations. The result will be greatly improved accessibility and usability of the ontologies, which will help to accelerate research in environmental sciences. || Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=FUNding Friday Projects=<br />
See [[FUNding Friday Projects]] page for student and member winners each year.<br />
<br />
= ESIP Testbed Task Archive =<br />
Below is an archive of past Testbed activities with a short description for each. <br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Additional Links<br />
|-<br />
| Yeuchen Chi || Expert Skills Database || The Federation collectively includes an exceptionally wide range of expertise among its participating members. These expert skills of Federation members will be categorized in a knowledge base and offered as a service. We use the master ESIP email list of over 700 names and Drupal tools to enable any member to associate their name to a skill and associated expertise level. Currently, the skill list consists of 60 information technology (IT) skills, but members can add additional categories. A GUI enables users to search this skill list by multiple criteria. Ultimate Benefit: Promotion of expert skills available within the Federation. || http://www.esipfed.org/expert<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Unique Data Identifiers || The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent identifier schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship. These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles as well as inventory nodes in data archives and must include representations for versions of the entity being identified. Many identifier options have been proposed for different kinds of data, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination. For example, two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating distinctions between them that may not be addressed adequately by identifier schemes used for typical "published" items such as books and journals. Last year's activity included a recommendation on identifier schemes to use for Earth Science data, but did not address the implementation issues that arise with the identifier schemes considered. The next Task for this work is to examine several different kinds of Federal datasets, assign identifiers from up to nine identifier schemes considered in the previously mentioned paper, evaluate and compare the implementation implications and other practical considerations associated with the use of each identifier scheme applied, and develop recommendations. Practical considerations may include the need to integrate with other metadata schemes such as ISO, and application to data citation formats and practices. <br />
Ultimate Benefit: Permanent, unique names for Federation data products and recommendations for practice based on testbed experience.<br />
|| TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Zhipeng Gui, Qunying Huang, Kai Liu, Jizhe Xia || Semantic Registration of Data and Services || The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts. The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings. Ultimate Benefit: Better classification and discovery of specialized Federation products and services || http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Application-Specific Portals || The Air Quality Working Group has been developing an inventory of air quality data and data services. Other GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas could benefit from a similar capability to highlight offerings from Federation members. For this task, the Air Quality has been cloned for use by other application areas. Initially, a Water portal has been developed. Ultimate Benefit: Better marketing of targeted Federation products and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Chaowei (Phil) Yang || Cloud Computing Resource Calculator || Many scientist and geospatial application providers are considering transforming their current computing infrastructure into clouds (IaaS and PaaS); however, it is a big challenge to select the most suitable cloud platforms and configuration solutions for the cloud novices and even for experienced cloud users. The Cloud Computing Resource Calculator meets this need by providing an advisory tool for: 1) Helping cloud novices understand the basic concepts and potential applications of cloud computing providers, services and technologies; 2) Assisting cloud computing early adopters to easily and effectively select the best solutions based on their unique application requirements; and 3) Periodically collecting/updating the mainstream cloud platforms’ information and build an expert system and database.|| http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/1244<br />
|-<br />
| Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Zhipeng Gui, Min Sun, Chaowei Yang || Data and information Quality || An automatic classification/annotation system that assesses, monitors, and accurately reports on the quality of ESIP data and services. The project sought to include: (1) a quality model and classification engine that established a set of quality metrics for data and services. The engine will automatically derive the quality of ESIP products and services, (2) work on metadata quality which is not usually addressed, and (3) accounting feedback from users to help rate quality of data and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Christine White || Open Search and Discovery || The Discovery cluster provides a medium for Federation members to coordinate on development, deployment, and creation of interoperable specifications for Discovery services such as OpenSearch, DataCasting, and ServiceCasting. The initial vision of the Discovery Testbed was to support the following items:<br />
* Setup validation for registration of ESIP services<br />
* Encourage the ESIP Community to register their services<br />
* Provide some form of a service cast of registered services<br />
* Chaining together of data and services, e.g., exploring data and services mapping, brokering<br />
The Esri Geoportal Server was used in this case to provide such an interface. || [[media:StateOfTheArt_ESIP_Discovery_Testbed-20120307rev1.pdf]], http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_Testbed_Work_Plan, http://23.23.211.222:8080/geoportal<br />
|-<br />
| Greg Janee and Nancy Hoebelheinrich || Data Stewardship ||The datasets to be addressed will include a relatively simple image collection and a second containing granule-level data objects such as a longtime series from multiple sensors/satellites. The project tasks include:(1) Preparing, transforming and performing quality control tasks on the metadata for each dataset in a storage environment that can be queried, and appended to add the identifiers from each scheme to each entity in the two datasets,(2) Map the existing metadata for each dataset into the metadata requirements for each identifier scheme for the purposes of identification and citation, (3) Track and discuss the implementation issues associated with each task per the questions previously identified by the Data Stewardship & Preservation cluster (see the initial list on the ESIP wiki at: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Implementation_Issues_to_be_addressed ), and others as they arise, (4) Bring implementation issues to the Data Stewardship cluster as needed for discussion and resolution/decision, (5) Develop list of practical considerations for each identifier scheme, and (6) develop draft set of best practices for discussion at future ESIP Federation meetings. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Eric Rozell, Tom Narock || Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics || The ability to discover the technical competencies of other researchers in the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) community can help in the discovery of collaborations. In addition to collaboration discovery, social network information can be used to analyze trends in the field, which will help project managers identify irrelevant, well-established, and emerging technologies and specifications. This information will help keep projects focused on the technologies and standards that are actually being used, making them more useful to the ESSI community. This problem was addressed with a solution involving two components: a pipeline for generating structured data from AGU-ESSI abstracts and ESIP member information, and an API and Web application for accessing the generated data.|| http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Linked_Open_Research_Data_for_Earth_and_Space_Science_Informatics<br />
|-<br />
|Jerry Yun Pan, Nigel Banks||Re-usable Metadata Editor||Develop a generic, reusable software system to facilitate the support for multiple metadata standards and their variations. The tool will be flexible and reusable for multiple metadata standards, and allows an administrator to design and tailor the metadata authoring tool/editor according to the targeted metadata schema without writing new code. The core of the tool suite consists of two parts: (1) a designing tool for "super" users who are responsible for designing the metadata editors, and (2) a rendering engine that makes use of a pre-made metadata editor definition. The designing tool defines a metadata editor based on user inputs and saves the definition for reuse. The rendering engine makes use of the definitions to facilitate metadata authoring and editing. The "editor-of-editors" is schema driven. The design tool allows for the selection of a subset of a whole schema (a "profile") to form an editor, or the selection of an extension of a schema. The editor definitions can be exported and shared among multiple installations. Ultimate Benefit: A general purpose metadata authoring and editing tool that is easily shareable across organizations. The code is open source for free use.|| TBD<br />
|}</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=FUNding_Friday_Projects&diff=52614FUNding Friday Projects2016-02-07T19:14:11Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>FUNding Friday is an annual mini-competition established in 2008 at the Summer Meeting in Durham, NH. Several $5,000 awards are given to members to fund small projects that are inspired by ESIP collaboration or participation. In 2009, the ESIP Federation created a student competition with awards of $3,000.<br />
<br />
This competition serves several purposes: <br />
<br />
*promotes and rewards new collaborations or bridges between ESIP projects and technologies, so that novel outcomes can be explored. <br />
*fosters small-scale projects of real value by supporting programmer salary, travel—whatever is needed to realize the proposed work. <br />
*showcases how the ESIP Federation can leverage current technologies and member skills to add new services with a modest amount of effort(and funding). <br />
*rewards members who are looking to explore new collaborations and new ideas inspired by other Federation member activities.<br />
===2015 Winners===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Winter Meeting Poster Node !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Sean Barberie (student award) || HumanHAB || HumanHAB is an exploratory project to explore what data sets and statistical indicators may better represent the nuanced impressions that people have about these complicated human habitats. Some potential indicators that will be explored are: walkability and public transit, local-businesses versus chains, and correlation exceptions... This project is highly exploratory, and the methods and relevant indicators will change and develop with the project. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Brandon Whitehead (student award) || Semantic models for the ESIP community || ...Semantic matching of orthogonal facets of the ESIP community could provide some semblance of an enhanced search (and perhaps visualization component) along with an understanding of where the community has been (conceptually) versus where it may be going. More broadly, the proposal aims to capture the emergent structures, patterns, or clusters of information prevalent in within the community. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Sarah Ramdeen (student award) || Stewardship of physical data, Use case and community engagement || ESIP supports a wide variety of work related to earth science information. One prominent group within ESIP is the Data Stewardship Committee... Given the overwhelming activities the Data Stewardship Committee is working on, there is a need to explore an ESIP cluster to focus on this narrow subset and to act as a leader among this community. The project will develop a use case describing the existing issues related to stewardship of physical data and work on building connections between these diverse communities. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Sophie Hou (student award) || Roadmap for the Next Generation Data Management Training Modules || From 2011-2103, ESIP partnered with NOAA and the Data Conservancy to produce the current version of the “ESIP Data Management for Scientists Short Course”. To understand the current needs for data management training and to build effective training resources, the Committee would like to assess the current landscape Data Management Training (DMT) resources. This project will contribute to the Committee’s roadmap as well as determining potential collaborators for the ESIP Short Course. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Soren Scott (full award) || A Github Badging System || Github badges provide a quick and visual way to indicate build status, code coverage or participation in crowdfunding opportunities. There is a desire in the ESIP community to acknowledge participation in ESIP collaborations without requiring (or creating the expectation) that a project repository be hosted under the ESIP Federation Github organization... This project proposes a system of badges that can be included in a project’s README documentation as a simple branding activity. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Wade Bishop (full award) || Harvesting Information Partnerships for Geospatial data Education and Outreach (HIPGEO) || The HIPGEO project will create a potential partner directory to grow ESIP institutional membership. This list combined with existing members also provides a useful sampling frame for job analyses to inform the earth data science curriculum. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Shelley E. Olds (full award) || Interactive Interface To Explore Natural Hazards And Vulnerability In Coastal Communities || Along the coast of the Pacific Northwest a massive earthquake could occur at anytime. Residents and visitors often aren’t familiar with how to prepare or respond. In this project, an interactive map will provide an interface to explore hazards and vulnerability data available for the coastal Pacific Northwest.|| TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|}<br />
===2014 Winners===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Winter Meeting Poster Node !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Bruce Caron, Adam Shepherd || Working Group Syndicated Content Tool || Similarly focused working groups across organizations such as ESIP, Research Data Alliance (RDA) and EarthCube (EC) could share content from their respective online website workspaces through a syndicated RSS feed for display on the other related working group websites. Coincidentally, all of these sites run on the Drupal platform, for which, the EOSDIS group developed code, or Drupal module, that syndicates content across multiuple Drupal sites – the Earth Data Federated Content Tool (ED-FCT). || TBD || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kaijian Xu || Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories || This project provides a new framework for a highly expressive, descriptive annotation of multimedia content like images, video, etc. in scientific repositories, using a language structure that is inspired by word classes (e.g. nouns, verbs, etc.) in everyday (“natural”) languages. Such a framework would be used to capture and represent rich, semantic annotations about what objects and features are present within the scene, the interactions between them, as well as further describe such objects and interactions. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7864 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kelly Monteleone || Converting mb-system Files in Windows and Apple || Mb-system is a unix based program for multibeam sonar (Bathymetry) data. Mb-system was supported by NOAA from 2002 to 2004. It does not work in windows and is complicated to install and use. Goal: Create a one click installer that will install Cygwin, mb-system, and supporting files on a windows system. And pull out a python wrapper for Apple and non-cygwin installation. This will provide a GUI to export the data in xyz, ascii, and GeoTIFF. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7760 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kevin Dobbs || Leveraging the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that American emergency response agencies can utilize aquaponics systems after a disaster event has occurred in any region. It is imperative that the aquaponics systems be suited for the region based on climate and population and that the people of the area are taught how to use and maintain the systems. Through the use of technologies such as Esri ArcMap, Worldview, iRODS, ect. geospatial data from a variety of DAACs will be used to pre-plan for a case study on a particular region. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7871 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kyle Nelson || Enhancing and Educating with the WxSat Mobile App || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was designed and presented to promote the idea of building upon the successful WxSat app (iOS and Android) that allows users to view global visible, infrared and water vapor satellite data on mobile devices. Current products are viewable in black and white but color enhanced imagery can allow for ease of identification of key weather features. Satellite imagery is becoming more prevalent with ease of access online and is being displayed increasingly often on local and national weather segments. To enhance the understanding of the all who view satellite data, an educational tutorial will be created with case studies for all three imagery types. Meteorological phenomena will be identified through annotated still and animated images to provide a conceptual model for the user to apply when viewing satellite imagery in real time via the WxSat app or another source. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7860 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Lee Hyokyung || HDFCRAFT – Making Earth Data Fun! || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that NASA HDF/HDF-EOS data products can be used for Minecraft game. Minecraft stores its world maps in Anvil file format that has similar characteristics that HDF has. By converting NASA HDF data into Minecraft map, kids and educators can play with NASA Earth Data easily in 3D. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7742 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Matt Ferrito || ToolMatch Extension || The ToolMatch project was based upon the idea of semantic matching of data collections and tools that could be used with those data collections. Specifically, two use cases were developed for the service: 1. Search for the tools that can be used with a given data collection, and then find out what the tool can do with the data collection. 2. Search for collections that can be used with their tool, and capture information about what the data user would like to be able to do with their data. The poster created and presented at the 2014 ESIP Summer Meeting was based upon the idea of an extension of the second use case. This extension involves the semantic matching of data collection content with applicable tools. This matching is stricter than than matching based upon information about the data collection, but the use case itself is broader in scope. Ex: Given rainfall or topology measurements, determine which tools within a hyrdologoical model can be used with the data content. This will allow the appropriate tools within the model to be used with the matching data collection content. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7735 || Summer 2014<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===2013 Winners===<br />
Member Winners<br><br />
*[[Demonstration of a mobile application for estimating forest canopy closure using digital photographs]]<br />
*[[Making the Case for Data Stewardship Use Cases: A Community Building and Engagement Exercise ]]<br />
*[[Semantic Similarity Computation and Concept Mapping in Earth and Environmental Science]]<br />
<br />
Student Winners<br><br />
*[[Agricultural Drought Information Cluster]]<br />
*[[Aquaponics For Triage and Emergency Response (AFTER)]]<br />
<br />
Other FUNding Friday-inspired projects:<br><br />
[[CheapStix]]: Distributing and Running OPeNDAP servers on a Virtual Machine <br><br />
[[1-Click Satellite Data]]: A Java applet that let's you display current satellite data '''anywhere''' in the world with one simple mouse click.<br />
<br />
===2012 Winners===<br />
Member Winners<br><br />
*[[Climate Change – One Student @ a Time]]<br />
*[[Exploratory visualization of earth science data in a Semantic Web context]]<br />
*[[Preprint Service with Open Review]]<br />
*[[Revitalizing Forgotten Data: Bringing 40 years of Glacial Photography into the Digital Age]]<br />
<br />
Student Winners<br><br />
*[[Assessing Skills, Access and Trust of Data Use and Reuse within the ESIP community]]<br />
*[[Interactive Federation Network Analysis Tool]]<br />
<br />
===2011 Winners===<br />
Member Winners <br><br />
*[[Demonstrating preservation connections using OAI-ORE]]<br />
*[[Digital Earth Watch in Action]]<br />
*[[Enhanced Collaborative Disaster Management Through Interoperable Data Visualization]]<br />
*[[Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics]]<br />
<br />
Student Winners<br><br />
*[[Engaging Climate Change Learners in Public School Settings]]<br />
*[[Self-Organizing Maps for Automated Oil-Spill Detection]]<br />
<br />
===2010 Winners===<br />
Member Winners<br><br />
*[[media:SOW_GMU_DEMExplorer.doc|DEMExplorer]]<br />
*[[Continuing the Connections]] <br />
*[[media:IPhone_app_SOW_2010.doc|iPhone App Developer]]<br />
<br />
Student Winners<br><br />
*[[Beaver Creek Project]]<br />
*[[Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder Charts Project]]<br />
*[[State Tectonics Project]]<br />
*[[Spatial Cloud Project]]<br />
<br />
===2009 Winners===<br />
Member Winners<br><br />
*[[Air Twitter]]<br />
*[[World Ocean Atlas Upgrade]]<br />
*[[Stay Connected]]<br><br />
<br />
Student Winners<br><br />
*[[PanOpt project]]<br />
*[[Stay Connected]]<br />
<br />
===2008 Winners===<br />
*[[Helpr]]<br />
*[[WMS/KML Interoperability Development]]<br />
*[[Earth Exploration Toolbook Chapter on Air Quality]]</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Past_Testbed_Tasks&diff=52223Past Testbed Tasks2016-01-03T23:58:02Z<p>Cwhite: /* FUNding Friday Projects */</p>
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<div>''Back to:'' [[Products and Services]]<br />
=Testbed Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Main POC !! Title !! Summary !! ESIP Sponsoring Group !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Tom Narock || Consuming and Reusing Semantic Geoscience Data ||Geoscience data is an underrepresented component of the Linked Data cloud. It has since become a central tenet of the Semantic Web Cluster's long term plan to facilitate the publication and consumption of geoscience Linked Data as well as promote ontology reuse. This project will provide initial feedback regarding the benefits of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) in geoscience data publication and consumption by analyzing the existing ontologies from the ESIP ontology portal, creating and evaluating an ODP for direct geoscience data access, and finally comparing the ODP-based approach to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) approach to publishing, retrieving, and reasoning over large amounts of geoscience data.|| Semantic Web Cluster || 2015-11<br />
|-<br />
| Dave Jones || Addressing an Immediate Need: Establishing the Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group C-COP to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing Across Public and Private Sectors ||Address the need to connect disparate agencies and organizations for sharing real-time data during a disaster event. Will use GeoCollaborate™ to access public and private sector data sources that help operations professionals locate and be routed to open places of business that provide supplies and services during a disaster or prolonged power outage. StormCenter and The All Hazards Consortium (AHC) will lead collaborative decision-making sessions that include Fleet Response Working Group members to gather feedback for how this approach may impact their decision-making environment.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-11<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Expanding a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing ||The Disaster Lifecycle Cluster seeks to build upon the previous funded proposal that established a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to provide a platform from which to share geospatial data in a collaborative environment. By increasing the number of instances that can be used by an initial group of users/participants within the ESIP Disaster Lifecycle Cluster, two additional organizations can engage in their own testing and collaborative connections among ESIP member data providers and potential users that support disaster lifecycle and end user communities.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| John Graybeal || Evaluating Prototypes in ESIP’s Testbed Ecosystem (FastTrack)|| Responds to the ESIP Fast-Track solicitation and addresses the need for product evaluation criteria and mechanisms suitable for internal and community use. We propose an analysis which researches and consolidates existing evaluation strategies for community products, and recommends an approach suitable for use with submissions to ESIP’s Testbed process. While targeting initial criteria for products entering and exiting ESIP Prototype status, the proposal anticipates a framework that can be developed and rolled out incrementally, and later applied to Testbed products with increasing readiness levels.|| Products & Services || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Disaster Life Cycle Testbed - An ESIP Product & Service Testbed Proposal: Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (C-COP) || Start a framework for addressing recent Presidential Executive Orders (PEOs) that address the importance of building resilience in the face of a changing climate both nationally and internationally. The testbed will provide a forum by which ESIP members can not only improve their products, but also share best practices for other members considering how they too might have data products to offer to the disasters response community. || Disaster Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Eugene Chi || Connect, Share and Discover ESIP Research and Expertise using VIVO Technology || ESIP community needs a searchable database cataloguing the research and expertise of ESIP members to promote integrated and interdisciplinary research. VIVO is a semantic-web-based research and expertise discovery tool. This work is to use this technology to research and develop a testbed system for the collection and discovery of ESIP research and expertise, and includes extending the VIVO ontology to include the ESIP research and expertise ontology. || ESIP Testbed Web Support || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Marshall Ma || An entity linking service for documents and datasets in Earth and environmental sciences || (1) Engage member organizations of ESIP to use the services and to share their ontologies and vocabularies to build the knowledge base; and (2) Design, build and online deployment of the service that support entity linking in Earth and environmental sciences. || Semantic Web || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || ToolMatch Service Testbed Project Proposal to Expand Community Engagement || In order to make further progress on the viability and robustness of the ToolMatch service, much more instance data needs to be added to the knowledge store .... Testing the service by means of an online hackathon should also allow the service to be known more broadly... In-depth analysis of the types of data collection, visualization tools, and technologies used by these data catalogs and registries. || ToolMatch - Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/7288 ToolMatch Service Testbed Project] || Address two use cases by developing out The ToolMatch service - 1) that its difficult to know what tools can be used on a dataset, and 2) the converse; it is difficult to know what datasets a tool is capable of working upon. The ToolMatch service will have, at its foundation, a simple ontology and set of rules that will describe what kinds of tools work with what kinds of datasets. For both use cases, a simple user interface for user interaction, and a simple RESTful web service for use by applications and data portals, will give the client access to the ToolMatch knowledge base with the same goal of matching tools with data. || Semantic Web Cluster, Energy & Climate Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|-<br />
