Community concept mapping activity March 2020 through July 2020

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Objective: Between March 2020 and July 2020, we aim to create a small collection of concept maps that ESIP participants are encouraged to contribute to. This collection of concept maps will focus on a hypothetical use-case for a high-level challenge. In this case, the use-case focuses on a climate adaptation challenge for poultry agriculture in the Chesapeake watershed (below). Selected concepts within the collection of concept maps (the concept map "soup") will lead to other concept maps that describe knowledge tools (e.g. web applications, searchable online repositories), data products, and the underlying technologies (e.g. data services, machine learning techniques). The "path" taken from higher-level concepts to technology components represents a notional data-to-decisions pathway.

What we need from you: No individual has the sufficient knowledge to reproduce a comprehensive data-to-decisions pathway. We have sketched out a notional pathway, and hope that you can contribute filling in that pathway by contributing your expertise at various spots along the pathway. The figure below gives you a rough idea of what we mean:
2020-03-20.Concept map icons for the data-to-decisions demo path wiki page.jpg

Why we're doing this:

  • So that professionals like yourself are able to start at an applied challenge and work back towards how technologies of interest to the ESIP community can be integrated to solve that challenge.
  • So that the community can start experimenting with using natural language processing methods to parse human-readable concept maps. Such maps are not as machine-readable as, say, an ontology crafted in OWL. However, such maps are an effective way to communicate with stakeholders, and can also be repurposed to inform machine-assisted discovery of data and information relevant to a real-world challenge.


Scenario:
The concept map below represents a hypothetical sketch of the subset of climate adaptation challenges for the Chesapeake watershed. A inter-county task force ("task force") assembled various stakeholders (e.g. business owners, critical government infrastructure operators, economic planners, scientists, environmental engineers, etc) and created a concept map to communicate the stakeholder's collective perception of the challenge. Further to that, the task force has charged a small team to develop a technology plan that would support decision-making within the scope of issues outlined the concept map. The poultry agriculture industry is faced with pressing concerns, and the team decides to start developing the technology plan focused on the poultry industry, but mindful that the technology plan needs to expand to other concerns later.

How to browse the hypothetical use case: Click only on the orange-colored nodes as you navigate the concept map soup. These orange colored nodes contain a pathway that includes technology components that have been partially filled in. We are seeking concept map contributions from you for concepts along this partially complete pathway.