2011 Rant and Raves Webinar Series and Telecon Information
ESIP IT&I Telecom Wednesday August 3, 2011
Attendance: Rahul Ramachandran, Chris Lynnes, Bruce Caron, Yuechen Chi, Manil Maskey, Erin Robinson Agenda:
- Recap of the business meeting discussion at the ESIP Summer Meeting
See notes from Chris:
- Most of discussion was based on icommons about what would be published there and potential conflicts with publishing two places
- Rahul suggested that what is published in icommons is not same things that would be eligible for journal pubication
- icommons will have doi/issn so it can be indexed with google scholar.
- best icommons articles could be combined into a special issue of a journal
- success may eventually move to full blown publishing platform (PLoS)
- IT&I Budget discussion
- Development of ESIP infrastructure activities (ESIP iCommons Publication infrastructure)
- Finish the ESIP Drupal based publication platform
- Current version has microarticle content type; upload; citation refs and then workflow is set to go to managing editor
- Provide tech and development support to the ESIP website upgrades
- Cleaning and customizing existing Drupal installation
- Adding new modules
- Running routine maintenance
- Support the ESIP Energy Cluster effort (maybe)
- Create a Drupal based community platform to support the Energy cluster
- Group decided to take out energy effort
- Drupal Cluster formed at Summer Meeting
- Group decided to add $4k for travel for a few members to drupalcon
Total:
- $15K for a ½ time student well versed in Drupal
- $5K for Graphics Designer
Notes from Chris Lynnes:
- Jerry Pan and I agreed to volunteer for a joint Rave on our Simple Subset Wizard and his OpenSearch server for THREDDS Data Server. We both feel that they are too simple to warrant a Rave on their own, and they do work together.
- Much of the discussion revolved around the Intellectual Commons Platform. Questions like: how much / how strong a peer review? How do we get enough submissions? There was some idea of publishing preprint-style articles on it, but then also How do we deal with AGU's Dual Publication policy?
Call-In Information:
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ESIP IT&I “Rants N Raves” Webinar July 6 2011 1PM CT
The ESIP Information Technology and Interoperability Committee continues it’s “Rants N Raves’ Webinar series. The “Rants N Raves” Webinar provides a platform to any ESIP member to present any Information Technology and Interoperability related issues, seek suggestions/ideas or present cool new technology useful to the ESIP community.
This months Rants N Raves Presentation: A Drupal-based Metadata Wizard for USGIN's Minimum Useful Metadata Model
By
Wolfgang Grunberg (now Arizona Game and Fish Department), Ryan Clark (Arizona Geological Survey), and Steve Richard (Arizona Geological Survey)
The US Geoscience Information Network (USGIN; http://lab.usgin.org/) strives to develop and implement the standards and protocols for a distributed and interoperable geospatial data and metadata sharing network. For most content owners and managers, established geospatial metadata standards (such as ISO 19139, FGDC CSDGM) and metadata tools are in general too difficult, painful, or buggy to adopt without specialized staffing. Our attempts at solving the practicality issues we encountered was to go back to a format agnostic metadata model (http://lab.usgin.org/groups/metadata-interest-group/recommendations-metadata-content-describe-geoscience-resources) that could be implemented in something as simple as MS Excel (http://repository.stategeothermaldata.org/uri_gin/aasg/dlio/767) or as a custom app – the Metadata Wizard (http://mw.usgin.org/). The Metadata Wizard’s goal was to make metadata creation as painless as possible while allowing the support of multiple metadata standards and profiles. We prototyped the Metadata Wizard in the Drupal 6 CMS because of our familiarity with it and because of Drupal’s extended library of modules.
Other issues on the agenda:
- IT&I Business Meeting Friday
- Finalizing the “Science on Drupal” session for the summer meeting
- Intro to Drupal : Jerry? Erin?
- Show and Tell:
- Thomas Huang – JPL
- Bruce Caron – NMRI
- Helen Conover – GHRC?
- Jerry Pan – ORNL
- Rahul Ramachandran – UAH
- Andy Maffei - WHOI
- Others?
CALL IN INFO: Topic: IT & I July 6, 2011 Time: 1:00 pm, Central Daylight Time (Chicago, GMT-05:00)
Call-In Information:
To start the audio portion of the Personal Conference meeting
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Attendee access code: 231 367 82
- Call-in toll number (US/Canada) should only be used if the primary number does not work.
To start the online portion of the Personal Conference meeting
1. Go to https://esipfed.webex.com 2. Click the “Meeting Center” tab 3. Select the IT&I meeting If a password is required, enter the Meeting Password: 23136782
ESIP IT & I Telecon May 11 2010 at 02:00 PM ET
- Attendees: Erin, Ken Keiser, Rick Martin, Jerry Pan, Tyler Stevens, Rahul Ramachandran, Bruce Caron
Agenda:
- Last call for IT workshops, breakout session proposals for the Summer Meeting
- ESIP IT&I Breakout session
- Review existing agenda for the Summer Meeting
- ESIP Commons Publication status
- Products and Services - Ken Keiser
Task 3. Metadata for Customized Product-Services Many Federation members offer virtual, hybrid products-services that are created on- demand. Full metadata descriptions require new standards that are robust enough to describe and invoke these offerings. We will explore new metadata options for our members that capture the description, capabilities, and provenance of such products, and their impacts on cataloging. ESIP Community Benefits: Better description of innovative Federation products and services Cost: $6K to setup and implement metadata extensions for several virtual data products that are redirected by the testbed, as identified by the Products and Services Committee.
