ESC 2012 06 18

Participants Chris Lynnes, Brian Wee, Emily Law, Jeff McWhirter, Mike Seablom, Steve Browdy, Dave Fulker, Erin, Hook Hau and Angela Murillo

Agenda & Notes

1. Discussion of a potential Landsat-scale Ecosystem Models use case (Brian)
extract relevant aspects to the 4 focus areas we have (human factors, programmatic, technical, and user stories)

• Always room for more than one use case
• Is it a general use case or will you ask them questions specific
• Trick is to get scientists beyond today and to think about tomorrow
• Can poke around to see what else is out there
• One think to look for is cross disciplinary teams
  • Expect there would be more need for collaborative aspect
  • Something to look for in investigation of use case

2. Discussion of EarthCube Charrette and implications for ESC

• a number of different items that can be applied to ESC
• track and leverage of use-cases that are being developed for earth cube
• focusing both on collaborative and cross domain
• natural and as invisible if possible
• need a number of use cases (compelling) for long-term sustainability funding stream
• might be able to contribute back to earth cube to somehow look for something measureable in the use case
  • quantifiable or something that explains why we need to do this

Broker hack-a-thon activity. SiriJodha and Steve mentioned that it had naturally went into the direction less coupled with ESC. Is there anything we would like to catch up on? They are planning a dedicated track at ESIP.

• if anyone wants to nominate or suggest a broker we can look at
• not taking specific position with brokers
• RAMADDA a possibility
• Discussion of a family of brokers
• Different types of brokers being able to communicate with each other to perform
• From Jeff: http://ramadda.org/repository/alias/brokerexample
• Link to hackathon 1 page and hackathon 2
• Need to go beyond to richer data services
• Hackathon 1 was a richer data service
• Bring ESC and Earthcube together
• A lot of groups have own use cases, want to find common use cases
• Data brokering, service brokering versus metadata brokering, etc…
• People talk about brokering from different points of view
• Earthcube and ESC are similar, but the user groups are different
  • Earthcube focusing on long-tail communities
  • ESIP focused on user side of things

3. Develop agenda for Planning meeting at ESIP meeting
Defining a rough roadmap so we know where the ESC effort is going and if/how it is different from EarthCube efforts.

4. Finalize logistics for RAMADDA Hack-a-thon at ESIP meeting
Ideas for running this with our key knowledge source at a remote location?