| Michael Huhns, Line Pouchard || [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7772 Evaluating the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation] || Many organizations, groups, and individual scientists are developing ontologies to specify the semantics of their domains of interest in environmental sciences. The ontologies are useful, but largely exist in isolation. There are major benefits to be obtained by relating the ontologies to each other and reconcile their differing specification languages. The objective of our effort is to develop a semi‐automated means for curating ontologies and reconciling their representations. The result will be greatly improved accessibility and usability of the ontologies, which will help to accelerate research in environmental sciences. || Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=FUNding Friday Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Winter Meeting Poster Node !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Sean Barberie (student award) || HumanHAB || HumanHAB is an exploratory project to explore what data sets and statistical indicators may better represent the nuanced impressions that people have about these complicated human habitats. Some potential indicators that will be explored are: walkability and public transit, local-businesses versus chains, and correlation exceptions... This project is highly exploratory, and the methods and relevant indicators will change and develop with the project. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Brandon Whitehead (student award) || Semantic models for the ESIP community || ...Semantic matching of orthogonal facets of the ESIP community could provide some semblance of an enhanced search (and perhaps visualization component) along with an understanding of where the community has been (conceptually) versus where it may be going. More broadly, the proposal aims to capture the emergent structures, patterns, or clusters of information prevalent in within the community. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Sarah Ramdeen (student award) || Stewardship of physical data, Use case and community engagement || ESIP supports a wide variety of work related to earth science information. One prominent group within ESIP is the Data Stewardship Committee... Given the overwhelming activities the Data Stewardship Committee is working on, there is a need to explore an ESIP cluster to focus on this narrow subset and to act as a leader among this community. The project will develop a use case describing the existing issues related to stewardship of physical data and work on building connections between these diverse communities. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Sophie Hou (student award) || Roadmap for the Next Generation Data Management Training Modules || From 2011-2103, ESIP partnered with NOAA and the Data Conservancy to produce the current version of the “ESIP Data Management for Scientists Short Course”. To understand the current needs for data management training and to build effective training resources, the Committee would like to assess the current landscape Data Management Training (DMT) resources. This project will contribute to the Committee’s roadmap as well as determining potential collaborators for the ESIP Short Course. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Soren Scott (full award) || A Github Badging System || Github badges provide a quick and visual way to indicate build status, code coverage or participation in crowdfunding opportunities. There is a desire in the ESIP community to acknowledge participation in ESIP collaborations without requiring (or creating the expectation) that a project repository be hosted under the ESIP Federation Github organization... This project proposes a system of badges that can be included in a project’s README documentation as a simple branding activity. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Wade Bishop (full award) || Harvesting Information Partnerships for Geospatial data Education and Outreach (HIPGEO) || The HIPGEO project will create a potential partner directory to grow ESIP institutional membership. This list combined with existing members also provides a useful sampling frame for job analyses to inform the earth data science curriculum. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Shelley E. Olds (full award) || Interactive Interface To Explore Natural Hazards And Vulnerability In Coastal Communities || Along the coast of the Pacific Northwest a massive earthquake could occur at anytime. Residents and visitors often aren’t familiar with how to prepare or respond. In this project, an interactive map will provide an interface to explore hazards and vulnerability data available for the coastal Pacific Northwest.|| TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Bruce Caron, Adam Shepherd || Working Group Syndicated Content Tool || Similarly focused working groups across organizations such as ESIP, Research Data Alliance (RDA) and EarthCube (EC) could share content from their respective online website workspaces through a syndicated RSS feed for display on the other related working group websites. Coincidentally, all of these sites run on the Drupal platform, for which, the EOSDIS group developed code, or Drupal module, that syndicates content across multiuple Drupal sites – the Earth Data Federated Content Tool (ED-FCT). || TBD || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kaijian Xu || Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories || This project provides a new framework for a highly expressive, descriptive annotation of multimedia content like images, video, etc. in scientific repositories, using a language structure that is inspired by word classes (e.g. nouns, verbs, etc.) in everyday (“natural”) languages. Such a framework would be used to capture and represent rich, semantic annotations about what objects and features are present within the scene, the interactions between them, as well as further describe such objects and interactions. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7864 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kelly Monteleone || Converting mb-system Files in Windows and Apple || Mb-system is a unix based program for multibeam sonar (Bathymetry) data. Mb-system was supported by NOAA from 2002 to 2004. It does not work in windows and is complicated to install and use. Goal: Create a one click installer that will install Cygwin, mb-system, and supporting files on a windows system. And pull out a python wrapper for Apple and non-cygwin installation. This will provide a GUI to export the data in xyz, ascii, and GeoTIFF. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7760 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kevin Dobbs || Leveraging the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that American emergency response agencies can utilize aquaponics systems after a disaster event has occurred in any region. It is imperative that the aquaponics systems be suited for the region based on climate and population and that the people of the area are taught how to use and maintain the systems. Through the use of technologies such as Esri ArcMap, Worldview, iRODS, ect. geospatial data from a variety of DAACs will be used to pre-plan for a case study on a particular region. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7871 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kyle Nelson || Enhancing and Educating with the WxSat Mobile App || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was designed and presented to promote the idea of building upon the successful WxSat app (iOS and Android) that allows users to view global visible, infrared and water vapor satellite data on mobile devices. Current products are viewable in black and white but color enhanced imagery can allow for ease of identification of key weather features. Satellite imagery is becoming more prevalent with ease of access online and is being displayed increasingly often on local and national weather segments. To enhance the understanding of the all who view satellite data, an educational tutorial will be created with case studies for all three imagery types. Meteorological phenomena will be identified through annotated still and animated images to provide a conceptual model for the user to apply when viewing satellite imagery in real time via the WxSat app or another source. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7860 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Lee Hyokyung || HDFCRAFT – Making Earth Data Fun! || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that NASA HDF/HDF-EOS data products can be used for Minecraft game. Minecraft stores its world maps in Anvil file format that has similar characteristics that HDF has. By converting NASA HDF data into Minecraft map, kids and educators can play with NASA Earth Data easily in 3D. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7742 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Matt Ferrito || ToolMatch Extension || The ToolMatch project was based upon the idea of semantic matching of data collections and tools that could be used with those data collections. Specifically, two use cases were developed for the service: 1. Search for the tools that can be used with a given data collection, and then find out what the tool can do with the data collection. 2. Search for collections that can be used with their tool, and capture information about what the data user would like to be able to do with their data. The poster created and presented at the 2014 ESIP Summer Meeting was based upon the idea of an extension of the second use case. This extension involves the semantic matching of data collection content with applicable tools. This matching is stricter than than matching based upon information about the data collection, but the use case itself is broader in scope. Ex: Given rainfall or topology measurements, determine which tools within a hyrdologoical model can be used with the data content. This will allow the appropriate tools within the model to be used with the matching data collection content. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7735 || Summer 2014<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= ESIP Testbed Task Archive =<br />
Below is an archive of past Testbed activities with a short description for each. <br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Additional Links<br />
|-<br />
| Yeuchen Chi || Expert Skills Database || The Federation collectively includes an exceptionally wide range of expertise among its participating members. These expert skills of Federation members will be categorized in a knowledge base and offered as a service. We use the master ESIP email list of over 700 names and Drupal tools to enable any member to associate their name to a skill and associated expertise level. Currently, the skill list consists of 60 information technology (IT) skills, but members can add additional categories. A GUI enables users to search this skill list by multiple criteria. Ultimate Benefit: Promotion of expert skills available within the Federation. || http://www.esipfed.org/expert<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Unique Data Identifiers || The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent identifier schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship. These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles as well as inventory nodes in data archives and must include representations for versions of the entity being identified. Many identifier options have been proposed for different kinds of data, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination. For example, two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating distinctions between them that may not be addressed adequately by identifier schemes used for typical "published" items such as books and journals. Last year's activity included a recommendation on identifier schemes to use for Earth Science data, but did not address the implementation issues that arise with the identifier schemes considered. The next Task for this work is to examine several different kinds of Federal datasets, assign identifiers from up to nine identifier schemes considered in the previously mentioned paper, evaluate and compare the implementation implications and other practical considerations associated with the use of each identifier scheme applied, and develop recommendations. Practical considerations may include the need to integrate with other metadata schemes such as ISO, and application to data citation formats and practices. <br />
Ultimate Benefit: Permanent, unique names for Federation data products and recommendations for practice based on testbed experience.<br />
|| TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Zhipeng Gui, Qunying Huang, Kai Liu, Jizhe Xia || Semantic Registration of Data and Services || The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts. The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings. Ultimate Benefit: Better classification and discovery of specialized Federation products and services || http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Application-Specific Portals || The Air Quality Working Group has been developing an inventory of air quality data and data services. Other GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas could benefit from a similar capability to highlight offerings from Federation members. For this task, the Air Quality has been cloned for use by other application areas. Initially, a Water portal has been developed. Ultimate Benefit: Better marketing of targeted Federation products and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Chaowei (Phil) Yang || Cloud Computing Resource Calculator || Many scientist and geospatial application providers are considering transforming their current computing infrastructure into clouds (IaaS and PaaS); however, it is a big challenge to select the most suitable cloud platforms and configuration solutions for the cloud novices and even for experienced cloud users. The Cloud Computing Resource Calculator meets this need by providing an advisory tool for: 1) Helping cloud novices understand the basic concepts and potential applications of cloud computing providers, services and technologies; 2) Assisting cloud computing early adopters to easily and effectively select the best solutions based on their unique application requirements; and 3) Periodically collecting/updating the mainstream cloud platforms’ information and build an expert system and database.|| http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/1244<br />
|-<br />
| Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Zhipeng Gui, Min Sun, Chaowei Yang || Data and information Quality || An automatic classification/annotation system that assesses, monitors, and accurately reports on the quality of ESIP data and services. The project sought to include: (1) a quality model and classification engine that established a set of quality metrics for data and services. The engine will automatically derive the quality of ESIP products and services, (2) work on metadata quality which is not usually addressed, and (3) accounting feedback from users to help rate quality of data and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Christine White || Open Search and Discovery || The Discovery cluster provides a medium for Federation members to coordinate on development, deployment, and creation of interoperable specifications for Discovery services such as OpenSearch, DataCasting, and ServiceCasting. The initial vision of the Discovery Testbed was to support the following items:<br />
* Setup validation for registration of ESIP services<br />
* Encourage the ESIP Community to register their services<br />
* Provide some form of a service cast of registered services<br />
* Chaining together of data and services, e.g., exploring data and services mapping, brokering<br />
The Esri Geoportal Server was used in this case to provide such an interface. || [[media:StateOfTheArt_ESIP_Discovery_Testbed-20120307rev1.pdf]], http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_Testbed_Work_Plan, http://23.23.211.222:8080/geoportal<br />
|-<br />
| Greg Janee and Nancy Hoebelheinrich || Data Stewardship ||The datasets to be addressed will include a relatively simple image collection and a second containing granule-level data objects such as a longtime series from multiple sensors/satellites. The project tasks include:(1) Preparing, transforming and performing quality control tasks on the metadata for each dataset in a storage environment that can be queried, and appended to add the identifiers from each scheme to each entity in the two datasets,(2) Map the existing metadata for each dataset into the metadata requirements for each identifier scheme for the purposes of identification and citation, (3) Track and discuss the implementation issues associated with each task per the questions previously identified by the Data Stewardship & Preservation cluster (see the initial list on the ESIP wiki at: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Implementation_Issues_to_be_addressed ), and others as they arise, (4) Bring implementation issues to the Data Stewardship cluster as needed for discussion and resolution/decision, (5) Develop list of practical considerations for each identifier scheme, and (6) develop draft set of best practices for discussion at future ESIP Federation meetings. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Eric Rozell, Tom Narock || Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics || The ability to discover the technical competencies of other researchers in the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) community can help in the discovery of collaborations. In addition to collaboration discovery, social network information can be used to analyze trends in the field, which will help project managers identify irrelevant, well-established, and emerging technologies and specifications. This information will help keep projects focused on the technologies and standards that are actually being used, making them more useful to the ESSI community. This problem was addressed with a solution involving two components: a pipeline for generating structured data from AGU-ESSI abstracts and ESIP member information, and an API and Web application for accessing the generated data.|| http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Linked_Open_Research_Data_for_Earth_and_Space_Science_Informatics<br />
|-<br />
|Jerry Yun Pan, Nigel Banks||Re-usable Metadata Editor||Develop a generic, reusable software system to facilitate the support for multiple metadata standards and their variations. The tool will be flexible and reusable for multiple metadata standards, and allows an administrator to design and tailor the metadata authoring tool/editor according to the targeted metadata schema without writing new code. The core of the tool suite consists of two parts: (1) a designing tool for "super" users who are responsible for designing the metadata editors, and (2) a rendering engine that makes use of a pre-made metadata editor definition. The designing tool defines a metadata editor based on user inputs and saves the definition for reuse. The rendering engine makes use of the definitions to facilitate metadata authoring and editing. The "editor-of-editors" is schema driven. The design tool allows for the selection of a subset of a whole schema (a "profile") to form an editor, or the selection of an extension of a schema. The editor definitions can be exported and shared among multiple installations. Ultimate Benefit: A general purpose metadata authoring and editing tool that is easily shareable across organizations. The code is open source for free use.|| TBD<br />
|}</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Past_Testbed_Tasks&diff=52213Past Testbed Tasks2015-12-25T18:41:51Z<p>Cwhite: /* Testbed Projects */</p>
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=Testbed Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Main POC !! Title !! Summary !! ESIP Sponsoring Group !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Tom Narock || Consuming and Reusing Semantic Geoscience Data ||Geoscience data is an underrepresented component of the Linked Data cloud. It has since become a central tenet of the Semantic Web Cluster's long term plan to facilitate the publication and consumption of geoscience Linked Data as well as promote ontology reuse. This project will provide initial feedback regarding the benefits of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) in geoscience data publication and consumption by analyzing the existing ontologies from the ESIP ontology portal, creating and evaluating an ODP for direct geoscience data access, and finally comparing the ODP-based approach to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) approach to publishing, retrieving, and reasoning over large amounts of geoscience data.|| Semantic Web Cluster || 2015-11<br />
|-<br />
| Dave Jones || Addressing an Immediate Need: Establishing the Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group C-COP to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing Across Public and Private Sectors ||Address the need to connect disparate agencies and organizations for sharing real-time data during a disaster event. Will use GeoCollaborate™ to access public and private sector data sources that help operations professionals locate and be routed to open places of business that provide supplies and services during a disaster or prolonged power outage. StormCenter and The All Hazards Consortium (AHC) will lead collaborative decision-making sessions that include Fleet Response Working Group members to gather feedback for how this approach may impact their decision-making environment.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-11<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Expanding a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing ||The Disaster Lifecycle Cluster seeks to build upon the previous funded proposal that established a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to provide a platform from which to share geospatial data in a collaborative environment. By increasing the number of instances that can be used by an initial group of users/participants within the ESIP Disaster Lifecycle Cluster, two additional organizations can engage in their own testing and collaborative connections among ESIP member data providers and potential users that support disaster lifecycle and end user communities.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| John Graybeal || Evaluating Prototypes in ESIP’s Testbed Ecosystem (FastTrack)|| Responds to the ESIP Fast-Track solicitation and addresses the need for product evaluation criteria and mechanisms suitable for internal and community use. We propose an analysis which researches and consolidates existing evaluation strategies for community products, and recommends an approach suitable for use with submissions to ESIP’s Testbed process. While targeting initial criteria for products entering and exiting ESIP Prototype status, the proposal anticipates a framework that can be developed and rolled out incrementally, and later applied to Testbed products with increasing readiness levels.|| Products & Services || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Disaster Life Cycle Testbed - An ESIP Product & Service Testbed Proposal: Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (C-COP) || Start a framework for addressing recent Presidential Executive Orders (PEOs) that address the importance of building resilience in the face of a changing climate both nationally and internationally. The testbed will provide a forum by which ESIP members can not only improve their products, but also share best practices for other members considering how they too might have data products to offer to the disasters response community. || Disaster Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Eugene Chi || Connect, Share and Discover ESIP Research and Expertise using VIVO Technology || ESIP community needs a searchable database cataloguing the research and expertise of ESIP members to promote integrated and interdisciplinary research. VIVO is a semantic-web-based research and expertise discovery tool. This work is to use this technology to research and develop a testbed system for the collection and discovery of ESIP research and expertise, and includes extending the VIVO ontology to include the ESIP research and expertise ontology. || ESIP Testbed Web Support || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Marshall Ma || An entity linking service for documents and datasets in Earth and environmental sciences || (1) Engage member organizations of ESIP to use the services and to share their ontologies and vocabularies to build the knowledge base; and (2) Design, build and online deployment of the service that support entity linking in Earth and environmental sciences. || Semantic Web || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || ToolMatch Service Testbed Project Proposal to Expand Community Engagement || In order to make further progress on the viability and robustness of the ToolMatch service, much more instance data needs to be added to the knowledge store .... Testing the service by means of an online hackathon should also allow the service to be known more broadly... In-depth analysis of the types of data collection, visualization tools, and technologies used by these data catalogs and registries. || ToolMatch - Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/7288 ToolMatch Service Testbed Project] || Address two use cases by developing out The ToolMatch service - 1) that its difficult to know what tools can be used on a dataset, and 2) the converse; it is difficult to know what datasets a tool is capable of working upon. The ToolMatch service will have, at its foundation, a simple ontology and set of rules that will describe what kinds of tools work with what kinds of datasets. For both use cases, a simple user interface for user interaction, and a simple RESTful web service for use by applications and data portals, will give the client access to the ToolMatch knowledge base with the same goal of matching tools with data. || Semantic Web Cluster, Energy & Climate Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|-<br />