Meeting Notes IT Workshops and Breakout Sessions
- IQ Cluster - Greg L.
- ISO Session - Teb Habberman (need to connect Thomas with Ted)
- Semantic Web Cluster (Peter Fox)
- Preservation Ontology - Hook Hua
- Cloud Computing - Phil/Rick/Thomas
- Data Preservation Track 4
- Provenance
- Discovery
- Earth Science Collaboratory
- Science on Drupal
- Session 1: Intro to Drupal
- Session 2: Show and Tell (Modules)
- Session 3: Birds of Feather
Product and Services Testbed Proposal Ideas:
- Drupal module to store metadata (follows FGDC/ISO specs)
ESIP IT & Interop Telecon Apr 6 2010 at 02:00 PM ET
- Attendees: Bruce, Curt, Hook, Erin, Carol, Chris
- Agenda for ESIP meeting
- Business to discuss at ESIP meeting
- Interoperability packet from Innovim
- complete package on wiki as Powerpoint: are they done?
- add to Drupal site when ready to go, make more searchable, edit and supplement as needed
- maybe go into the Publication Mechanism???
- need to get it used and make it into a living resource
- Publication Mechanism
- Google Knol too limited; could be moribund
- Probably Drupal
- Rahul + Sunil ready to roll with Drupal
- Interoperability packet from Innovim
- Mode of tackling Business issues
- Have a facilitator for now that can push along before the meeting, then finish up at the F2F at ESIP
- Rahul (or delegate) for Publication mechanism (?)
- BTW, are these publications living resources (editable over time), or fixed like a traditional pub?
- versioning problematic for registries, though see PubMed model
- Or maybe we have two classes/stages: living resources -> stable pub
- BTW, are these publications living resources (editable over time), or fixed like a traditional pub?
- Karl/Chris with support from Erin for Innovim Interoperability Package
- Think about how new content would get added
- Rahul (or delegate) for Publication mechanism (?)
- Have a facilitator for now that can push along before the meeting, then finish up at the F2F at ESIP
- Workshops
- Drupal for Science ?
- Bring together drupalizers in fed w/people wanting to learn about it as a framework
- Start small with one session this summer, then expand later
- Carol: May have more workshops than space Tues-Wed, but Thurs. is breakouts that can take overflow workshop topics
- Bruce: See Best Practices for Workshops
- Drupal for Science ?
- Breakouts?
- ESIP ITIC breakout to cover business and planning
- Coordination with other clusters vs. ITIC-hosted activities? Too many clusters? With too many overlapping members?
- Carol: Possibly ITIC may adopt the ESC cluster? Or just the cluster goals?
- Advantage might be seed funding for some early efforts
- Chris: suggest adding this to topics of business section (Chris will be Facilitator)
- Carol: Possibly ITIC may adopt the ESC cluster? Or just the cluster goals?
- Business to discuss at ESIP meeting
- Walkon topic: Have committees help out with visioneering on future meeting things
- Maybe Collaboration, esp. for Washington meeting
- Add to Future Meeting Themes
""Rants and Raves Webinar 2011 Series - March 02 at 02:00 PM EST""
As part of its Rants and Raves Webinar series, ESIP IT&I presents a talk by Dr. Brand Neimann.
Title: Build an ESIP Data.gov and the Atlas of Science in the Cloud
Short Abstract: During a recent FESIP Visualization Telecon (November 8, 2010), I suggested that ESIP build a Semantic Web application for Data.gov and that I would like to help and show that for the Winter Meeting Poster Session on January 4, 2011. This presentation shows how the ESIP Drupal Web Site and Media Wiki content can be turned into a Data.gov database application using Gov 2.0 cloud platform tools that have been used in a series of Data Science Products.
Slides: http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/8232/=BrandNiemann01042011.ppt
Bio: Brand Niemann is the Director and Senior Data Scientist of the Semantic Community and former Senior Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Other Issues on the Agenda: - Planning for the summer meeting
1. Please join my meeting, Wednesday, March 02 at 02:00 PM EST.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/321055673
2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.
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Meeting ID: 321-055-673
Rants and Raves Webinar 2011 Series Kickoff - February 02 at 02:00 PM EST
The ESIP Information Technology and Interoperability Committee continues its Rants and Raves Webinar series. The Rants and Raves Webinar provides a platform to any ESIP member to present any Information Technology and Interoperability related issues, seek suggestions/ideas or present cool new technology useful to the ESIP community. Dr. Kuo will present a proposal for a data analysis environment based on his perspective as a practicing scientist.
Improving Interoperability and Science Productivity: Proposal for A Data Analysis Environment
By Dr. Kwo-sen Kuo, Principal Scientist at Caelum Research Corp.
There is currently a serious lack of Earth science data interoperability. Combining/Fusing data products even from the same instrument, say MODIS, (but for different science disciplines, such as atmosphere, ocean, land, etc.) is often a laborious undertaking, let alone data from different instruments or platforms. A Data Analysis Environment is therefore proposed to make data fusion easier for the scientist users to improve data interoperability and, in turn, science productivity. Motivations, requirements, and envisioned functionalities of the environment will be discussed at this meeting.
Other Issues on the Agenda: - Addressing Erin’s Collaboration Check-in questionaire Telecon Instructions:
1. Please join my meeting, Wednesday, February 02 at 02:00 PM EST. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/584109752
2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.
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