ESC Implementation Strategies
Potential Earth Science Collaboratory Implementation Strategies and Tactics
Note: these strategies are not mutually exclusive.
Direct Funding
Recommend ESC as a program to agencies
Propose to NSF program
Piggyback off data.gov
Indirect or Minimalist Funding
Branding
Form a joint ESC effort without dedicated funding, and target ESC as the eventual home of components developed to other proposal calls. Hopefully, eventual deployment to ESC would give such proposals an advantage.
- Pros: Worked for CEOP
- Cons: May need to be more substantive
Reputation Scoring
Define levels of contributions to construction of ESC and some recognition structure for those different levels. These would be citable in CV's and proposals.
NASA ESDSWG
Make ESC a goal of the NASA Earth Science Working Groups.
- Pros: Technology Infusion, Reuse and Standards and Processes Group currently all work on core needs of the ESC, but are not aiming toward an ESC realization.
- Cons: Not clear that NASA wants to use ESDSWG for this; also leaves out key partners in other agencies, academia, commercial world...
Steering to a Common Target [Reference?] Architecture
Define an architecture; ask participants working on projects to "steer" their development so the products, tools or services fit into the ESC when complete
FlashMob
Everybody go to {some collaborative site} and try collaborating on workflows, tools, data, etc. Candidates would include:
- NASA Earth Exchange
- myexperiment.org
ESIP Hackathon
Ultra-low-cost Recruiting
- Google Summer of Code
- Challenges