| Michael Huhns, Line Pouchard || [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7772 Evaluating the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation] || Many organizations, groups, and individual scientists are developing ontologies to specify the semantics of their domains of interest in environmental sciences. The ontologies are useful, but largely exist in isolation. There are major benefits to be obtained by relating the ontologies to each other and reconcile their differing specification languages. The objective of our effort is to develop a semi‐automated means for curating ontologies and reconciling their representations. The result will be greatly improved accessibility and usability of the ontologies, which will help to accelerate research in environmental sciences. || Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=FUNding Friday Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Winter Meeting Poster Node !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Sean Barberie (student award) || HumanHAB || HumanHAB is an exploratory project to explore what data sets and statistical indicators may better represent the nuanced impressions that people have about these complicated human habitats. Some potential indicators that will be explored are: walkability and public transit, local-businesses versus chains, and correlation exceptions... This project is highly exploratory, and the methods and relevant indicators will change and develop with the project. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Brandon Whitehead (student award) || Semantic models for the ESIP community || ...Semantic matching of orthogonal facets of the ESIP community could provide some semblance of an enhanced search (and perhaps visualization component) along with an understanding of where the community has been (conceptually) versus where it may be going. More broadly, the proposal aims to capture the emergent structures, patterns, or clusters of information prevalent in within the community. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Sarah Ramdeen (student award) || Stewardship of physical data, Use case and community engagement || ESIP supports a wide variety of work related to earth science information. One prominent group within ESIP is the Data Stewardship Committee... Given the overwhelming activities the Data Stewardship Committee is working on, there is a need to explore an ESIP cluster to focus on this narrow subset and to act as a leader among this community. The project will develop a use case describing the existing issues related to stewardship of physical data and work on building connections between these diverse communities. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Sophie Hou (student award) || Roadmap for the Next Generation Data Management Training Modules || From 2011-2103, ESIP partnered with NOAA and the Data Conservancy to produce the current version of the “ESIP Data Management for Scientists Short Course”. To understand the current needs for data management training and to build effective training resources, the Committee would like to assess the current landscape Data Management Training (DMT) resources. This project will contribute to the Committee’s roadmap as well as determining potential collaborators for the ESIP Short Course. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Soren Scott (full award) || A Github Badging System || Github badges provide a quick and visual way to indicate build status, code coverage or participation in crowdfunding opportunities. There is a desire in the ESIP community to acknowledge participation in ESIP collaborations without requiring (or creating the expectation) that a project repository be hosted under the ESIP Federation Github organization... This project proposes a system of badges that can be included in a project’s README documentation as a simple branding activity. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Wade Bishop (full award) || Harvesting Information Partnerships for Geospatial data Education and Outreach (HIPGEO) || The HIPGEO project will create a potential partner directory to grow ESIP institutional membership. This list combined with existing members also provides a useful sampling frame for job analyses to inform the earth data science curriculum. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Shelley Olds (full award) || Title || Summary || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Bruce Caron, Adam Shepherd || Working Group Syndicated Content Tool || Similarly focused working groups across organizations such as ESIP, Research Data Alliance (RDA) and EarthCube (EC) could share content from their respective online website workspaces through a syndicated RSS feed for display on the other related working group websites. Coincidentally, all of these sites run on the Drupal platform, for which, the EOSDIS group developed code, or Drupal module, that syndicates content across multiuple Drupal sites – the Earth Data Federated Content Tool (ED-FCT). || TBD || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kaijian Xu || Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories || This project provides a new framework for a highly expressive, descriptive annotation of multimedia content like images, video, etc. in scientific repositories, using a language structure that is inspired by word classes (e.g. nouns, verbs, etc.) in everyday (“natural”) languages. Such a framework would be used to capture and represent rich, semantic annotations about what objects and features are present within the scene, the interactions between them, as well as further describe such objects and interactions. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7864 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kelly Monteleone || Converting mb-system Files in Windows and Apple || Mb-system is a unix based program for multibeam sonar (Bathymetry) data. Mb-system was supported by NOAA from 2002 to 2004. It does not work in windows and is complicated to install and use. Goal: Create a one click installer that will install Cygwin, mb-system, and supporting files on a windows system. And pull out a python wrapper for Apple and non-cygwin installation. This will provide a GUI to export the data in xyz, ascii, and GeoTIFF. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7760 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kevin Dobbs || Leveraging the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that American emergency response agencies can utilize aquaponics systems after a disaster event has occurred in any region. It is imperative that the aquaponics systems be suited for the region based on climate and population and that the people of the area are taught how to use and maintain the systems. Through the use of technologies such as Esri ArcMap, Worldview, iRODS, ect. geospatial data from a variety of DAACs will be used to pre-plan for a case study on a particular region. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7871 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kyle Nelson || Enhancing and Educating with the WxSat Mobile App || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was designed and presented to promote the idea of building upon the successful WxSat app (iOS and Android) that allows users to view global visible, infrared and water vapor satellite data on mobile devices. Current products are viewable in black and white but color enhanced imagery can allow for ease of identification of key weather features. Satellite imagery is becoming more prevalent with ease of access online and is being displayed increasingly often on local and national weather segments. To enhance the understanding of the all who view satellite data, an educational tutorial will be created with case studies for all three imagery types. Meteorological phenomena will be identified through annotated still and animated images to provide a conceptual model for the user to apply when viewing satellite imagery in real time via the WxSat app or another source. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7860 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Lee Hyokyung || HDFCRAFT – Making Earth Data Fun! || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that NASA HDF/HDF-EOS data products can be used for Minecraft game. Minecraft stores its world maps in Anvil file format that has similar characteristics that HDF has. By converting NASA HDF data into Minecraft map, kids and educators can play with NASA Earth Data easily in 3D. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7742 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Matt Ferrito || ToolMatch Extension || The ToolMatch project was based upon the idea of semantic matching of data collections and tools that could be used with those data collections. Specifically, two use cases were developed for the service: 1. Search for the tools that can be used with a given data collection, and then find out what the tool can do with the data collection. 2. Search for collections that can be used with their tool, and capture information about what the data user would like to be able to do with their data. The poster created and presented at the 2014 ESIP Summer Meeting was based upon the idea of an extension of the second use case. This extension involves the semantic matching of data collection content with applicable tools. This matching is stricter than than matching based upon information about the data collection, but the use case itself is broader in scope. Ex: Given rainfall or topology measurements, determine which tools within a hyrdologoical model can be used with the data content. This will allow the appropriate tools within the model to be used with the matching data collection content. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7735 || Summer 2014<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= ESIP Testbed Task Archive =<br />
Below is an archive of past Testbed activities with a short description for each. <br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Additional Links<br />
|-<br />
| Yeuchen Chi || Expert Skills Database || The Federation collectively includes an exceptionally wide range of expertise among its participating members. These expert skills of Federation members will be categorized in a knowledge base and offered as a service. We use the master ESIP email list of over 700 names and Drupal tools to enable any member to associate their name to a skill and associated expertise level. Currently, the skill list consists of 60 information technology (IT) skills, but members can add additional categories. A GUI enables users to search this skill list by multiple criteria. Ultimate Benefit: Promotion of expert skills available within the Federation. || http://www.esipfed.org/expert<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Unique Data Identifiers || The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent identifier schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship. These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles as well as inventory nodes in data archives and must include representations for versions of the entity being identified. Many identifier options have been proposed for different kinds of data, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination. For example, two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating distinctions between them that may not be addressed adequately by identifier schemes used for typical "published" items such as books and journals. Last year's activity included a recommendation on identifier schemes to use for Earth Science data, but did not address the implementation issues that arise with the identifier schemes considered. The next Task for this work is to examine several different kinds of Federal datasets, assign identifiers from up to nine identifier schemes considered in the previously mentioned paper, evaluate and compare the implementation implications and other practical considerations associated with the use of each identifier scheme applied, and develop recommendations. Practical considerations may include the need to integrate with other metadata schemes such as ISO, and application to data citation formats and practices. <br />
Ultimate Benefit: Permanent, unique names for Federation data products and recommendations for practice based on testbed experience.<br />
|| TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Zhipeng Gui, Qunying Huang, Kai Liu, Jizhe Xia || Semantic Registration of Data and Services || The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts. The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings. Ultimate Benefit: Better classification and discovery of specialized Federation products and services || http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Application-Specific Portals || The Air Quality Working Group has been developing an inventory of air quality data and data services. Other GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas could benefit from a similar capability to highlight offerings from Federation members. For this task, the Air Quality has been cloned for use by other application areas. Initially, a Water portal has been developed. Ultimate Benefit: Better marketing of targeted Federation products and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Chaowei (Phil) Yang || Cloud Computing Resource Calculator || Many scientist and geospatial application providers are considering transforming their current computing infrastructure into clouds (IaaS and PaaS); however, it is a big challenge to select the most suitable cloud platforms and configuration solutions for the cloud novices and even for experienced cloud users. The Cloud Computing Resource Calculator meets this need by providing an advisory tool for: 1) Helping cloud novices understand the basic concepts and potential applications of cloud computing providers, services and technologies; 2) Assisting cloud computing early adopters to easily and effectively select the best solutions based on their unique application requirements; and 3) Periodically collecting/updating the mainstream cloud platforms’ information and build an expert system and database.|| http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/1244<br />
|-<br />
| Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Zhipeng Gui, Min Sun, Chaowei Yang || Data and information Quality || An automatic classification/annotation system that assesses, monitors, and accurately reports on the quality of ESIP data and services. The project sought to include: (1) a quality model and classification engine that established a set of quality metrics for data and services. The engine will automatically derive the quality of ESIP products and services, (2) work on metadata quality which is not usually addressed, and (3) accounting feedback from users to help rate quality of data and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Christine White || Open Search and Discovery || The Discovery cluster provides a medium for Federation members to coordinate on development, deployment, and creation of interoperable specifications for Discovery services such as OpenSearch, DataCasting, and ServiceCasting. The initial vision of the Discovery Testbed was to support the following items:<br />
* Setup validation for registration of ESIP services<br />
* Encourage the ESIP Community to register their services<br />
* Provide some form of a service cast of registered services<br />
* Chaining together of data and services, e.g., exploring data and services mapping, brokering<br />
The Esri Geoportal Server was used in this case to provide such an interface. || [[media:StateOfTheArt_ESIP_Discovery_Testbed-20120307rev1.pdf]], http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_Testbed_Work_Plan, http://23.23.211.222:8080/geoportal<br />
|-<br />
| Greg Janee and Nancy Hoebelheinrich || Data Stewardship ||The datasets to be addressed will include a relatively simple image collection and a second containing granule-level data objects such as a longtime series from multiple sensors/satellites. The project tasks include:(1) Preparing, transforming and performing quality control tasks on the metadata for each dataset in a storage environment that can be queried, and appended to add the identifiers from each scheme to each entity in the two datasets,(2) Map the existing metadata for each dataset into the metadata requirements for each identifier scheme for the purposes of identification and citation, (3) Track and discuss the implementation issues associated with each task per the questions previously identified by the Data Stewardship & Preservation cluster (see the initial list on the ESIP wiki at: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Implementation_Issues_to_be_addressed ), and others as they arise, (4) Bring implementation issues to the Data Stewardship cluster as needed for discussion and resolution/decision, (5) Develop list of practical considerations for each identifier scheme, and (6) develop draft set of best practices for discussion at future ESIP Federation meetings. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Eric Rozell, Tom Narock || Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics || The ability to discover the technical competencies of other researchers in the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) community can help in the discovery of collaborations. In addition to collaboration discovery, social network information can be used to analyze trends in the field, which will help project managers identify irrelevant, well-established, and emerging technologies and specifications. This information will help keep projects focused on the technologies and standards that are actually being used, making them more useful to the ESSI community. This problem was addressed with a solution involving two components: a pipeline for generating structured data from AGU-ESSI abstracts and ESIP member information, and an API and Web application for accessing the generated data.|| http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Linked_Open_Research_Data_for_Earth_and_Space_Science_Informatics<br />
|-<br />
|Jerry Yun Pan, Nigel Banks||Re-usable Metadata Editor||Develop a generic, reusable software system to facilitate the support for multiple metadata standards and their variations. The tool will be flexible and reusable for multiple metadata standards, and allows an administrator to design and tailor the metadata authoring tool/editor according to the targeted metadata schema without writing new code. The core of the tool suite consists of two parts: (1) a designing tool for "super" users who are responsible for designing the metadata editors, and (2) a rendering engine that makes use of a pre-made metadata editor definition. The designing tool defines a metadata editor based on user inputs and saves the definition for reuse. The rendering engine makes use of the definitions to facilitate metadata authoring and editing. The "editor-of-editors" is schema driven. The design tool allows for the selection of a subset of a whole schema (a "profile") to form an editor, or the selection of an extension of a schema. The editor definitions can be exported and shared among multiple installations. Ultimate Benefit: A general purpose metadata authoring and editing tool that is easily shareable across organizations. The code is open source for free use.|| TBD<br />
|}</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=P%26S_Telecon_-_November_17,_2015&diff=52212P&S Telecon - November 17, 20152015-12-25T18:36:05Z<p>Cwhite: Created page with "==Check-in regarding Testbed RFP== * Q&A for both proposers or for proposal evaluators * Received a proposal from the Disaster Cluster - TCB, when do you want to review this t..."</p>
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<div>==Check-in regarding Testbed RFP==<br />
* Q&A for both proposers or for proposal evaluators<br />
* Received a proposal from the Disaster Cluster - TCB, when do you want to review this together?<br />
<br />
==Update on ESIP Testbed and EarthCube Testbed collaboration==<br />
* Possible integration with hosting/testing environment<br />
* Collaboration on Evaluation Framework<br />
** ESIP evaluate EarthCube projects<br />
** EarthCube provide feedback on feedback mechanisms<br />
** Work together on best practices<br />
<br />
==Update on AIST Testbed Evaluation Framework happenings==<br />
* 2015-11-17 deadline for submitting final evaluation<br />
* How people are reporting: <br />
** ESIP does the "smoothing and polishing" before report goes to NASA; so, team provides the heavy content for the evaluation, ESIP finalizes (this feels like a great best practice)<br />
** Evaluators then review the post-processing before it goes to NASA<br />
** Evaluator styles were all different, as was the TRL's - this is valuable for determining best practices<br />
* ESIP may get another run of funding from AIST - how to do this a second time<br />
* Also, an idea of evaluation not just in technology/web service, but to other realms - e.g., disaster preparedness, plans<br />
<br />
==NDS update (bsportal.nationaldataservice.org)==<br />
* ESIP has a partnership with NDS<br />
* Possible hosting provision for Testbed projects <br />
** Current model we have in place - where TCB identifies projects that might be of interest and shares with NDS to review - is OK<br />
<br />
==Winter Meeting Plan==<br />
We’ve got a number of great sessions in the works; lets collaborate on ideas & efforts<br />
* Action: Each session send out a "what we learned" from our session, next step - notes and braindump<br />
** Working google doc folks can post ideas as they think of them<br />
** On the go, collect our thoughts - review on Feb 2016 P&S<br />
** How to capture feedback from Twitter/Tweets sent out by folks at conference? <br />
** What should our hashtag be? #Testbed? Alternatively if they want to be specific, #ESIPTestbed #AISTTestbed<br />
** Automate dumping tweets into spreadsheet</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=P%26S_Telecon_-_December_21,2015&diff=52211P&S Telecon - December 21,20152015-12-25T18:30:20Z<p>Cwhite: /* Applying TEF for Incubation Testbed Projects */</p>
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<div>==Applying TEF for Incubation Testbed Projects==<br />
'''Discussion Question:'''Testbed Evaluation Framework (TEF) process worked well for AIST evaluations, but was very structured to achieve an evaluation of the AIST project Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs). For other projects coming through the Testbed - e.g., the regular incubation projects that ESIP funds every 6 months - can we leverage the TEF as a space to support feedback and infusion opps for those projects?<br />
<br />
First project that this may apply to: the recently funded "". Met with them early today and brainstormed (see [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OwQPE7QNbY4-LUAfY8lMhsulBPFwua-BMte7vrx0dac/edit?pref=2&pli=1 this google doc] for those notes).<br />
<br />
===Role of P&S for Incubation projects in the past===<br />
* P&S (Testbed Configuration Board) decided which projects are funded and how they are advertised - i.e., posters at twice-yearly meetings, mid-year demo on P&S or IT&I call, etc.<br />
* This discussion comes to how we evaluate a project once it is funded – do we bring a third party as part of the Testbed Incubation process?<br />
<br />
===Financially Supporting Evaluation===<br />
* Cost is an issue: asking awarded projects to do an evaluation on top of their proposed work can cost more – can be funded separately, or can be small effort.<br />
* External evaluators are funded separately.<br />
<br />
===Deciding what Projects are Candidates for Evaluation===<br />
* Some projects may not want to move along the trajectory and be evaluated - that is OK.<br />
* Perhaps there is a Process for Applying for Evaluation?<br />
* Perhaps a goal for P&S next year could be to formalize: <br />
** What are the requirements that an ESIP project would be evaluated against?<br />
** We are funding projects more than one time – when we are at funding at say round 3, we can impose an evaluation? <br />
** Or a project suggests itself to be evaluated?<br />
<br />
===ESIP “Stamp of Approval”===<br />
* Evaluation part of this "approved/evaluated by ESIP" idea? Datasets, information quality<br />
* Do we retain the AIST framework or not?<br />
<br />
===Transparency===<br />
What to do about transparency when the evaluation does not go well? It’s a public process. Criteria needs to be very clear – folks need to know what they are getting into, and evaluation may not always yield good news.<br />
<br />
==Larger role for P&S members in TEF Process==<br />
Important topic here - not sure what this looks like, let's think about this when we are together next month at the Winter Meeting.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=P%26S_Telecon_-_December_21,2015&diff=52210P&S Telecon - December 21,20152015-12-25T18:29:55Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>==Applying TEF for Incubation Testbed Projects==<br />
'''Discussion Question:'''Testbed Evaluation Framework (TEF) process worked well for AIST evaluations, but was very structured to achieve an evaluation of the AIST project Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs). For other projects coming through the Testbed - e.g., the regular incubation projects that ESIP funds every 6 months - can we leverage the TEF as a space to support feedback and infusion opps for those projects?<br />
<br />
First project that this may apply to: the recently funded "". Met with them early today and brainstormed (see [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OwQPE7QNbY4-LUAfY8lMhsulBPFwua-BMte7vrx0dac/edit?pref=2&pli=1 this google doc] for those notes).<br />
<br />
===Role of P&S for Incubation projects in the past===<br />
* P&S (Testbed Configuration Board) decided which projects are funded and how they are advertised - i.e., posters at twice-yearly meetings, mid-year demo on P&S or IT&I call, etc.<br />
* This discussion comes to how we evaluate a project once it is funded – do we bring a third party as part of the Testbed Incubation process?<br />
<br />
===Financially Supporting Evaluation===<br />
* Cost is an issue: asking awarded projects to do an evaluation on top of their proposed work can cost more – can be funded separately, or can be small effort.<br />
* External evaluators are funded separately.<br />
<br />
===Deciding what Projects are Candidates for Evaluation===<br />
* Some projects may not want to move along the trajectory and be evaluated - that is OK.<br />
* Perhaps there is a Process for Applying for Evaluation?<br />
* Perhaps a goal for P&S next year could be to formalize: <br />
** What are the requirements that an ESIP project would be evaluated against?<br />
** We are funding projects more than one time – when we are at funding at say round 3, we can impose an evaluation? <br />
** Or a project suggests itself to be evaluated?<br />
<br />
===ESIP “Stamp of Approval”===<br />
* Evaluation part of this "approved/evaluated by ESIP" idea? Datasets, information quality<br />
* Do we retain the AIST framework or not?<br />
<br />
===Transparency===<br />
What to do about transparency when the evaluation does not go well? It’s a public process. Criteria needs to be very clear – folks need to know what they are getting into, and evaluation may not always yield good news.<br />
<br />
==Larger role for P&S members in TEF Process==<br />
Important topic here - not sure what this looks like, let's think about this when we are together next month at the Winter Meeting.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=P%26S_Telecon_-_December_21,2015&diff=52209P&S Telecon - December 21,20152015-12-25T18:25:21Z<p>Cwhite: Created page with "==Applying TEF for Incubation Testbed Projects== '''Discussion Question:'''Testbed Evaluation Framework (TEF) process worked well for AIST evaluations, but was very structured..."</p>
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<div>==Applying TEF for Incubation Testbed Projects==<br />
'''Discussion Question:'''Testbed Evaluation Framework (TEF) process worked well for AIST evaluations, but was very structured to achieve an evaluation of the AIST project Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs). For other projects coming through the Testbed - e.g., the regular incubation projects that ESIP funds every 6 months - can we leverage the TEF as a space to support feedback and infusion opps for those projects?<br />
<br />
First project that this may apply to: the recently funded "". Met with them early today and brainstormed (see [this google doc||https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OwQPE7QNbY4-LUAfY8lMhsulBPFwua-BMte7vrx0dac/edit?pref=2&pli=1] for those notes).<br />
<br />
===Role of P&S for Incubation projects in the past===<br />
P&S (Testbed Configuration Board) decided which projects are funded and how they are advertised - i.e., posters at twice-yearly meetings, mid-year demo on P&S or IT&I call, etc.<br />
<br />
This discussion comes to how we evaluate a project once it is funded – do we bring a third party as part of the Testbed Incubation process?<br />
<br />
Cost is an issue: asking awarded projects to do an evaluation on top of their proposed work can cost more – can be funded separately, or can be small effort.<br />
<br />
External evaluators are funded separately.<br />
<br />
Some projects may not want to move along the trajectory and be evaluated - that is OK.<br />
<br />
Perhaps there is a Process for Applying for Evaluation?<br />
<br />
Perhaps a goal for P&S next year could be to formalize: 1) What are the requirements that an ESIP project would be evaluated against?<br />
2) We are funding projects more than one time – when we are at funding at say round 3, we can impose an evaluation? or 3) Or perhaps a project suggests itself to be evaluated?<br />
<br />
Longer term process for ESIP “Stamp of Approval” – datasets, information quality<br />
<br />
Do we retain the AIST framework or not?<br />
<br />
What to do about transparency when the evaluation does not go well? It’s a public process. Criteria needs to be very clear – folks need to know what they are getting into, and evaluation may not always yield good news.<br />
<br />
==Larger role for P&S members in TEF Process==<br />
Important topic here - not sure what this looks like, let's think about this when we are together next month at the Winter Meeting.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=P%26S_Telecon_Minutes&diff=52208P&S Telecon Minutes2015-12-25T18:08:16Z<p>Cwhite: /* Meeting & Telecon Minutes: */</p>
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<div>==Meeting & Telecon Minutes: ==<br />
'''2015'''<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - December 21,2015]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - November 17, 2015]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - October 20, 2015]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - May 19, 2015]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - January 20, 2015]]<br />
'''Older'''<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - April 15, 2014]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - March 18, 2014]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - February 18, 2014]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - February 11, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - December 10, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - September 10, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - August 13, 2012]]<br />
:[[Testbed Session at ESIP Summer Meeting, July 18, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - July 9, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - June 11, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - May 14, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - April 9, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - March 12, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - February 13, 2012]]<br />
:[[Testbed Session at ESIP Winter Meeting, Jan 6, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - December 12, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Montly Telecon - November 7, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - October 3, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - August 17, 2011]]<br />
:[[Summer_2011_meeting_session_agenda | P&S Breakout Meeting at the 2011 Summer Meeting, July 14, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly June 15, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly May 18, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Apr 20, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Mar 16, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Nov 19, 2010]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Oct 15, 2010]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Mar 19, 2010]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Feb 19, 2010]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Dec 4, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Aug 21, 2009]]<br />
