ESC Charrette

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

Introduction

Following on the idea of the EarthCube Charrette, we will look at the key features needed for the Earth Science Collaboratory. In fact, we will leverage the results of the EC Charrette to look at the top-ranked features first. We will then look to answer the following questions:

Charrette Questions

  1. What role does/should this feature have in the Earth Science Collaboratory? Is it:
    1. a core goal
    2. a secondary goal
    3. a key supporting feature
    4. a secondary supporting feature
    5. irrelevant
  2. What kind of user and/or stakeholder benefits from the feature?
    1. Discipline Science Researcher
    2. Interdisciplinary Researcher
    3. Early-Career Scientist
    4. Applications Researcher
    5. Applications User
    6. Science Assessment Panel
    7. Citizen Scientist
    8. University Educator
    9. K-12 Educator
  3. How do they benefit?
  4. Is there any sample/existing implementation of this feature?

Charrette Features

Drawing from the Earth Cube Charrette Features...

EC v. ESC Spreadsheet

Charrette Summary

General notes

  1. We began with top rated EarthCube Charrette individual capabilities that seemed most relevant to ESC. This took them out of context, though this was not always a bad thing.
  2. Having a trained facilitator for future charrette-like sessions would be helpful.
  3. NSF representation was invaluable, helping to provide context and clarification.

N1 - Social networking sites to support knowledge sharing between disparate teams of computer science/geo scientists

  • We need to define the social network FIRST, before we worry about what kind of site or social feature will support it. A job for the ESC Human Factors track.