:[[ServiceExchange Meeting Jul 9, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Jun 19, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly May 15, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Apr 17, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Mar 20, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Feb 24, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly August 29, 2006]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly May 23, 2006]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly April 25, 2006]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly March 28, 2006]]<br />
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Back to [[Products and Services]]</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Past_Testbed_Tasks&diff=52207Past Testbed Tasks2015-12-25T17:48:54Z<p>Cwhite: /* Testbed Projects */</p>
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=Testbed Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
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! Main POC !! Title !! Summary !! ESIP Sponsoring Group !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Tom Narock || Expanding a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing ||Geoscience data is an underrepresented component of the Linked Data cloud. It has since become a central tenet of the Semantic Web Cluster's long term plan to facilitate the publication and consumption of geoscience Linked Data as well as promote ontology reuse. This project will provide initial feedback regarding the benefits of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) in geoscience data publication and consumption by analyzing the existing ontologies from the ESIP ontology portal, creating and evaluating an ODP for direct geoscience data access, and finally comparing the ODP-based approach to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) approach to publishing, retrieving, and reasoning over large amounts of geoscience data.|| Semantic Web Cluster || 2015-11<br />
|-<br />
| Dave Jones || Addressing an Immediate Need: Establishing the Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group C-COP to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing Across Public and Private Sectors ||Address the need to connect disparate agencies and organizations for sharing real-time data during a disaster event. Will use GeoCollaborate™ to access public and private sector data sources that help operations professionals locate and be routed to open places of business that provide supplies and services during a disaster or prolonged power outage. StormCenter and The All Hazards Consortium (AHC) will lead collaborative decision-making sessions that include Fleet Response Working Group members to gather feedback for how this approach may impact their decision-making environment.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-11<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Expanding a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing ||The Disaster Lifecycle Cluster seeks to build upon the previous funded proposal that established a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to provide a platform from which to share geospatial data in a collaborative environment. By increasing the number of instances that can be used by an initial group of users/participants within the ESIP Disaster Lifecycle Cluster, two additional organizations can engage in their own testing and collaborative connections among ESIP member data providers and potential users that support disaster lifecycle and end user communities.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| John Graybeal || Evaluating Prototypes in ESIP’s Testbed Ecosystem (FastTrack)|| Responds to the ESIP Fast-Track solicitation and addresses the need for product evaluation criteria and mechanisms suitable for internal and community use. We propose an analysis which researches and consolidates existing evaluation strategies for community products, and recommends an approach suitable for use with submissions to ESIP’s Testbed process. While targeting initial criteria for products entering and exiting ESIP Prototype status, the proposal anticipates a framework that can be developed and rolled out incrementally, and later applied to Testbed products with increasing readiness levels.|| Products & Services || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Disaster Life Cycle Testbed - An ESIP Product & Service Testbed Proposal: Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (C-COP) || Start a framework for addressing recent Presidential Executive Orders (PEOs) that address the importance of building resilience in the face of a changing climate both nationally and internationally. The testbed will provide a forum by which ESIP members can not only improve their products, but also share best practices for other members considering how they too might have data products to offer to the disasters response community. || Disaster Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Eugene Chi || Connect, Share and Discover ESIP Research and Expertise using VIVO Technology || ESIP community needs a searchable database cataloguing the research and expertise of ESIP members to promote integrated and interdisciplinary research. VIVO is a semantic-web-based research and expertise discovery tool. This work is to use this technology to research and develop a testbed system for the collection and discovery of ESIP research and expertise, and includes extending the VIVO ontology to include the ESIP research and expertise ontology. || ESIP Testbed Web Support || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Marshall Ma || An entity linking service for documents and datasets in Earth and environmental sciences || (1) Engage member organizations of ESIP to use the services and to share their ontologies and vocabularies to build the knowledge base; and (2) Design, build and online deployment of the service that support entity linking in Earth and environmental sciences. || Semantic Web || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || ToolMatch Service Testbed Project Proposal to Expand Community Engagement || In order to make further progress on the viability and robustness of the ToolMatch service, much more instance data needs to be added to the knowledge store .... Testing the service by means of an online hackathon should also allow the service to be known more broadly... In-depth analysis of the types of data collection, visualization tools, and technologies used by these data catalogs and registries. || ToolMatch - Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/7288 ToolMatch Service Testbed Project] || Address two use cases by developing out The ToolMatch service - 1) that its difficult to know what tools can be used on a dataset, and 2) the converse; it is difficult to know what datasets a tool is capable of working upon. The ToolMatch service will have, at its foundation, a simple ontology and set of rules that will describe what kinds of tools work with what kinds of datasets. For both use cases, a simple user interface for user interaction, and a simple RESTful web service for use by applications and data portals, will give the client access to the ToolMatch knowledge base with the same goal of matching tools with data. || Semantic Web Cluster, Energy & Climate Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|-<br />
| Michael Huhns, Line Pouchard || [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7772 Evaluating the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation] || Many organizations, groups, and individual scientists are developing ontologies to specify the semantics of their domains of interest in environmental sciences. The ontologies are useful, but largely exist in isolation. There are major benefits to be obtained by relating the ontologies to each other and reconcile their differing specification languages. The objective of our effort is to develop a semi‐automated means for curating ontologies and reconciling their representations. The result will be greatly improved accessibility and usability of the ontologies, which will help to accelerate research in environmental sciences. || Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|}<br />
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=FUNding Friday Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Winter Meeting Poster Node !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Sean Barberie (student award) || HumanHAB || HumanHAB is an exploratory project to explore what data sets and statistical indicators may better represent the nuanced impressions that people have about these complicated human habitats. Some potential indicators that will be explored are: walkability and public transit, local-businesses versus chains, and correlation exceptions... This project is highly exploratory, and the methods and relevant indicators will change and develop with the project. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Brandon Whitehead (student award) || Semantic models for the ESIP community || ...Semantic matching of orthogonal facets of the ESIP community could provide some semblance of an enhanced search (and perhaps visualization component) along with an understanding of where the community has been (conceptually) versus where it may be going. More broadly, the proposal aims to capture the emergent structures, patterns, or clusters of information prevalent in within the community. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Sarah Ramdeen (student award) || Stewardship of physical data, Use case and community engagement || ESIP supports a wide variety of work related to earth science information. One prominent group within ESIP is the Data Stewardship Committee... Given the overwhelming activities the Data Stewardship Committee is working on, there is a need to explore an ESIP cluster to focus on this narrow subset and to act as a leader among this community. The project will develop a use case describing the existing issues related to stewardship of physical data and work on building connections between these diverse communities. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Sophie Hou (student award) || Roadmap for the Next Generation Data Management Training Modules || From 2011-2103, ESIP partnered with NOAA and the Data Conservancy to produce the current version of the “ESIP Data Management for Scientists Short Course”. To understand the current needs for data management training and to build effective training resources, the Committee would like to assess the current landscape Data Management Training (DMT) resources. This project will contribute to the Committee’s roadmap as well as determining potential collaborators for the ESIP Short Course. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Soren Scott (full award) || A Github Badging System || Github badges provide a quick and visual way to indicate build status, code coverage or participation in crowdfunding opportunities. There is a desire in the ESIP community to acknowledge participation in ESIP collaborations without requiring (or creating the expectation) that a project repository be hosted under the ESIP Federation Github organization... This project proposes a system of badges that can be included in a project’s README documentation as a simple branding activity. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Wade Bishop (full award) || Harvesting Information Partnerships for Geospatial data Education and Outreach (HIPGEO) || The HIPGEO project will create a potential partner directory to grow ESIP institutional membership. This list combined with existing members also provides a useful sampling frame for job analyses to inform the earth data science curriculum. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Shelley Olds (full award) || Title || Summary || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Bruce Caron, Adam Shepherd || Working Group Syndicated Content Tool || Similarly focused working groups across organizations such as ESIP, Research Data Alliance (RDA) and EarthCube (EC) could share content from their respective online website workspaces through a syndicated RSS feed for display on the other related working group websites. Coincidentally, all of these sites run on the Drupal platform, for which, the EOSDIS group developed code, or Drupal module, that syndicates content across multiuple Drupal sites – the Earth Data Federated Content Tool (ED-FCT). || TBD || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kaijian Xu || Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories || This project provides a new framework for a highly expressive, descriptive annotation of multimedia content like images, video, etc. in scientific repositories, using a language structure that is inspired by word classes (e.g. nouns, verbs, etc.) in everyday (“natural”) languages. Such a framework would be used to capture and represent rich, semantic annotations about what objects and features are present within the scene, the interactions between them, as well as further describe such objects and interactions. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7864 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kelly Monteleone || Converting mb-system Files in Windows and Apple || Mb-system is a unix based program for multibeam sonar (Bathymetry) data. Mb-system was supported by NOAA from 2002 to 2004. It does not work in windows and is complicated to install and use. Goal: Create a one click installer that will install Cygwin, mb-system, and supporting files on a windows system. And pull out a python wrapper for Apple and non-cygwin installation. This will provide a GUI to export the data in xyz, ascii, and GeoTIFF. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7760 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kevin Dobbs || Leveraging the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that American emergency response agencies can utilize aquaponics systems after a disaster event has occurred in any region. It is imperative that the aquaponics systems be suited for the region based on climate and population and that the people of the area are taught how to use and maintain the systems. Through the use of technologies such as Esri ArcMap, Worldview, iRODS, ect. geospatial data from a variety of DAACs will be used to pre-plan for a case study on a particular region. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7871 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kyle Nelson || Enhancing and Educating with the WxSat Mobile App || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was designed and presented to promote the idea of building upon the successful WxSat app (iOS and Android) that allows users to view global visible, infrared and water vapor satellite data on mobile devices. Current products are viewable in black and white but color enhanced imagery can allow for ease of identification of key weather features. Satellite imagery is becoming more prevalent with ease of access online and is being displayed increasingly often on local and national weather segments. To enhance the understanding of the all who view satellite data, an educational tutorial will be created with case studies for all three imagery types. Meteorological phenomena will be identified through annotated still and animated images to provide a conceptual model for the user to apply when viewing satellite imagery in real time via the WxSat app or another source. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7860 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Lee Hyokyung || HDFCRAFT – Making Earth Data Fun! || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that NASA HDF/HDF-EOS data products can be used for Minecraft game. Minecraft stores its world maps in Anvil file format that has similar characteristics that HDF has. By converting NASA HDF data into Minecraft map, kids and educators can play with NASA Earth Data easily in 3D. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7742 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Matt Ferrito || ToolMatch Extension || The ToolMatch project was based upon the idea of semantic matching of data collections and tools that could be used with those data collections. Specifically, two use cases were developed for the service: 1. Search for the tools that can be used with a given data collection, and then find out what the tool can do with the data collection. 2. Search for collections that can be used with their tool, and capture information about what the data user would like to be able to do with their data. The poster created and presented at the 2014 ESIP Summer Meeting was based upon the idea of an extension of the second use case. This extension involves the semantic matching of data collection content with applicable tools. This matching is stricter than than matching based upon information about the data collection, but the use case itself is broader in scope. Ex: Given rainfall or topology measurements, determine which tools within a hyrdologoical model can be used with the data content. This will allow the appropriate tools within the model to be used with the matching data collection content. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7735 || Summer 2014<br />
|}<br />
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= ESIP Testbed Task Archive =<br />
Below is an archive of past Testbed activities with a short description for each. <br />
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| Yeuchen Chi || Expert Skills Database || The Federation collectively includes an exceptionally wide range of expertise among its participating members. These expert skills of Federation members will be categorized in a knowledge base and offered as a service. We use the master ESIP email list of over 700 names and Drupal tools to enable any member to associate their name to a skill and associated expertise level. Currently, the skill list consists of 60 information technology (IT) skills, but members can add additional categories. A GUI enables users to search this skill list by multiple criteria. Ultimate Benefit: Promotion of expert skills available within the Federation. || http://www.esipfed.org/expert<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Unique Data Identifiers || The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent identifier schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship. These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles as well as inventory nodes in data archives and must include representations for versions of the entity being identified. Many identifier options have been proposed for different kinds of data, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination. For example, two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating distinctions between them that may not be addressed adequately by identifier schemes used for typical "published" items such as books and journals. Last year's activity included a recommendation on identifier schemes to use for Earth Science data, but did not address the implementation issues that arise with the identifier schemes considered. The next Task for this work is to examine several different kinds of Federal datasets, assign identifiers from up to nine identifier schemes considered in the previously mentioned paper, evaluate and compare the implementation implications and other practical considerations associated with the use of each identifier scheme applied, and develop recommendations. Practical considerations may include the need to integrate with other metadata schemes such as ISO, and application to data citation formats and practices. <br />
Ultimate Benefit: Permanent, unique names for Federation data products and recommendations for practice based on testbed experience.<br />
|| TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Zhipeng Gui, Qunying Huang, Kai Liu, Jizhe Xia || Semantic Registration of Data and Services || The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts. The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings. Ultimate Benefit: Better classification and discovery of specialized Federation products and services || http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Application-Specific Portals || The Air Quality Working Group has been developing an inventory of air quality data and data services. Other GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas could benefit from a similar capability to highlight offerings from Federation members. For this task, the Air Quality has been cloned for use by other application areas. Initially, a Water portal has been developed. Ultimate Benefit: Better marketing of targeted Federation products and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Chaowei (Phil) Yang || Cloud Computing Resource Calculator || Many scientist and geospatial application providers are considering transforming their current computing infrastructure into clouds (IaaS and PaaS); however, it is a big challenge to select the most suitable cloud platforms and configuration solutions for the cloud novices and even for experienced cloud users. The Cloud Computing Resource Calculator meets this need by providing an advisory tool for: 1) Helping cloud novices understand the basic concepts and potential applications of cloud computing providers, services and technologies; 2) Assisting cloud computing early adopters to easily and effectively select the best solutions based on their unique application requirements; and 3) Periodically collecting/updating the mainstream cloud platforms’ information and build an expert system and database.|| http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/1244<br />
|-<br />
| Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Zhipeng Gui, Min Sun, Chaowei Yang || Data and information Quality || An automatic classification/annotation system that assesses, monitors, and accurately reports on the quality of ESIP data and services. The project sought to include: (1) a quality model and classification engine that established a set of quality metrics for data and services. The engine will automatically derive the quality of ESIP products and services, (2) work on metadata quality which is not usually addressed, and (3) accounting feedback from users to help rate quality of data and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Christine White || Open Search and Discovery || The Discovery cluster provides a medium for Federation members to coordinate on development, deployment, and creation of interoperable specifications for Discovery services such as OpenSearch, DataCasting, and ServiceCasting. The initial vision of the Discovery Testbed was to support the following items:<br />
* Setup validation for registration of ESIP services<br />
* Encourage the ESIP Community to register their services<br />
* Provide some form of a service cast of registered services<br />
* Chaining together of data and services, e.g., exploring data and services mapping, brokering<br />
The Esri Geoportal Server was used in this case to provide such an interface. || [[media:StateOfTheArt_ESIP_Discovery_Testbed-20120307rev1.pdf]], http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_Testbed_Work_Plan, http://23.23.211.222:8080/geoportal<br />
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| Greg Janee and Nancy Hoebelheinrich || Data Stewardship ||The datasets to be addressed will include a relatively simple image collection and a second containing granule-level data objects such as a longtime series from multiple sensors/satellites. The project tasks include:(1) Preparing, transforming and performing quality control tasks on the metadata for each dataset in a storage environment that can be queried, and appended to add the identifiers from each scheme to each entity in the two datasets,(2) Map the existing metadata for each dataset into the metadata requirements for each identifier scheme for the purposes of identification and citation, (3) Track and discuss the implementation issues associated with each task per the questions previously identified by the Data Stewardship & Preservation cluster (see the initial list on the ESIP wiki at: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Implementation_Issues_to_be_addressed ), and others as they arise, (4) Bring implementation issues to the Data Stewardship cluster as needed for discussion and resolution/decision, (5) Develop list of practical considerations for each identifier scheme, and (6) develop draft set of best practices for discussion at future ESIP Federation meetings. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Eric Rozell, Tom Narock || Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics || The ability to discover the technical competencies of other researchers in the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) community can help in the discovery of collaborations. In addition to collaboration discovery, social network information can be used to analyze trends in the field, which will help project managers identify irrelevant, well-established, and emerging technologies and specifications. This information will help keep projects focused on the technologies and standards that are actually being used, making them more useful to the ESSI community. This problem was addressed with a solution involving two components: a pipeline for generating structured data from AGU-ESSI abstracts and ESIP member information, and an API and Web application for accessing the generated data.|| http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Linked_Open_Research_Data_for_Earth_and_Space_Science_Informatics<br />
|-<br />
|Jerry Yun Pan, Nigel Banks||Re-usable Metadata Editor||Develop a generic, reusable software system to facilitate the support for multiple metadata standards and their variations. The tool will be flexible and reusable for multiple metadata standards, and allows an administrator to design and tailor the metadata authoring tool/editor according to the targeted metadata schema without writing new code. The core of the tool suite consists of two parts: (1) a designing tool for "super" users who are responsible for designing the metadata editors, and (2) a rendering engine that makes use of a pre-made metadata editor definition. The designing tool defines a metadata editor based on user inputs and saves the definition for reuse. The rendering engine makes use of the definitions to facilitate metadata authoring and editing. The "editor-of-editors" is schema driven. The design tool allows for the selection of a subset of a whole schema (a "profile") to form an editor, or the selection of an extension of a schema. The editor definitions can be exported and shared among multiple installations. Ultimate Benefit: A general purpose metadata authoring and editing tool that is easily shareable across organizations. The code is open source for free use.|| TBD<br />
|}</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=CEW_VP_Statement&diff=51997CEW VP Statement2015-12-04T06:38:21Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>''Back to [[Nomination Committee/2016 Nominations and Ballot|2016 Nominations and Ballot]]''<br />
===Christine White, Technical Advisor, Esri===<br />
I'm honored to be nominated for Vice President of ESIP. As we’re all aware, the creation, management, and sharing of Earth Science information is critical to affect positive change for the challenges our world faces. To collaborate with each other - the leading informatics scientists and specialists in our country (and as ESIP grows, perhaps the world) - is some of the highest work we get to do.<br />
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Serving the past two years as the [[Products and Services|Products & Services Committee]] Chair has been an excellent experience, largely because of the interesting projects we awarded and the inspiring people who contributed to the committee’s activities. With the help of many of you, the committee supported innovative projects in the [[Testbed|ESIP Testbed]], encouraged agile teamwork in member and student projects through FUNding Friday, and contributed to the re-envisioning of the Testbed such that ESIP could facilitate technology evaluation and infusion. There is more growth ahead for Products & Services, and we look forward to seeing it thrive!<br />
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====Goals & Vision====<br />
Strongly supporting and promoting ESIP Committee and Cluster endeavors like the Products & Services Testbed is one of my goals in the coming year as Vice President. A closely related goal is to carry forward the objectives of the [[2015-2020 Strategic Plan|ESIP 2015-2020 Strategic Plan]], cooperating with ESIP Leadership so the plan can succeed. <br />
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My vision is to '''strengthen connections between ESIP members, our research and experiences, and our external communities so the collaborations through ESIP result in the best earth science information of our day'''. And let’s create a space to grow great friendships while doing so.<br />
<br />
====My Career Life, and ESIP====<br />
I bring the best of my past experience to this opportunity - in the geospatial software world, I've worked as a consultant, project manager, product manager, and now a technical advisor. In these roles, ''teamwork'' has been by far the most important contributor to success - with openness, dedication, and creativity also important factors. Seeing solutions that aren't the obvious ones, developing plans and asking for critique, and continuously growing my knowledge of geospatial science challenges and approaches is part of my everyday work. I share what I learn from my ESIP colleagues with my Esri colleagues and vice versa - the idea is to build connections so scientists can do their important research with software supporting them the best way.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=CEW_VP_Statement&diff=51996CEW VP Statement2015-12-04T06:34:45Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>===Christine White, Technical Advisor, Esri===<br />
I'm honored to be nominated for Vice President of ESIP. As we’re all aware, the creation, management, and sharing of Earth Science information is critical to affect positive change for the challenges our world faces. To collaborate with each other - the leading informatics scientists and specialists in our country (and as ESIP grows, perhaps the world) - is some of the highest work we get to do.<br />
<br />
Serving the past two years as the [[Products and Services|Products & Services Committee]] Chair has been an excellent experience, largely because of the interesting projects we awarded and the inspiring people who contributed to the committee’s activities. With the help of many of you, the committee supported innovative projects in the [[Testbed|ESIP Testbed]], encouraged agile teamwork in member and student projects through FUNding Friday, and contributed to the re-envisioning of the Testbed such that ESIP could facilitate technology evaluation and infusion. There is more growth ahead for Products & Services, and we look forward to seeing it thrive!<br />
<br />
====Goals & Vision====<br />
Strongly supporting and promoting ESIP Committee and Cluster endeavors like the Products & Services Testbed is one of my goals in the coming year as Vice President. A closely related goal is to carry forward the objectives of the [[2015-2020 Strategic Plan|ESIP 2015-2020 Strategic Plan]], cooperating with ESIP Leadership so the plan can succeed. <br />
<br />
My vision is to '''strengthen connections between ESIP members, our research and experiences, and our external communities so the collaborations through ESIP result in the best earth science information of our day'''. And let’s create a space to grow great friendships while doing so.<br />
<br />
====My Career Life, and ESIP====<br />
I bring the best of my past experience to this opportunity - in the geospatial software world, I've worked as a consultant, project manager, product manager, and now a technical advisor. In these roles, ''teamwork'' has been by far the most important contributor to success - with openness, dedication, and creativity also important factors. Seeing solutions that aren't the obvious ones, developing plans and asking for critique, and continuously growing my knowledge of geospatial science challenges and approaches is part of my everyday work. I share what I learn from my ESIP colleagues with my Esri colleagues and vice versa - the idea is to build connections so scientists can do their important research with software supporting them the best way.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=CEW_VP_Statement&diff=51995CEW VP Statement2015-12-04T06:06:21Z<p>Cwhite: Created page with "===Christine White, Technical Advisor, Esri=== I'm honored to be nominated for Vice President of ESIP. As we’re all aware, the creation, management, and sharing of Earth Sci..."</p>
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<div>===Christine White, Technical Advisor, Esri===<br />
I'm honored to be nominated for Vice President of ESIP. As we’re all aware, the creation, management, and sharing of Earth Science information is critical to affect positive change for the challenges our world faces. To collaborate with each other - the leading informatics scientists and specialists in our country (and as ESIP grows, perhaps the world) - is some of the highest work we get to do.<br />
<br />
Serving the past two years as the [[Products and Services|Products & Services Committee]] Chair has been an excellent experience, largely because of the interesting projects we awarded and the inspiring people who contributed to the committee’s activities. With the help of many of you, the committee supported innovative projects in the [[Testbed|ESIP Testbed]], encouraged agile teamwork in member and student projects through FUNding Friday, and contributed to the re-envisioning of the Testbed such that ESIP could facilitate technology evaluation and infusion. There is more growth ahead for Products & Services, and we look forward to seeing it thrive!<br />
<br />
Strongly supporting and promoting ESIP Committee and Cluster endeavors like the Products & Services Testbed is one of my goals in the coming year as Vice President. A closely related goal is to carry forward the objectives of the [[2015-2020 Strategic Plan|ESIP 2015-2020 Strategic Plan]], cooperating with ESIP Leadership so the plan can succeed. <br />
<br />
My vision is to strengthen connections between ESIP members, our research and experiences, and our external communities so the collaborations through ESIP result in the best earth science information of our day. And let’s create a space to grow great friendships while doing so.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Nomination_Committee/2016_Nominations_and_Ballot&diff=51994Nomination Committee/2016 Nominations and Ballot2015-12-04T05:57:14Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>Each year, the ESIP Federation conducts elections of its officers, committee chairs and Administrative Committee members. We are at the time of year when we begin accepting nominations for the following positions which are elected Federation-wide: (multiple nominees for a position are welcome)<br />
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Nominations coming from the Nominating Committee are indicated by "NomCom" and do not require a second. Incumbents in a position are indicated by (I) following their name. Nominations will be accepted through '''November 4, 2015'''. Send nominations (self-nomination is encouraged) to nominations@esipfed.org. <br />
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Candidates are invited to submit statements about their candidacy to be posted on this site.<br />
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(Click on each Position to view its description and Committee's role)<br />
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! width="30%" scope="col" | NOMINEE<br />
! width="30%" scope="col" | NOMINATED BY (1st & 2nd) <br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[President]]</p> <br />
| Emily Law ([[EL Statement]])<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Vice President]]</p> <br />
| Christine White ([[CEW VP Statement|CEW Statement]])<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[C&B Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Constitution and Bylaws Committee Chair]]</p> <br />
| Ken Keiser (I)<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan=1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[FiCom Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Finance and Appropriations Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Bill Teng (I)<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Partnership Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Partnership Committee Chair]]</p> <br />
| Bob Arko<br><br />
Mike Daniels<br><br />
Danie Kinkade<br />
| NomCom<br><br />
NomCom<br><br />
NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Data Stewardship Chair| Data Stewardship Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Justin Goldstein (I)<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Ed Chair| Education Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| LuAnn Dahlman (I)<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[IT&I Chair| Information Technology & Interoperability Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Ethan Davis (I)<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[P&S Chair| Products and Services Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Line Pouchard <br><br />
Soren Scott<br />
| NomCom<br><br />
NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[FES Board| Three year representative to Foundation Board (2)]]</p><br />
|''Update 12/1/2015: Due to the changing relationship between ESIP and FES Board, no ESIP representatives will be elected this cycle'' <br />
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Nominations will be accepted through '''November 4, 2015'''. Send nominations (self-nomination is encouraged) to nominations@esipfed.org. Candidates are invited to submit statements about their candidacy to be posted on this site. <br />
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In addition, each ESIP Type elects representatives to each Administrative Committee. The current ESIP Type Representatives will be contacting their respective caucuses to begin accepting nominations for representatives to the following Committees:<br />
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::'''Executive Committee (ESIP Type Representative)'''<br />
::'''Constitution and Bylaws Committee'''<br />
::'''Finance and Appropriations Committee'''<br />
::'''Partnership Committee'''<br />
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:The President, Vice-President, Committee Chairs and Type Representatives serve on the ESIP Federation Executive Committee. <br />
:The ESIP assembly votes on at-large ESIP representatives to serve on the Board of the Foundation for Earth Science.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Nomination_Committee/2016_Nominations_and_Ballot&diff=51993Nomination Committee/2016 Nominations and Ballot2015-12-04T05:55:25Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>Each year, the ESIP Federation conducts elections of its officers, committee chairs and Administrative Committee members. We are at the time of year when we begin accepting nominations for the following positions which are elected Federation-wide: (multiple nominees for a position are welcome)<br />
<br />
Nominations coming from the Nominating Committee are indicated by "NomCom" and do not require a second. Incumbents in a position are indicated by (I) following their name. Nominations will be accepted through '''November 4, 2015'''. Send nominations (self-nomination is encouraged) to nominations@esipfed.org. <br />
<br />
Candidates are invited to submit statements about their candidacy to be posted on this site.<br />
<br />
(Click on each Position to view its description and Committee's role)<br />
{| width="800" border="1"<br />
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! width="40%" scope="col" | POSITION<br />
! width="30%" scope="col" | NOMINEE<br />
! width="30%" scope="col" | NOMINATED BY (1st & 2nd) <br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[President]]</p> <br />
| Emily Law ([[EL Statement]])<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Vice President]]</p> <br />
| Christine White ([[CEW Statement]])<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[C&B Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Constitution and Bylaws Committee Chair]]</p> <br />
| Ken Keiser (I)<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan=1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[FiCom Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Finance and Appropriations Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Bill Teng (I)<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Partnership Chair & 3 Members selected to represent each ESIP Type I, II, III| Partnership Committee Chair]]</p> <br />
| Bob Arko<br><br />
Mike Daniels<br><br />
Danie Kinkade<br />
| NomCom<br><br />
NomCom<br><br />
NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Data Stewardship Chair| Data Stewardship Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Justin Goldstein (I)<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[Ed Chair| Education Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| LuAnn Dahlman (I)<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[IT&I Chair| Information Technology & Interoperability Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Ethan Davis (I)<br />
| NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[P&S Chair| Products and Services Committee Chair]]</p><br />
| Line Pouchard <br><br />
Soren Scott<br />
| NomCom<br><br />
NomCom<br />
|- <br />
! rowspan="1" align="left" scope="row" | <p>[[FES Board| Three year representative to Foundation Board (2)]]</p><br />
|''Update 12/1/2015: Due to the changing relationship between ESIP and FES Board, no ESIP representatives will be elected this cycle'' <br />
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Nominations will be accepted through '''November 4, 2015'''. Send nominations (self-nomination is encouraged) to nominations@esipfed.org. Candidates are invited to submit statements about their candidacy to be posted on this site. <br />
<br />
In addition, each ESIP Type elects representatives to each Administrative Committee. The current ESIP Type Representatives will be contacting their respective caucuses to begin accepting nominations for representatives to the following Committees:<br />
<br />
::'''Executive Committee (ESIP Type Representative)'''<br />
::'''Constitution and Bylaws Committee'''<br />
::'''Finance and Appropriations Committee'''<br />
::'''Partnership Committee'''<br />
<br />
<hr><br />
:The President, Vice-President, Committee Chairs and Type Representatives serve on the ESIP Federation Executive Committee. <br />
:The ESIP assembly votes on at-large ESIP representatives to serve on the Board of the Foundation for Earth Science.</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=P%26S_Telecon_-_October_20,_2015&diff=51592P&S Telecon - October 20, 20152015-10-20T19:30:43Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>== November RFP Q&A ==<br />
Opportunity to ask questions about the [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/8752 November 2015 Testbed RFP]<br />
* Thanks all for your help preparing the RFP!<br />
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== Updates on the Testbed Evaluation Framework ==<br />
Update provided by Annie B. <br />
* We're 3 weeks into the evaluation. <br />
* 3 Types of evaluation teams:<br />
** Domain scientists - federal sciences<br />
** ESIP-centric team<br />
** Private industry, academic, and a mix<br />
* All approaching it differently:<br />
** ARIA-MH, Hook's project<br />
*** Issue with software access and proprietary imagery<br />
*** So evaluation has to happen through Telecons <br />
*** Evaluators look at software and tech that is not at their fingertips<br />
*** Learning how to do that - group call yesterday. Team used the OSF wiki to brainstorm on how to approach this sort of online evaluation<br />
*** Will have two 2-hour long calls with the PI to come up with a Test Plan with the PI<br />
*** And then another call with the PI to execute the test plan, then evaluate if needs an additional call<br />
** Collaborative Workbench, Manil's project<br />
*** Using Slack to collaborate about evaluation<br />
*** Will meet with PI to go through<br />
*** Backend of evaluation hosted on AWS, for the 6 months of the evaluations<br />
** Fusion of Hurricane Models and Observations: Developing the Technology to Improve the Forecasts<br />
*** All evaluators have in-depth knowledge, hit the ground running<br />
== Winter Meeting Planning Sessions ==<br />
Continued planning for P&S and Testbed Winter Meeting activities - Last year's agenda here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yLY2964NlwJY_S98vlc2hRe6Ar1cthVMG_dr78BdVtU/edit#gid=0<br />
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Idea: A block of 3 sessions, maybe a full morn/afternoon<br />
* Start with "What is the Testbed/P&S" session - Christine to Submit<br />
* Then TEF/AIST session - Annie already Submitted<br />
* Other Testbeds/collaboration session - Emily and Ken to Submit<br />
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===What is the Testbed Session===<br />
* Fun, interactive overview of P&S, and Testbed/FUNding Friday<br />
* Introduce TEF, but not in-depth<br />
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=== Testbed Evaluation Framework/AIST Testbed Session ===<br />
* Overview, Working Meeting<br />
* Evaluators report out<br />
* Bring in potential other projects, and evaluators<br />
* Talk about next round too - when, how? <br />
* Sit down with the group, talk through what worked, what didn't work, and how we can refine this process<br />
* Best Practices - for example:<br />
** Regardless of TRL, the PI & the Evaluator should meet the first week to go through the technologies<br />
*** Tech Overview Call<br />
*** Lack of documentation from PI - understand what they are trying to do, vs what evaluator thinks they are trying to do<br />
*** "What are the goals of this?"<br />
*** "If this is your goal, then this is what we see as best practice to accomplish the goal"<br />
* What evaluators get out of it:<br />
** 5K in funding and travel to the Winter Meeting to participate, and travel to AGU for the Independent Eval Session<br />
** In the future it might not be 5K b/c of fed limits on accepting salary - <br />
** Might be interesting to think about the Type relationship to the "what do you get" (i.e., Type IIIs, where the budget might be helpful)<br />
* Flexibility<br />
** Varying Access and TRL levels<br />
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=== Technology Evaluation Session: How we support evaluation, and build components to do so ===<br />
* Earth Science Community Testbeds - broader, diff. orgs that have Testbeds<br />
* Status, highlight capabilities<br />
* Conversation, see if there are collaborative opps<br />
* EarthCube Testbed & ESIP Testbed Collaboration discussion<br />
** Support '''integration''' of technologies, components and services that support EarthCube infrastructure; cloud platform, evaluation framework<br />
* RDA Testbed<br />
* OGC Testbed (?)<br />
* NDS <br />
=== Awarded Testbed Projects & FUNding Friday Projects===<br />
* Testbed:<br />
** Disaster Lifecycle - Expanding CCOP: Will be supported in Disaster Cluster sessin<br />
** John's Fast Track Project: Maybe highlight as part of AIST session?<br />
* Other Projects from November RFP that will be awarded by then - reminder to awardees that they can leverage the Winter Meeting to kick-off<br />
* FUNDing Friday Posters<br />
** Nancy to reach out to Brandon Whitehead and Sophie Hou regarding posters and session-related presentations<br />
** Soren and Christine to collaborate on reaching out to other projects<br />
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== Other logistics ==<br />
* "Templates" for projects<br />
** Scope of work template<br />
** Budget template<br />
** "Adoption" template (see nice example from Beta release of AppEEARS)<br />
* Next P&S Meetings: Nov. 17th (Tues before Thanksgiving) and Dec. 15th (before AGU). Nov. 17th OK; for December, we'll check in on Nov. call.<br />
* Timeframe for TCB to evaluate proposals: First week of December</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=P%26S_Telecon_-_October_20,_2015&diff=51591P&S Telecon - October 20, 20152015-10-20T17:36:04Z<p>Cwhite: Created page with "== November RFP Q&A == Opportunity to ask questions about the [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/8752 November 2015 Testbed RFP] == Updates on the Testbed Evaluation Framework ..."</p>
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<div>== November RFP Q&A ==<br />
Opportunity to ask questions about the [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/8752 November 2015 Testbed RFP]<br />
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== Updates on the Testbed Evaluation Framework ==<br />
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== Winter Meeting Planning Sessions ==<br />
Continued planning for P&S and Testbed Winter Meeting activities - Last year's agenda here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yLY2964NlwJY_S98vlc2hRe6Ar1cthVMG_dr78BdVtU/edit#gid=0<br />
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=== Testbed projects ===<br />
* Disaster Cluster, Fast Track<br />
* Other Projects from November RFP that will be awarded by then<br />
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=== AIST Testbed Session ===<br />
* Overview, Working Meeting<br />
* Evaluators report out<br />
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=== FUNDing Friday Posters ===<br />
* Need to send email to awardees to submit "session"? Or, encourage a session in which they should participate?<br />
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== Other logistics ==<br />
* "Templates" for projects<br />
** Scope of work template<br />
** Budget template<br />
** "Adoption" template (see nice example from Beta release of AppEEARS)<br />
* Next P&S Meetings: Nov. 24th (Tues before Thanksgiving) and Dec. 22nd (before Christmas). Do we need to adjust these?<br />
* Timeframe for TCB to evaluate proposals: First week of December</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=P%26S_Telecon_Minutes&diff=51590P&S Telecon Minutes2015-10-20T17:26:34Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>==Meeting & Telecon Minutes: ==<br />
'''2015'''<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - October 20, 2015]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - May 19, 2015]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - January 20, 2015]]<br />
'''Older'''<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - April 15, 2014]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - March 18, 2014]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - February 18, 2014]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - February 11, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - December 10, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Telecon - September 10, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - August 13, 2012]]<br />
:[[Testbed Session at ESIP Summer Meeting, July 18, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - July 9, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - June 11, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - May 14, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - April 9, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - March 12, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - February 13, 2012]]<br />
:[[Testbed Session at ESIP Winter Meeting, Jan 6, 2012]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - December 12, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Montly Telecon - November 7, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - October 3, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Telecon - August 17, 2011]]<br />
:[[Summer_2011_meeting_session_agenda | P&S Breakout Meeting at the 2011 Summer Meeting, July 14, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly June 15, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly May 18, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Apr 20, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Mar 16, 2011]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Nov 19, 2010]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Oct 15, 2010]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Mar 19, 2010]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Feb 19, 2010]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Dec 4, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Aug 21, 2009]]<br />
:[[ServiceExchange Meeting Jul 9, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Jun 19, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly May 15, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Apr 17, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Mar 20, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly Feb 24, 2009]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly August 29, 2006]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly May 23, 2006]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly April 25, 2006]]<br />
:[[P&S Monthly March 28, 2006]]<br />
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=Testbed Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
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! Main POC !! Title !! Summary !! ESIP Sponsoring Group !! Funding Cycle<br />
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| Emily Law || Expanding a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing ||The Disaster Lifecycle Cluster seeks to build upon the previous funded proposal that established a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to provide a platform from which to share geospatial data in a collaborative environment. By increasing the number of instances that can be used by an initial group of users/participants within the ESIP Disaster Lifecycle Cluster, two additional organizations can engage in their own testing and collaborative connections among ESIP member data providers and potential users that support disaster lifecycle and end user communities.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| John Graybeal || Evaluating Prototypes in ESIP’s Testbed Ecosystem (FastTrack)|| Responds to the ESIP Fast-Track solicitation and addresses the need for product evaluation criteria and mechanisms suitable for internal and community use. We propose an analysis which researches and consolidates existing evaluation strategies for community products, and recommends an approach suitable for use with submissions to ESIP’s Testbed process. While targeting initial criteria for products entering and exiting ESIP Prototype status, the proposal anticipates a framework that can be developed and rolled out incrementally, and later applied to Testbed products with increasing readiness levels.|| Products & Services || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Disaster Life Cycle Testbed - An ESIP Product & Service Testbed Proposal: Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (C-COP) || Start a framework for addressing recent Presidential Executive Orders (PEOs) that address the importance of building resilience in the face of a changing climate both nationally and internationally. The testbed will provide a forum by which ESIP members can not only improve their products, but also share best practices for other members considering how they too might have data products to offer to the disasters response community. || Disaster Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Eugene Chi || Connect, Share and Discover ESIP Research and Expertise using VIVO Technology || ESIP community needs a searchable database cataloguing the research and expertise of ESIP members to promote integrated and interdisciplinary research. VIVO is a semantic-web-based research and expertise discovery tool. This work is to use this technology to research and develop a testbed system for the collection and discovery of ESIP research and expertise, and includes extending the VIVO ontology to include the ESIP research and expertise ontology. || ESIP Testbed Web Support || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Marshall Ma || An entity linking service for documents and datasets in Earth and environmental sciences || (1) Engage member organizations of ESIP to use the services and to share their ontologies and vocabularies to build the knowledge base; and (2) Design, build and online deployment of the service that support entity linking in Earth and environmental sciences. || Semantic Web || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || ToolMatch Service Testbed Project Proposal to Expand Community Engagement || In order to make further progress on the viability and robustness of the ToolMatch service, much more instance data needs to be added to the knowledge store .... Testing the service by means of an online hackathon should also allow the service to be known more broadly... In-depth analysis of the types of data collection, visualization tools, and technologies used by these data catalogs and registries. || ToolMatch - Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/7288 ToolMatch Service Testbed Project] || Address two use cases by developing out The ToolMatch service - 1) that its difficult to know what tools can be used on a dataset, and 2) the converse; it is difficult to know what datasets a tool is capable of working upon. The ToolMatch service will have, at its foundation, a simple ontology and set of rules that will describe what kinds of tools work with what kinds of datasets. For both use cases, a simple user interface for user interaction, and a simple RESTful web service for use by applications and data portals, will give the client access to the ToolMatch knowledge base with the same goal of matching tools with data. || Semantic Web Cluster, Energy & Climate Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|-<br />
| Michael Huhns, Line Pouchard || [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7772 Evaluating the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation] || Many organizations, groups, and individual scientists are developing ontologies to specify the semantics of their domains of interest in environmental sciences. The ontologies are useful, but largely exist in isolation. There are major benefits to be obtained by relating the ontologies to each other and reconcile their differing specification languages. The objective of our effort is to develop a semi‐automated means for curating ontologies and reconciling their representations. The result will be greatly improved accessibility and usability of the ontologies, which will help to accelerate research in environmental sciences. || Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|}<br />
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=FUNding Friday Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Winter Meeting Poster Node !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Sean Barberie (student award) || HumanHAB || HumanHAB is an exploratory project to explore what data sets and statistical indicators may better represent the nuanced impressions that people have about these complicated human habitats. Some potential indicators that will be explored are: walkability and public transit, local-businesses versus chains, and correlation exceptions... This project is highly exploratory, and the methods and relevant indicators will change and develop with the project. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Brandon Whitehead (student award) || Semantic models for the ESIP community || ...Semantic matching of orthogonal facets of the ESIP community could provide some semblance of an enhanced search (and perhaps visualization component) along with an understanding of where the community has been (conceptually) versus where it may be going. More broadly, the proposal aims to capture the emergent structures, patterns, or clusters of information prevalent in within the community. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Sarah Ramdeen (student award) || Stewardship of physical data, Use case and community engagement || ESIP supports a wide variety of work related to earth science information. One prominent group within ESIP is the Data Stewardship Committee... Given the overwhelming activities the Data Stewardship Committee is working on, there is a need to explore an ESIP cluster to focus on this narrow subset and to act as a leader among this community. The project will develop a use case describing the existing issues related to stewardship of physical data and work on building connections between these diverse communities. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Sophie Hou (student award) || Roadmap for the Next Generation Data Management Training Modules || From 2011-2103, ESIP partnered with NOAA and the Data Conservancy to produce the current version of the “ESIP Data Management for Scientists Short Course”. To understand the current needs for data management training and to build effective training resources, the Committee would like to assess the current landscape Data Management Training (DMT) resources. This project will contribute to the Committee’s roadmap as well as determining potential collaborators for the ESIP Short Course. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Soren Scott (full award) || A Github Badging System || Github badges provide a quick and visual way to indicate build status, code coverage or participation in crowdfunding opportunities. There is a desire in the ESIP community to acknowledge participation in ESIP collaborations without requiring (or creating the expectation) that a project repository be hosted under the ESIP Federation Github organization... This project proposes a system of badges that can be included in a project’s README documentation as a simple branding activity. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Wade Bishop (full award) || Harvesting Information Partnerships for Geospatial data Education and Outreach (HIPGEO) || The HIPGEO project will create a potential partner directory to grow ESIP institutional membership. This list combined with existing members also provides a useful sampling frame for job analyses to inform the earth data science curriculum. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Shelley Olds (full award) || Title || Summary || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Bruce Caron, Adam Shepherd || Working Group Syndicated Content Tool || Similarly focused working groups across organizations such as ESIP, Research Data Alliance (RDA) and EarthCube (EC) could share content from their respective online website workspaces through a syndicated RSS feed for display on the other related working group websites. Coincidentally, all of these sites run on the Drupal platform, for which, the EOSDIS group developed code, or Drupal module, that syndicates content across multiuple Drupal sites – the Earth Data Federated Content Tool (ED-FCT). || TBD || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kaijian Xu || Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories || This project provides a new framework for a highly expressive, descriptive annotation of multimedia content like images, video, etc. in scientific repositories, using a language structure that is inspired by word classes (e.g. nouns, verbs, etc.) in everyday (“natural”) languages. Such a framework would be used to capture and represent rich, semantic annotations about what objects and features are present within the scene, the interactions between them, as well as further describe such objects and interactions. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7864 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kelly Monteleone || Converting mb-system Files in Windows and Apple || Mb-system is a unix based program for multibeam sonar (Bathymetry) data. Mb-system was supported by NOAA from 2002 to 2004. It does not work in windows and is complicated to install and use. Goal: Create a one click installer that will install Cygwin, mb-system, and supporting files on a windows system. And pull out a python wrapper for Apple and non-cygwin installation. This will provide a GUI to export the data in xyz, ascii, and GeoTIFF. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7760 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kevin Dobbs || Leveraging the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that American emergency response agencies can utilize aquaponics systems after a disaster event has occurred in any region. It is imperative that the aquaponics systems be suited for the region based on climate and population and that the people of the area are taught how to use and maintain the systems. Through the use of technologies such as Esri ArcMap, Worldview, iRODS, ect. geospatial data from a variety of DAACs will be used to pre-plan for a case study on a particular region. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7871 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kyle Nelson || Enhancing and Educating with the WxSat Mobile App || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was designed and presented to promote the idea of building upon the successful WxSat app (iOS and Android) that allows users to view global visible, infrared and water vapor satellite data on mobile devices. Current products are viewable in black and white but color enhanced imagery can allow for ease of identification of key weather features. Satellite imagery is becoming more prevalent with ease of access online and is being displayed increasingly often on local and national weather segments. To enhance the understanding of the all who view satellite data, an educational tutorial will be created with case studies for all three imagery types. Meteorological phenomena will be identified through annotated still and animated images to provide a conceptual model for the user to apply when viewing satellite imagery in real time via the WxSat app or another source. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7860 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Lee Hyokyung || HDFCRAFT – Making Earth Data Fun! || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that NASA HDF/HDF-EOS data products can be used for Minecraft game. Minecraft stores its world maps in Anvil file format that has similar characteristics that HDF has. By converting NASA HDF data into Minecraft map, kids and educators can play with NASA Earth Data easily in 3D. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7742 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Matt Ferrito || ToolMatch Extension || The ToolMatch project was based upon the idea of semantic matching of data collections and tools that could be used with those data collections. Specifically, two use cases were developed for the service: 1. Search for the tools that can be used with a given data collection, and then find out what the tool can do with the data collection. 2. Search for collections that can be used with their tool, and capture information about what the data user would like to be able to do with their data. The poster created and presented at the 2014 ESIP Summer Meeting was based upon the idea of an extension of the second use case. This extension involves the semantic matching of data collection content with applicable tools. This matching is stricter than than matching based upon information about the data collection, but the use case itself is broader in scope. Ex: Given rainfall or topology measurements, determine which tools within a hyrdologoical model can be used with the data content. This will allow the appropriate tools within the model to be used with the matching data collection content. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7735 || Summer 2014<br />
|}<br />
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= ESIP Testbed Task Archive =<br />
Below is an archive of past Testbed activities with a short description for each. <br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Additional Links<br />
|-<br />
| Yeuchen Chi || Expert Skills Database || The Federation collectively includes an exceptionally wide range of expertise among its participating members. These expert skills of Federation members will be categorized in a knowledge base and offered as a service. We use the master ESIP email list of over 700 names and Drupal tools to enable any member to associate their name to a skill and associated expertise level. Currently, the skill list consists of 60 information technology (IT) skills, but members can add additional categories. A GUI enables users to search this skill list by multiple criteria. Ultimate Benefit: Promotion of expert skills available within the Federation. || http://www.esipfed.org/expert<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Unique Data Identifiers || The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent identifier schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship. These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles as well as inventory nodes in data archives and must include representations for versions of the entity being identified. Many identifier options have been proposed for different kinds of data, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination. For example, two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating distinctions between them that may not be addressed adequately by identifier schemes used for typical "published" items such as books and journals. Last year's activity included a recommendation on identifier schemes to use for Earth Science data, but did not address the implementation issues that arise with the identifier schemes considered. The next Task for this work is to examine several different kinds of Federal datasets, assign identifiers from up to nine identifier schemes considered in the previously mentioned paper, evaluate and compare the implementation implications and other practical considerations associated with the use of each identifier scheme applied, and develop recommendations. Practical considerations may include the need to integrate with other metadata schemes such as ISO, and application to data citation formats and practices. <br />
Ultimate Benefit: Permanent, unique names for Federation data products and recommendations for practice based on testbed experience.<br />
|| TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Zhipeng Gui, Qunying Huang, Kai Liu, Jizhe Xia || Semantic Registration of Data and Services || The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts. The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings. Ultimate Benefit: Better classification and discovery of specialized Federation products and services || http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Application-Specific Portals || The Air Quality Working Group has been developing an inventory of air quality data and data services. Other GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas could benefit from a similar capability to highlight offerings from Federation members. For this task, the Air Quality has been cloned for use by other application areas. Initially, a Water portal has been developed. Ultimate Benefit: Better marketing of targeted Federation products and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Chaowei (Phil) Yang || Cloud Computing Resource Calculator || Many scientist and geospatial application providers are considering transforming their current computing infrastructure into clouds (IaaS and PaaS); however, it is a big challenge to select the most suitable cloud platforms and configuration solutions for the cloud novices and even for experienced cloud users. The Cloud Computing Resource Calculator meets this need by providing an advisory tool for: 1) Helping cloud novices understand the basic concepts and potential applications of cloud computing providers, services and technologies; 2) Assisting cloud computing early adopters to easily and effectively select the best solutions based on their unique application requirements; and 3) Periodically collecting/updating the mainstream cloud platforms’ information and build an expert system and database.|| http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/1244<br />
|-<br />
| Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Zhipeng Gui, Min Sun, Chaowei Yang || Data and information Quality || An automatic classification/annotation system that assesses, monitors, and accurately reports on the quality of ESIP data and services. The project sought to include: (1) a quality model and classification engine that established a set of quality metrics for data and services. The engine will automatically derive the quality of ESIP products and services, (2) work on metadata quality which is not usually addressed, and (3) accounting feedback from users to help rate quality of data and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Christine White || Open Search and Discovery || The Discovery cluster provides a medium for Federation members to coordinate on development, deployment, and creation of interoperable specifications for Discovery services such as OpenSearch, DataCasting, and ServiceCasting. The initial vision of the Discovery Testbed was to support the following items:<br />
* Setup validation for registration of ESIP services<br />
* Encourage the ESIP Community to register their services<br />
* Provide some form of a service cast of registered services<br />
* Chaining together of data and services, e.g., exploring data and services mapping, brokering<br />
The Esri Geoportal Server was used in this case to provide such an interface. || [[media:StateOfTheArt_ESIP_Discovery_Testbed-20120307rev1.pdf]], http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_Testbed_Work_Plan, http://23.23.211.222:8080/geoportal<br />
|-<br />
| Greg Janee and Nancy Hoebelheinrich || Data Stewardship ||The datasets to be addressed will include a relatively simple image collection and a second containing granule-level data objects such as a longtime series from multiple sensors/satellites. The project tasks include:(1) Preparing, transforming and performing quality control tasks on the metadata for each dataset in a storage environment that can be queried, and appended to add the identifiers from each scheme to each entity in the two datasets,(2) Map the existing metadata for each dataset into the metadata requirements for each identifier scheme for the purposes of identification and citation, (3) Track and discuss the implementation issues associated with each task per the questions previously identified by the Data Stewardship & Preservation cluster (see the initial list on the ESIP wiki at: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Implementation_Issues_to_be_addressed ), and others as they arise, (4) Bring implementation issues to the Data Stewardship cluster as needed for discussion and resolution/decision, (5) Develop list of practical considerations for each identifier scheme, and (6) develop draft set of best practices for discussion at future ESIP Federation meetings. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Eric Rozell, Tom Narock || Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics || The ability to discover the technical competencies of other researchers in the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) community can help in the discovery of collaborations. In addition to collaboration discovery, social network information can be used to analyze trends in the field, which will help project managers identify irrelevant, well-established, and emerging technologies and specifications. This information will help keep projects focused on the technologies and standards that are actually being used, making them more useful to the ESSI community. This problem was addressed with a solution involving two components: a pipeline for generating structured data from AGU-ESSI abstracts and ESIP member information, and an API and Web application for accessing the generated data.|| http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Linked_Open_Research_Data_for_Earth_and_Space_Science_Informatics<br />
|-<br />
|Jerry Yun Pan, Nigel Banks||Re-usable Metadata Editor||Develop a generic, reusable software system to facilitate the support for multiple metadata standards and their variations. The tool will be flexible and reusable for multiple metadata standards, and allows an administrator to design and tailor the metadata authoring tool/editor according to the targeted metadata schema without writing new code. The core of the tool suite consists of two parts: (1) a designing tool for "super" users who are responsible for designing the metadata editors, and (2) a rendering engine that makes use of a pre-made metadata editor definition. The designing tool defines a metadata editor based on user inputs and saves the definition for reuse. The rendering engine makes use of the definitions to facilitate metadata authoring and editing. The "editor-of-editors" is schema driven. The design tool allows for the selection of a subset of a whole schema (a "profile") to form an editor, or the selection of an extension of a schema. The editor definitions can be exported and shared among multiple installations. Ultimate Benefit: A general purpose metadata authoring and editing tool that is easily shareable across organizations. The code is open source for free use.|| TBD<br />
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=Testbed Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
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! Main POC !! Title !! Summary !! ESIP Sponsoring Group !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Expanding a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing ||The Disaster Lifecycle Cluster seeks to build upon the previous funded proposal that established a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to provide a platform from which to share geospatial data in a collaborative environment. By increasing the number of instances that can be used by an initial group of users/participants within the ESIP Disaster Lifecycle Cluster, two additional organizations can engage in their own testing and collaborative connections among ESIP member data providers and potential users that support disaster lifecycle and end user communities.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| John Graybeal || Evaluating Prototypes in ESIP’s Testbed Ecosystem (FastTrack)|| Responds to the ESIP Fast-Track solicitation and addresses the need for product evaluation criteria and mechanisms suitable for internal and community use. We propose an analysis which researches and consolidates existing evaluation strategies for community products, and recommends an approach suitable for use with submissions to ESIP’s Testbed process. While targeting initial criteria for products entering and exiting ESIP Prototype status, the proposal anticipates a framework that can be developed and rolled out incrementally, and later applied to Testbed products with increasing readiness levels.|| Products & Services || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Disaster Life Cycle Testbed - An ESIP Product & Service Testbed Proposal: Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (C-COP) || Start a framework for addressing recent Presidential Executive Orders (PEOs) that address the importance of building resilience in the face of a changing climate both nationally and internationally. The testbed will provide a forum by which ESIP members can not only improve their products, but also share best practices for other members considering how they too might have data products to offer to the disasters response community. || Disaster Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Eugene Chi || Connect, Share and Discover ESIP Research and Expertise using VIVO Technology || ESIP community needs a searchable database cataloguing the research and expertise of ESIP members to promote integrated and interdisciplinary research. VIVO is a semantic-web-based research and expertise discovery tool. This work is to use this technology to research and develop a testbed system for the collection and discovery of ESIP research and expertise, and includes extending the VIVO ontology to include the ESIP research and expertise ontology. || ESIP Testbed Web Support || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Marshall Ma || An entity linking service for documents and datasets in Earth and environmental sciences || (1) Engage member organizations of ESIP to use the services and to share their ontologies and vocabularies to build the knowledge base; and (2) Design, build and online deployment of the service that support entity linking in Earth and environmental sciences. || Semantic Web || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || ToolMatch Service Testbed Project Proposal to Expand Community Engagement || In order to make further progress on the viability and robustness of the ToolMatch service, much more instance data needs to be added to the knowledge store .... Testing the service by means of an online hackathon should also allow the service to be known more broadly... In-depth analysis of the types of data collection, visualization tools, and technologies used by these data catalogs and registries. || ToolMatch - Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/7288 ToolMatch Service Testbed Project] || Address two use cases by developing out The ToolMatch service - 1) that its difficult to know what tools can be used on a dataset, and 2) the converse; it is difficult to know what datasets a tool is capable of working upon. The ToolMatch service will have, at its foundation, a simple ontology and set of rules that will describe what kinds of tools work with what kinds of datasets. For both use cases, a simple user interface for user interaction, and a simple RESTful web service for use by applications and data portals, will give the client access to the ToolMatch knowledge base with the same goal of matching tools with data. || Semantic Web Cluster, Energy & Climate Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|-<br />
| Michael Huhns, Line Pouchard || [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7772 Evaluating the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation] || Many organizations, groups, and individual scientists are developing ontologies to specify the semantics of their domains of interest in environmental sciences. The ontologies are useful, but largely exist in isolation. There are major benefits to be obtained by relating the ontologies to each other and reconcile their differing specification languages. The objective of our effort is to develop a semi‐automated means for curating ontologies and reconciling their representations. The result will be greatly improved accessibility and usability of the ontologies, which will help to accelerate research in environmental sciences. || Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|}<br />
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=FUNding Friday Projects=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Winter Meeting Poster Node !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Sean Barberie (student award) || HumanHAB || HumanHAB is an exploratory project to explore what data sets and statistical indicators may better represent the nuanced impressions that people have about these complicated human habitats. Some potential indicators that will be explored are: walkability and public transit, local-businesses versus chains, and correlation exceptions... This project is highly exploratory, and the methods and relevant indicators will change and develop with the project. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Brandon Whitehead (student award) || Semantic models for the ESIP community || ...Semantic matching of orthogonal facets of the ESIP community could provide some semblance of an enhanced search (and perhaps visualization component) along with an understanding of where the community has been (conceptually) versus where it may be going. More broadly, the proposal aims to capture the emergent structures, patterns, or clusters of information prevalent in within the community. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Sarah Ramdeen (student award) || Stewardship of physical data:<br />
Use case and community engagement || ESIP supports a wide variety of work related to earth science information. One prominent group within ESIP is the Data Stewardship Committee... Given the overwhelming activities the Data Stewardship Committee is working on, there is a need to explore an ESIP cluster to focus on this narrow subset and to act as a leader among this community. The project will develop a use case describing the existing issues related to stewardship of physical data and work on building connections between these diverse communities. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Sophie Hou (student award) || Roadmap for the Next Generation Data Management Training Modules || From 2011-2103, ESIP partnered with NOAA and the Data Conservancy to produce the current version of the “ESIP Data Management for Scientists Short Course”. To understand the current needs for data management training and to build effective training resources, the Committee would like to assess the current landscape Data Management Training (DMT) resources. This project will contribute to the Committee’s roadmap as well as determining potential collaborators for the ESIP Short Course. || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Soren Scott (full award) || A Github Badging System || Github badges provide a quick and visual way to indicate build status, code coverage or participation in crowdfunding opportunities. There is a desire in the ESIP community to acknowledge participation in ESIP collaborations without requiring (or creating the expectation) that a project repository be hosted under the ESIP Federation Github organization... This project proposes a system of badges that can be included in a project’s README documentation as a simple branding activity. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Wade Bishop (full award) || Harvesting Information Partnerships for Geospatial data Education and Outreach (HIPGEO) || The HIPGEO project will create a potential partner directory to grow ESIP institutional membership. This list combined with existing members also provides a useful sampling frame for job analyses to inform the earth data science curriculum. || TBD || Summer 2015 <br />
|-<br />
| Shelley Olds (full award) || Title || Summary || TBD || Summer 2015<br />
|-<br />
| Bruce Caron, Adam Shepherd || Working Group Syndicated Content Tool || Similarly focused working groups across organizations such as ESIP, Research Data Alliance (RDA) and EarthCube (EC) could share content from their respective online website workspaces through a syndicated RSS feed for display on the other related working group websites. Coincidentally, all of these sites run on the Drupal platform, for which, the EOSDIS group developed code, or Drupal module, that syndicates content across multiuple Drupal sites – the Earth Data Federated Content Tool (ED-FCT). || TBD || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kaijian Xu || Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories || This project provides a new framework for a highly expressive, descriptive annotation of multimedia content like images, video, etc. in scientific repositories, using a language structure that is inspired by word classes (e.g. nouns, verbs, etc.) in everyday (“natural”) languages. Such a framework would be used to capture and represent rich, semantic annotations about what objects and features are present within the scene, the interactions between them, as well as further describe such objects and interactions. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7864 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kelly Monteleone || Converting mb-system Files in Windows and Apple || Mb-system is a unix based program for multibeam sonar (Bathymetry) data. Mb-system was supported by NOAA from 2002 to 2004. It does not work in windows and is complicated to install and use. Goal: Create a one click installer that will install Cygwin, mb-system, and supporting files on a windows system. And pull out a python wrapper for Apple and non-cygwin installation. This will provide a GUI to export the data in xyz, ascii, and GeoTIFF. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7760 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kevin Dobbs || Leveraging the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that American emergency response agencies can utilize aquaponics systems after a disaster event has occurred in any region. It is imperative that the aquaponics systems be suited for the region based on climate and population and that the people of the area are taught how to use and maintain the systems. Through the use of technologies such as Esri ArcMap, Worldview, iRODS, ect. geospatial data from a variety of DAACs will be used to pre-plan for a case study on a particular region. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7871 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Kyle Nelson || Enhancing and Educating with the WxSat Mobile App || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was designed and presented to promote the idea of building upon the successful WxSat app (iOS and Android) that allows users to view global visible, infrared and water vapor satellite data on mobile devices. Current products are viewable in black and white but color enhanced imagery can allow for ease of identification of key weather features. Satellite imagery is becoming more prevalent with ease of access online and is being displayed increasingly often on local and national weather segments. To enhance the understanding of the all who view satellite data, an educational tutorial will be created with case studies for all three imagery types. Meteorological phenomena will be identified through annotated still and animated images to provide a conceptual model for the user to apply when viewing satellite imagery in real time via the WxSat app or another source. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7860 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Lee Hyokyung || HDFCRAFT – Making Earth Data Fun! || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that NASA HDF/HDF-EOS data products can be used for Minecraft game. Minecraft stores its world maps in Anvil file format that has similar characteristics that HDF has. By converting NASA HDF data into Minecraft map, kids and educators can play with NASA Earth Data easily in 3D. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7742 || Summer 2014<br />
|-<br />
| Matt Ferrito || ToolMatch Extension || The ToolMatch project was based upon the idea of semantic matching of data collections and tools that could be used with those data collections. Specifically, two use cases were developed for the service: 1. Search for the tools that can be used with a given data collection, and then find out what the tool can do with the data collection. 2. Search for collections that can be used with their tool, and capture information about what the data user would like to be able to do with their data. The poster created and presented at the 2014 ESIP Summer Meeting was based upon the idea of an extension of the second use case. This extension involves the semantic matching of data collection content with applicable tools. This matching is stricter than than matching based upon information about the data collection, but the use case itself is broader in scope. Ex: Given rainfall or topology measurements, determine which tools within a hyrdologoical model can be used with the data content. This will allow the appropriate tools within the model to be used with the matching data collection content. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7735 || Summer 2014<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= ESIP Testbed Task Archive =<br />
Below is an archive of past Testbed activities with a short description for each. <br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Additional Links<br />
|-<br />
| Yeuchen Chi || Expert Skills Database || The Federation collectively includes an exceptionally wide range of expertise among its participating members. These expert skills of Federation members will be categorized in a knowledge base and offered as a service. We use the master ESIP email list of over 700 names and Drupal tools to enable any member to associate their name to a skill and associated expertise level. Currently, the skill list consists of 60 information technology (IT) skills, but members can add additional categories. A GUI enables users to search this skill list by multiple criteria. Ultimate Benefit: Promotion of expert skills available within the Federation. || http://www.esipfed.org/expert<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Unique Data Identifiers || The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent identifier schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship. These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles as well as inventory nodes in data archives and must include representations for versions of the entity being identified. Many identifier options have been proposed for different kinds of data, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination. For example, two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating distinctions between them that may not be addressed adequately by identifier schemes used for typical "published" items such as books and journals. Last year's activity included a recommendation on identifier schemes to use for Earth Science data, but did not address the implementation issues that arise with the identifier schemes considered. The next Task for this work is to examine several different kinds of Federal datasets, assign identifiers from up to nine identifier schemes considered in the previously mentioned paper, evaluate and compare the implementation implications and other practical considerations associated with the use of each identifier scheme applied, and develop recommendations. Practical considerations may include the need to integrate with other metadata schemes such as ISO, and application to data citation formats and practices. <br />
Ultimate Benefit: Permanent, unique names for Federation data products and recommendations for practice based on testbed experience.<br />
|| TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Zhipeng Gui, Qunying Huang, Kai Liu, Jizhe Xia || Semantic Registration of Data and Services || The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts. The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings. Ultimate Benefit: Better classification and discovery of specialized Federation products and services || http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Application-Specific Portals || The Air Quality Working Group has been developing an inventory of air quality data and data services. Other GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas could benefit from a similar capability to highlight offerings from Federation members. For this task, the Air Quality has been cloned for use by other application areas. Initially, a Water portal has been developed. Ultimate Benefit: Better marketing of targeted Federation products and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Chaowei (Phil) Yang || Cloud Computing Resource Calculator || Many scientist and geospatial application providers are considering transforming their current computing infrastructure into clouds (IaaS and PaaS); however, it is a big challenge to select the most suitable cloud platforms and configuration solutions for the cloud novices and even for experienced cloud users. The Cloud Computing Resource Calculator meets this need by providing an advisory tool for: 1) Helping cloud novices understand the basic concepts and potential applications of cloud computing providers, services and technologies; 2) Assisting cloud computing early adopters to easily and effectively select the best solutions based on their unique application requirements; and 3) Periodically collecting/updating the mainstream cloud platforms’ information and build an expert system and database.|| http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/1244<br />
|-<br />
| Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Zhipeng Gui, Min Sun, Chaowei Yang || Data and information Quality || An automatic classification/annotation system that assesses, monitors, and accurately reports on the quality of ESIP data and services. The project sought to include: (1) a quality model and classification engine that established a set of quality metrics for data and services. The engine will automatically derive the quality of ESIP products and services, (2) work on metadata quality which is not usually addressed, and (3) accounting feedback from users to help rate quality of data and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Christine White || Open Search and Discovery || The Discovery cluster provides a medium for Federation members to coordinate on development, deployment, and creation of interoperable specifications for Discovery services such as OpenSearch, DataCasting, and ServiceCasting. The initial vision of the Discovery Testbed was to support the following items:<br />
* Setup validation for registration of ESIP services<br />
* Encourage the ESIP Community to register their services<br />
* Provide some form of a service cast of registered services<br />
* Chaining together of data and services, e.g., exploring data and services mapping, brokering<br />
The Esri Geoportal Server was used in this case to provide such an interface. || [[media:StateOfTheArt_ESIP_Discovery_Testbed-20120307rev1.pdf]], http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_Testbed_Work_Plan, http://23.23.211.222:8080/geoportal<br />
|-<br />
| Greg Janee and Nancy Hoebelheinrich || Data Stewardship ||The datasets to be addressed will include a relatively simple image collection and a second containing granule-level data objects such as a longtime series from multiple sensors/satellites. The project tasks include:(1) Preparing, transforming and performing quality control tasks on the metadata for each dataset in a storage environment that can be queried, and appended to add the identifiers from each scheme to each entity in the two datasets,(2) Map the existing metadata for each dataset into the metadata requirements for each identifier scheme for the purposes of identification and citation, (3) Track and discuss the implementation issues associated with each task per the questions previously identified by the Data Stewardship & Preservation cluster (see the initial list on the ESIP wiki at: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Implementation_Issues_to_be_addressed ), and others as they arise, (4) Bring implementation issues to the Data Stewardship cluster as needed for discussion and resolution/decision, (5) Develop list of practical considerations for each identifier scheme, and (6) develop draft set of best practices for discussion at future ESIP Federation meetings. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Eric Rozell, Tom Narock || Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics || The ability to discover the technical competencies of other researchers in the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) community can help in the discovery of collaborations. In addition to collaboration discovery, social network information can be used to analyze trends in the field, which will help project managers identify irrelevant, well-established, and emerging technologies and specifications. This information will help keep projects focused on the technologies and standards that are actually being used, making them more useful to the ESSI community. This problem was addressed with a solution involving two components: a pipeline for generating structured data from AGU-ESSI abstracts and ESIP member information, and an API and Web application for accessing the generated data.|| http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Linked_Open_Research_Data_for_Earth_and_Space_Science_Informatics<br />
|-<br />
|Jerry Yun Pan, Nigel Banks||Re-usable Metadata Editor||Develop a generic, reusable software system to facilitate the support for multiple metadata standards and their variations. The tool will be flexible and reusable for multiple metadata standards, and allows an administrator to design and tailor the metadata authoring tool/editor according to the targeted metadata schema without writing new code. The core of the tool suite consists of two parts: (1) a designing tool for "super" users who are responsible for designing the metadata editors, and (2) a rendering engine that makes use of a pre-made metadata editor definition. The designing tool defines a metadata editor based on user inputs and saves the definition for reuse. The rendering engine makes use of the definitions to facilitate metadata authoring and editing. The "editor-of-editors" is schema driven. The design tool allows for the selection of a subset of a whole schema (a "profile") to form an editor, or the selection of an extension of a schema. The editor definitions can be exported and shared among multiple installations. Ultimate Benefit: A general purpose metadata authoring and editing tool that is easily shareable across organizations. The code is open source for free use.|| TBD<br />
|}</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Past_Testbed_Tasks&diff=51520Past Testbed Tasks2015-10-13T20:08:27Z<p>Cwhite: /* FUNding Friday Projects, 2015 */</p>
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=Testbed Projects, 2014-2015=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Main POC !! Title !! Summary !! ESIP Sponsoring Group !! Funding Cycle<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Expanding a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing ||The Disaster Lifecycle Cluster seeks to build upon the previous funded proposal that established a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to provide a platform from which to share geospatial data in a collaborative environment. By increasing the number of instances that can be used by an initial group of users/participants within the ESIP Disaster Lifecycle Cluster, two additional organizations can engage in their own testing and collaborative connections among ESIP member data providers and potential users that support disaster lifecycle and end user communities.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| John Graybeal || Evaluating Prototypes in ESIP’s Testbed Ecosystem (FastTrack)|| Responds to the ESIP Fast-Track solicitation and addresses the need for product evaluation criteria and mechanisms suitable for internal and community use. We propose an analysis which researches and consolidates existing evaluation strategies for community products, and recommends an approach suitable for use with submissions to ESIP’s Testbed process. While targeting initial criteria for products entering and exiting ESIP Prototype status, the proposal anticipates a framework that can be developed and rolled out incrementally, and later applied to Testbed products with increasing readiness levels.|| Products & Services || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Disaster Life Cycle Testbed - An ESIP Product & Service Testbed Proposal: Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (C-COP) || Start a framework for addressing recent Presidential Executive Orders (PEOs) that address the importance of building resilience in the face of a changing climate both nationally and internationally. The testbed will provide a forum by which ESIP members can not only improve their products, but also share best practices for other members considering how they too might have data products to offer to the disasters response community. || Disaster Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Eugene Chi || Connect, Share and Discover ESIP Research and Expertise using VIVO Technology || ESIP community needs a searchable database cataloguing the research and expertise of ESIP members to promote integrated and interdisciplinary research. VIVO is a semantic-web-based research and expertise discovery tool. This work is to use this technology to research and develop a testbed system for the collection and discovery of ESIP research and expertise, and includes extending the VIVO ontology to include the ESIP research and expertise ontology. || ESIP Testbed Web Support || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Marshall Ma || An entity linking service for documents and datasets in Earth and environmental sciences || (1) Engage member organizations of ESIP to use the services and to share their ontologies and vocabularies to build the knowledge base; and (2) Design, build and online deployment of the service that support entity linking in Earth and environmental sciences. || Semantic Web || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || ToolMatch Service Testbed Project Proposal to Expand Community Engagement || In order to make further progress on the viability and robustness of the ToolMatch service, much more instance data needs to be added to the knowledge store .... Testing the service by means of an online hackathon should also allow the service to be known more broadly... In-depth analysis of the types of data collection, visualization tools, and technologies used by these data catalogs and registries. || ToolMatch - Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/7288 ToolMatch Service Testbed Project] || Address two use cases by developing out The ToolMatch service - 1) that its difficult to know what tools can be used on a dataset, and 2) the converse; it is difficult to know what datasets a tool is capable of working upon. The ToolMatch service will have, at its foundation, a simple ontology and set of rules that will describe what kinds of tools work with what kinds of datasets. For both use cases, a simple user interface for user interaction, and a simple RESTful web service for use by applications and data portals, will give the client access to the ToolMatch knowledge base with the same goal of matching tools with data. || Semantic Web Cluster, Energy & Climate Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|-<br />
| Michael Huhns, Line Pouchard || [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7772 Evaluating the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation] || Many organizations, groups, and individual scientists are developing ontologies to specify the semantics of their domains of interest in environmental sciences. The ontologies are useful, but largely exist in isolation. There are major benefits to be obtained by relating the ontologies to each other and reconcile their differing specification languages. The objective of our effort is to develop a semi‐automated means for curating ontologies and reconciling their representations. The result will be greatly improved accessibility and usability of the ontologies, which will help to accelerate research in environmental sciences. || Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=FUNding Friday Projects, Summer 2014=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Winter Meeting 2015 Poster Node<br />
|-<br />
| Bruce Caron, Adam Shepherd || Working Group Syndicated Content Tool || Similarly focused working groups across organizations such as ESIP, Research Data Alliance (RDA) and EarthCube (EC) could share content from their respective online website workspaces through a syndicated RSS feed for display on the other related working group websites. Coincidentally, all of these sites run on the Drupal platform, for which, the EOSDIS group developed code, or Drupal module, that syndicates content across multiuple Drupal sites – the Earth Data Federated Content Tool (ED-FCT). || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Kaijian Xu || Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories || This project provides a new framework for a highly expressive, descriptive annotation of multimedia content like images, video, etc. in scientific repositories, using a language structure that is inspired by word classes (e.g. nouns, verbs, etc.) in everyday (“natural”) languages. Such a framework would be used to capture and represent rich, semantic annotations about what objects and features are present within the scene, the interactions between them, as well as further describe such objects and interactions. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7864<br />
|-<br />
| Kelly Monteleone || Converting mb-system Files in Windows and Apple || Mb-system is a unix based program for multibeam sonar (Bathymetry) data. Mb-system was supported by NOAA from 2002 to 2004. It does not work in windows and is complicated to install and use. Goal: Create a one click installer that will install Cygwin, mb-system, and supporting files on a windows system. And pull out a python wrapper for Apple and non-cygwin installation. This will provide a GUI to export the data in xyz, ascii, and GeoTIFF. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7760<br />
|-<br />
| Kevin Dobbs || Leveraging the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that American emergency response agencies can utilize aquaponics systems after a disaster event has occurred in any region. It is imperative that the aquaponics systems be suited for the region based on climate and population and that the people of the area are taught how to use and maintain the systems. Through the use of technologies such as Esri ArcMap, Worldview, iRODS, ect. geospatial data from a variety of DAACs will be used to pre-plan for a case study on a particular region. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7871<br />
|-<br />
| Kyle Nelson || Enhancing and Educating with the WxSat Mobile App || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was designed and presented to promote the idea of building upon the successful WxSat app (iOS and Android) that allows users to view global visible, infrared and water vapor satellite data on mobile devices. Current products are viewable in black and white but color enhanced imagery can allow for ease of identification of key weather features. Satellite imagery is becoming more prevalent with ease of access online and is being displayed increasingly often on local and national weather segments. To enhance the understanding of the all who view satellite data, an educational tutorial will be created with case studies for all three imagery types. Meteorological phenomena will be identified through annotated still and animated images to provide a conceptual model for the user to apply when viewing satellite imagery in real time via the WxSat app or another source. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7860<br />
|-<br />
| Lee Hyokyung || HDFCRAFT – Making Earth Data Fun! || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that NASA HDF/HDF-EOS data products can be used for Minecraft game. Minecraft stores its world maps in Anvil file format that has similar characteristics that HDF has. By converting NASA HDF data into Minecraft map, kids and educators can play with NASA Earth Data easily in 3D. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7742<br />
|-<br />
| Matt Ferrito || ToolMatch Extension || The ToolMatch project was based upon the idea of semantic matching of data collections and tools that could be used with those data collections. Specifically, two use cases were developed for the service: 1. Search for the tools that can be used with a given data collection, and then find out what the tool can do with the data collection. 2. Search for collections that can be used with their tool, and capture information about what the data user would like to be able to do with their data. The poster created and presented at the 2014 ESIP Summer Meeting was based upon the idea of an extension of the second use case. This extension involves the semantic matching of data collection content with applicable tools. This matching is stricter than than matching based upon information about the data collection, but the use case itself is broader in scope. Ex: Given rainfall or topology measurements, determine which tools within a hyrdologoical model can be used with the data content. This will allow the appropriate tools within the model to be used with the matching data collection content. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7735<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= ESIP Testbed Task Archive =<br />
Below is an archive of past Testbed activities with a short description for each. <br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Additional Links<br />
|-<br />
| Yeuchen Chi || Expert Skills Database || The Federation collectively includes an exceptionally wide range of expertise among its participating members. These expert skills of Federation members will be categorized in a knowledge base and offered as a service. We use the master ESIP email list of over 700 names and Drupal tools to enable any member to associate their name to a skill and associated expertise level. Currently, the skill list consists of 60 information technology (IT) skills, but members can add additional categories. A GUI enables users to search this skill list by multiple criteria. Ultimate Benefit: Promotion of expert skills available within the Federation. || http://www.esipfed.org/expert<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Unique Data Identifiers || The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent identifier schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship. These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles as well as inventory nodes in data archives and must include representations for versions of the entity being identified. Many identifier options have been proposed for different kinds of data, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination. For example, two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating distinctions between them that may not be addressed adequately by identifier schemes used for typical "published" items such as books and journals. Last year's activity included a recommendation on identifier schemes to use for Earth Science data, but did not address the implementation issues that arise with the identifier schemes considered. The next Task for this work is to examine several different kinds of Federal datasets, assign identifiers from up to nine identifier schemes considered in the previously mentioned paper, evaluate and compare the implementation implications and other practical considerations associated with the use of each identifier scheme applied, and develop recommendations. Practical considerations may include the need to integrate with other metadata schemes such as ISO, and application to data citation formats and practices. <br />
Ultimate Benefit: Permanent, unique names for Federation data products and recommendations for practice based on testbed experience.<br />
|| TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Zhipeng Gui, Qunying Huang, Kai Liu, Jizhe Xia || Semantic Registration of Data and Services || The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts. The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings. Ultimate Benefit: Better classification and discovery of specialized Federation products and services || http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Application-Specific Portals || The Air Quality Working Group has been developing an inventory of air quality data and data services. Other GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas could benefit from a similar capability to highlight offerings from Federation members. For this task, the Air Quality has been cloned for use by other application areas. Initially, a Water portal has been developed. Ultimate Benefit: Better marketing of targeted Federation products and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Chaowei (Phil) Yang || Cloud Computing Resource Calculator || Many scientist and geospatial application providers are considering transforming their current computing infrastructure into clouds (IaaS and PaaS); however, it is a big challenge to select the most suitable cloud platforms and configuration solutions for the cloud novices and even for experienced cloud users. The Cloud Computing Resource Calculator meets this need by providing an advisory tool for: 1) Helping cloud novices understand the basic concepts and potential applications of cloud computing providers, services and technologies; 2) Assisting cloud computing early adopters to easily and effectively select the best solutions based on their unique application requirements; and 3) Periodically collecting/updating the mainstream cloud platforms’ information and build an expert system and database.|| http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/1244<br />
|-<br />
| Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Zhipeng Gui, Min Sun, Chaowei Yang || Data and information Quality || An automatic classification/annotation system that assesses, monitors, and accurately reports on the quality of ESIP data and services. The project sought to include: (1) a quality model and classification engine that established a set of quality metrics for data and services. The engine will automatically derive the quality of ESIP products and services, (2) work on metadata quality which is not usually addressed, and (3) accounting feedback from users to help rate quality of data and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Christine White || Open Search and Discovery || The Discovery cluster provides a medium for Federation members to coordinate on development, deployment, and creation of interoperable specifications for Discovery services such as OpenSearch, DataCasting, and ServiceCasting. The initial vision of the Discovery Testbed was to support the following items:<br />
* Setup validation for registration of ESIP services<br />
* Encourage the ESIP Community to register their services<br />
* Provide some form of a service cast of registered services<br />
* Chaining together of data and services, e.g., exploring data and services mapping, brokering<br />
The Esri Geoportal Server was used in this case to provide such an interface. || [[media:StateOfTheArt_ESIP_Discovery_Testbed-20120307rev1.pdf]], http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_Testbed_Work_Plan, http://23.23.211.222:8080/geoportal<br />
|-<br />
| Greg Janee and Nancy Hoebelheinrich || Data Stewardship ||The datasets to be addressed will include a relatively simple image collection and a second containing granule-level data objects such as a longtime series from multiple sensors/satellites. The project tasks include:(1) Preparing, transforming and performing quality control tasks on the metadata for each dataset in a storage environment that can be queried, and appended to add the identifiers from each scheme to each entity in the two datasets,(2) Map the existing metadata for each dataset into the metadata requirements for each identifier scheme for the purposes of identification and citation, (3) Track and discuss the implementation issues associated with each task per the questions previously identified by the Data Stewardship & Preservation cluster (see the initial list on the ESIP wiki at: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Implementation_Issues_to_be_addressed ), and others as they arise, (4) Bring implementation issues to the Data Stewardship cluster as needed for discussion and resolution/decision, (5) Develop list of practical considerations for each identifier scheme, and (6) develop draft set of best practices for discussion at future ESIP Federation meetings. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Eric Rozell, Tom Narock || Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics || The ability to discover the technical competencies of other researchers in the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) community can help in the discovery of collaborations. In addition to collaboration discovery, social network information can be used to analyze trends in the field, which will help project managers identify irrelevant, well-established, and emerging technologies and specifications. This information will help keep projects focused on the technologies and standards that are actually being used, making them more useful to the ESSI community. This problem was addressed with a solution involving two components: a pipeline for generating structured data from AGU-ESSI abstracts and ESIP member information, and an API and Web application for accessing the generated data.|| http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Linked_Open_Research_Data_for_Earth_and_Space_Science_Informatics<br />
|-<br />
|Jerry Yun Pan, Nigel Banks||Re-usable Metadata Editor||Develop a generic, reusable software system to facilitate the support for multiple metadata standards and their variations. The tool will be flexible and reusable for multiple metadata standards, and allows an administrator to design and tailor the metadata authoring tool/editor according to the targeted metadata schema without writing new code. The core of the tool suite consists of two parts: (1) a designing tool for "super" users who are responsible for designing the metadata editors, and (2) a rendering engine that makes use of a pre-made metadata editor definition. The designing tool defines a metadata editor based on user inputs and saves the definition for reuse. The rendering engine makes use of the definitions to facilitate metadata authoring and editing. The "editor-of-editors" is schema driven. The design tool allows for the selection of a subset of a whole schema (a "profile") to form an editor, or the selection of an extension of a schema. The editor definitions can be exported and shared among multiple installations. Ultimate Benefit: A general purpose metadata authoring and editing tool that is easily shareable across organizations. The code is open source for free use.|| TBD<br />
|}</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Past_Testbed_Tasks&diff=51519Past Testbed Tasks2015-10-13T20:07:41Z<p>Cwhite: /* Testbed Projects, 2014-2015 */</p>
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=Testbed Projects, 2014-2015=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
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! Main POC !! Title !! Summary !! ESIP Sponsoring Group !! Funding Cycle<br />
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| Emily Law || Expanding a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to Accelerate Geospatial Data Testing ||The Disaster Lifecycle Cluster seeks to build upon the previous funded proposal that established a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (CCOP) to provide a platform from which to share geospatial data in a collaborative environment. By increasing the number of instances that can be used by an initial group of users/participants within the ESIP Disaster Lifecycle Cluster, two additional organizations can engage in their own testing and collaborative connections among ESIP member data providers and potential users that support disaster lifecycle and end user communities.|| Disaster Cluster || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| John Graybeal || Evaluating Prototypes in ESIP’s Testbed Ecosystem (FastTrack)|| Responds to the ESIP Fast-Track solicitation and addresses the need for product evaluation criteria and mechanisms suitable for internal and community use. We propose an analysis which researches and consolidates existing evaluation strategies for community products, and recommends an approach suitable for use with submissions to ESIP’s Testbed process. While targeting initial criteria for products entering and exiting ESIP Prototype status, the proposal anticipates a framework that can be developed and rolled out incrementally, and later applied to Testbed products with increasing readiness levels.|| Products & Services || 2015-06<br />
|-<br />
| Emily Law || Disaster Life Cycle Testbed - An ESIP Product & Service Testbed Proposal: Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture (C-COP) || Start a framework for addressing recent Presidential Executive Orders (PEOs) that address the importance of building resilience in the face of a changing climate both nationally and internationally. The testbed will provide a forum by which ESIP members can not only improve their products, but also share best practices for other members considering how they too might have data products to offer to the disasters response community. || Disaster Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Eugene Chi || Connect, Share and Discover ESIP Research and Expertise using VIVO Technology || ESIP community needs a searchable database cataloguing the research and expertise of ESIP members to promote integrated and interdisciplinary research. VIVO is a semantic-web-based research and expertise discovery tool. This work is to use this technology to research and develop a testbed system for the collection and discovery of ESIP research and expertise, and includes extending the VIVO ontology to include the ESIP research and expertise ontology. || ESIP Testbed Web Support || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Marshall Ma || An entity linking service for documents and datasets in Earth and environmental sciences || (1) Engage member organizations of ESIP to use the services and to share their ontologies and vocabularies to build the knowledge base; and (2) Design, build and online deployment of the service that support entity linking in Earth and environmental sciences. || Semantic Web || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || ToolMatch Service Testbed Project Proposal to Expand Community Engagement || In order to make further progress on the viability and robustness of the ToolMatch service, much more instance data needs to be added to the knowledge store .... Testing the service by means of an online hackathon should also allow the service to be known more broadly... In-depth analysis of the types of data collection, visualization tools, and technologies used by these data catalogs and registries. || ToolMatch - Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-10<br />
|-<br />
| Matthew Ferritto || [http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/7288 ToolMatch Service Testbed Project] || Address two use cases by developing out The ToolMatch service - 1) that its difficult to know what tools can be used on a dataset, and 2) the converse; it is difficult to know what datasets a tool is capable of working upon. The ToolMatch service will have, at its foundation, a simple ontology and set of rules that will describe what kinds of tools work with what kinds of datasets. For both use cases, a simple user interface for user interaction, and a simple RESTful web service for use by applications and data portals, will give the client access to the ToolMatch knowledge base with the same goal of matching tools with data. || Semantic Web Cluster, Energy & Climate Cluster || 2014-04<br />
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| Michael Huhns, Line Pouchard || [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7772 Evaluating the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation] || Many organizations, groups, and individual scientists are developing ontologies to specify the semantics of their domains of interest in environmental sciences. The ontologies are useful, but largely exist in isolation. There are major benefits to be obtained by relating the ontologies to each other and reconcile their differing specification languages. The objective of our effort is to develop a semi‐automated means for curating ontologies and reconciling their representations. The result will be greatly improved accessibility and usability of the ontologies, which will help to accelerate research in environmental sciences. || Semantic Web Cluster || 2014-04<br />
|}<br />
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=FUNding Friday Projects, 2015=<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Winter Meeting 2015 Poster Node<br />
|-<br />
| Bruce Caron, Adam Shepherd || Working Group Syndicated Content Tool || Similarly focused working groups across organizations such as ESIP, Research Data Alliance (RDA) and EarthCube (EC) could share content from their respective online website workspaces through a syndicated RSS feed for display on the other related working group websites. Coincidentally, all of these sites run on the Drupal platform, for which, the EOSDIS group developed code, or Drupal module, that syndicates content across multiuple Drupal sites – the Earth Data Federated Content Tool (ED-FCT). || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Kaijian Xu || Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories || This project provides a new framework for a highly expressive, descriptive annotation of multimedia content like images, video, etc. in scientific repositories, using a language structure that is inspired by word classes (e.g. nouns, verbs, etc.) in everyday (“natural”) languages. Such a framework would be used to capture and represent rich, semantic annotations about what objects and features are present within the scene, the interactions between them, as well as further describe such objects and interactions. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7864<br />
|-<br />
| Kelly Monteleone || Converting mb-system Files in Windows and Apple || Mb-system is a unix based program for multibeam sonar (Bathymetry) data. Mb-system was supported by NOAA from 2002 to 2004. It does not work in windows and is complicated to install and use. Goal: Create a one click installer that will install Cygwin, mb-system, and supporting files on a windows system. And pull out a python wrapper for Apple and non-cygwin installation. This will provide a GUI to export the data in xyz, ascii, and GeoTIFF. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7760<br />
|-<br />
| Kevin Dobbs || Leveraging the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that American emergency response agencies can utilize aquaponics systems after a disaster event has occurred in any region. It is imperative that the aquaponics systems be suited for the region based on climate and population and that the people of the area are taught how to use and maintain the systems. Through the use of technologies such as Esri ArcMap, Worldview, iRODS, ect. geospatial data from a variety of DAACs will be used to pre-plan for a case study on a particular region. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7871<br />
|-<br />
| Kyle Nelson || Enhancing and Educating with the WxSat Mobile App || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was designed and presented to promote the idea of building upon the successful WxSat app (iOS and Android) that allows users to view global visible, infrared and water vapor satellite data on mobile devices. Current products are viewable in black and white but color enhanced imagery can allow for ease of identification of key weather features. Satellite imagery is becoming more prevalent with ease of access online and is being displayed increasingly often on local and national weather segments. To enhance the understanding of the all who view satellite data, an educational tutorial will be created with case studies for all three imagery types. Meteorological phenomena will be identified through annotated still and animated images to provide a conceptual model for the user to apply when viewing satellite imagery in real time via the WxSat app or another source. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7860<br />
|-<br />
| Lee Hyokyung || HDFCRAFT – Making Earth Data Fun! || At the 2014 Summer ESIP meeting a poster was created and presented based on the idea that NASA HDF/HDF-EOS data products can be used for Minecraft game. Minecraft stores its world maps in Anvil file format that has similar characteristics that HDF has. By converting NASA HDF data into Minecraft map, kids and educators can play with NASA Earth Data easily in 3D. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7742<br />
|-<br />
| Matt Ferrito || ToolMatch Extension || The ToolMatch project was based upon the idea of semantic matching of data collections and tools that could be used with those data collections. Specifically, two use cases were developed for the service: 1. Search for the tools that can be used with a given data collection, and then find out what the tool can do with the data collection. 2. Search for collections that can be used with their tool, and capture information about what the data user would like to be able to do with their data. The poster created and presented at the 2014 ESIP Summer Meeting was based upon the idea of an extension of the second use case. This extension involves the semantic matching of data collection content with applicable tools. This matching is stricter than than matching based upon information about the data collection, but the use case itself is broader in scope. Ex: Given rainfall or topology measurements, determine which tools within a hyrdologoical model can be used with the data content. This will allow the appropriate tools within the model to be used with the matching data collection content. || http://commons.esipfed.org/node/7735<br />
|}<br />
<br />
= ESIP Testbed Task Archive =<br />
Below is an archive of past Testbed activities with a short description for each. <br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Project Owners !! Title !! Summary !! Additional Links<br />
|-<br />
| Yeuchen Chi || Expert Skills Database || The Federation collectively includes an exceptionally wide range of expertise among its participating members. These expert skills of Federation members will be categorized in a knowledge base and offered as a service. We use the master ESIP email list of over 700 names and Drupal tools to enable any member to associate their name to a skill and associated expertise level. Currently, the skill list consists of 60 information technology (IT) skills, but members can add additional categories. A GUI enables users to search this skill list by multiple criteria. Ultimate Benefit: Promotion of expert skills available within the Federation. || http://www.esipfed.org/expert<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Unique Data Identifiers || The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent identifier schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship. These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles as well as inventory nodes in data archives and must include representations for versions of the entity being identified. Many identifier options have been proposed for different kinds of data, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination. For example, two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating distinctions between them that may not be addressed adequately by identifier schemes used for typical "published" items such as books and journals. Last year's activity included a recommendation on identifier schemes to use for Earth Science data, but did not address the implementation issues that arise with the identifier schemes considered. The next Task for this work is to examine several different kinds of Federal datasets, assign identifiers from up to nine identifier schemes considered in the previously mentioned paper, evaluate and compare the implementation implications and other practical considerations associated with the use of each identifier scheme applied, and develop recommendations. Practical considerations may include the need to integrate with other metadata schemes such as ISO, and application to data citation formats and practices. <br />
Ultimate Benefit: Permanent, unique names for Federation data products and recommendations for practice based on testbed experience.<br />
|| TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Zhipeng Gui, Qunying Huang, Kai Liu, Jizhe Xia || Semantic Registration of Data and Services || The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts. The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings. Ultimate Benefit: Better classification and discovery of specialized Federation products and services || http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies<br />
|-<br />
| missing || Application-Specific Portals || The Air Quality Working Group has been developing an inventory of air quality data and data services. Other GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas could benefit from a similar capability to highlight offerings from Federation members. For this task, the Air Quality has been cloned for use by other application areas. Initially, a Water portal has been developed. Ultimate Benefit: Better marketing of targeted Federation products and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Chaowei (Phil) Yang || Cloud Computing Resource Calculator || Many scientist and geospatial application providers are considering transforming their current computing infrastructure into clouds (IaaS and PaaS); however, it is a big challenge to select the most suitable cloud platforms and configuration solutions for the cloud novices and even for experienced cloud users. The Cloud Computing Resource Calculator meets this need by providing an advisory tool for: 1) Helping cloud novices understand the basic concepts and potential applications of cloud computing providers, services and technologies; 2) Assisting cloud computing early adopters to easily and effectively select the best solutions based on their unique application requirements; and 3) Periodically collecting/updating the mainstream cloud platforms’ information and build an expert system and database.|| http://testbed.esipfed.org/node/1244<br />
|-<br />
| Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Zhipeng Gui, Min Sun, Chaowei Yang || Data and information Quality || An automatic classification/annotation system that assesses, monitors, and accurately reports on the quality of ESIP data and services. The project sought to include: (1) a quality model and classification engine that established a set of quality metrics for data and services. The engine will automatically derive the quality of ESIP products and services, (2) work on metadata quality which is not usually addressed, and (3) accounting feedback from users to help rate quality of data and services. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Christine White || Open Search and Discovery || The Discovery cluster provides a medium for Federation members to coordinate on development, deployment, and creation of interoperable specifications for Discovery services such as OpenSearch, DataCasting, and ServiceCasting. The initial vision of the Discovery Testbed was to support the following items:<br />
* Setup validation for registration of ESIP services<br />
* Encourage the ESIP Community to register their services<br />
* Provide some form of a service cast of registered services<br />
* Chaining together of data and services, e.g., exploring data and services mapping, brokering<br />
The Esri Geoportal Server was used in this case to provide such an interface. || [[media:StateOfTheArt_ESIP_Discovery_Testbed-20120307rev1.pdf]], http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_Testbed_Work_Plan, http://23.23.211.222:8080/geoportal<br />
|-<br />
| Greg Janee and Nancy Hoebelheinrich || Data Stewardship ||The datasets to be addressed will include a relatively simple image collection and a second containing granule-level data objects such as a longtime series from multiple sensors/satellites. The project tasks include:(1) Preparing, transforming and performing quality control tasks on the metadata for each dataset in a storage environment that can be queried, and appended to add the identifiers from each scheme to each entity in the two datasets,(2) Map the existing metadata for each dataset into the metadata requirements for each identifier scheme for the purposes of identification and citation, (3) Track and discuss the implementation issues associated with each task per the questions previously identified by the Data Stewardship & Preservation cluster (see the initial list on the ESIP wiki at: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Implementation_Issues_to_be_addressed ), and others as they arise, (4) Bring implementation issues to the Data Stewardship cluster as needed for discussion and resolution/decision, (5) Develop list of practical considerations for each identifier scheme, and (6) develop draft set of best practices for discussion at future ESIP Federation meetings. || TBD<br />
|-<br />
| Eric Rozell, Tom Narock || Linked Open Research Data for Earth and Space Science Informatics || The ability to discover the technical competencies of other researchers in the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) community can help in the discovery of collaborations. In addition to collaboration discovery, social network information can be used to analyze trends in the field, which will help project managers identify irrelevant, well-established, and emerging technologies and specifications. This information will help keep projects focused on the technologies and standards that are actually being used, making them more useful to the ESSI community. This problem was addressed with a solution involving two components: a pipeline for generating structured data from AGU-ESSI abstracts and ESIP member information, and an API and Web application for accessing the generated data.|| http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Linked_Open_Research_Data_for_Earth_and_Space_Science_Informatics<br />
|-<br />
|Jerry Yun Pan, Nigel Banks||Re-usable Metadata Editor||Develop a generic, reusable software system to facilitate the support for multiple metadata standards and their variations. The tool will be flexible and reusable for multiple metadata standards, and allows an administrator to design and tailor the metadata authoring tool/editor according to the targeted metadata schema without writing new code. The core of the tool suite consists of two parts: (1) a designing tool for "super" users who are responsible for designing the metadata editors, and (2) a rendering engine that makes use of a pre-made metadata editor definition. The designing tool defines a metadata editor based on user inputs and saves the definition for reuse. The rendering engine makes use of the definitions to facilitate metadata authoring and editing. The "editor-of-editors" is schema driven. The design tool allows for the selection of a subset of a whole schema (a "profile") to form an editor, or the selection of an extension of a schema. The editor definitions can be exported and shared among multiple installations. Ultimate Benefit: A general purpose metadata authoring and editing tool that is easily shareable across organizations. The code is open source for free use.|| TBD<br />
|}</div>Cwhitehttps://wiki.esipfed.org/w/index.php?title=Products_and_Services&diff=50212Products and Services2015-07-03T18:13:52Z<p>Cwhite: </p>
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<div>Chair: Christine White, Esri<br />
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Vice-Chair: <br />
==Purpose==<br />
Per Section V.2.1 of the [http://wiki.esipfed.org/images/1/13/Bylaws_12_01_11_FINAL.pdf ESIP Federation Bylaws], the Standing Committee for Earth Science Products and Services carries out the following:<br />
* encourages the development, use and improvement of best science practices to ensure the quality, usability, and breadth of data and resultant information, products, and services;<br />
* provides a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for Federation Earth science products; and<br />
* provides a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for product services and user services.<br />
<br />
Products and Services carries out this mission by soliciting for and supporting projects through the ESIP Testbed and also through the FUNding Friday mechanism.<br />
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==Monthly Teleconference==<br />
The Products and Services group has a regular monthly telecon (currently) on 3rd Tuesday of every month at 2 pm EST. <br />
<br />
The telecon call-in information for these meetings are below:<br />
<br />
: Dial: 1-877-668-4493<br />
: Access Code: 23133897 #<br />
: https://esipfed.webex.com/mw0306ld/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=esipfed&service=1<br />
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== Committee E-mail List ==<br />
:http://lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-products<br />
<br />
==Yearly Highlights ==<br />
:[http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/File:0_ESIP202_Feb2015_ER.pptx 2014 P&S highlights, slide 12 on ESIP 202 presentation]<br />
:[[2013 highlights/report given at the 2014 Winter ESIP Federation Meeting]]<br />
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==Meeting & Telecon Minutes: ==<br />
Please see the [[P&S Telecon Minutes]] page.<br />
<br />
== Testbed ==<br />
'''Please see the ''[[Testbed]] wiki page'' or [http://testbed.esipfed.org/ ESIP Testbed Site] for latest info.''' <br />
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The purpose of the Products and Services Testbed is to provide an environment where innovations in prototype standards, services, protocols, and best practices can be explored and evaluated. The testbed serves as a forum for innovative collaboration across all sectors of the Federation to improve availability and access to our member products and services for mutual benefit. <br />
<br />
Projects deployed in the Testbed are proposed through response to the Testbed RFP or FUNding Friday activities. Testbed project proposals are reviewed by the Testbed Configuration Board.<br />
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==Topics of Interest==<br />
:Testbed Projects & RFP<br />
:Documentation, Lifecycle, and ESIP Utilization of Testbed Projects<br />
:FUNding Friday<br />
:Metadata for data quality, services, and provenance<br />
:Peer-reviewed datasets<br />
:Permanent dataset names, parameter names, registries, and identifiers<br />
:Client access to catalogs<br />
:Service quality<br />
:[[P&S Data Quality|Data Quality]]<br />
:[[P&S Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records|Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records]] <br />
:[[Federation Inventory]]<br />
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== Metadata Resources & Data Standards ==<br />
=== Metadata Clearinghouses for ESIP Products and Services ===<br />
:[http://www.echo.nasa.gov ECHO]<br />
:[http://www.gcmd.nasa.gov GCMD]<br />
:[http://gcmd.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Home.do?Portal=esip&MetadataType=0 GCMD ESIP Data Portal]<br />
:[http://gcmd.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Home.do?Portal=esip_svcs&MetadataType=1 GCMD ESIP Data Services Portal]<br />
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===Metadata Standards ===<br />
:[http://www.echo.eos.nasa.gov/documents/data_partners/ECHO_10_Data_Partner_User_Guide.pdf ECHO Data Model]<br />
:[http://gcmd.nasa.gov/User/difguide/difman.html GCMD DIF]<br />
:[http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/fgdc-endorsed-standards FGDC]</div>Cwhite