ESC Telecon 1

ESC Telecon #1: 8-15-2011

Question: Should we organize around 4 major thrusts (cyberinfrastructure, sociological, programmatic, user stories)?

• Cyberinfrastructure - architecture, standards, reusable services and components
• Sociological - the sociology of adoption, productive interaction
• Programmatic - how to coordinate efforts across different agencies and umbrella groups
• User Stories - Use Cases for construction of ESC + Outreach Stories

Discussion

• Maybe start with User Stories?
• First, what is the User Model (e.g., different kinds of stakeholders)
• If different working groups, then what are the charters and when can we integrate?
• Start with User Stories/Stakeholders, then look at subgrouping
• As we do User Stories, identify CI, Soc., and Programmatic implications of the stories
• Template for use cases: these are the things we need to identify
• See NSF Workshop: Understanding Infrastructure: Tensions and Dynamics(?)
  • Review on how historical infrastructure has developed, lessons learned
  • Looks at socio-technical aspect, tensions from change
  • AI: Mark will dig that up
• Also European study on what researchers want (Parse-Insight? Surfshare? Other?)
• AI Chris (Done: User Stories): Set up page wiki for User Stories

Question: How should we respond to NSF EarthCube initiative?

• Fast-track program around data interoperability
• Governance structure to make interop sustainable over the longer term
• Holding telecoms with "community"
• Charrette in Oct.(?)
• Community to provide ideas on how to achieve these goals
  • Vette at Charette
  • EAGER award (no peer review)
    • 300K to demo capabilities
  • + 6 mo: Winners down-select to peer-reviewed process for 1-2M awards
  • +12 mo: Start building infrastructure
• Options
  • Assist on Discovery Cluster white paper?
  • Author ESC white paper?
  • Other?

Discussion

• 2 Foci: governance and data interoperability (interworkability?)
• What about overall ESIP white paper? Need to talk to excom folks.
• But just in case, put a short discussion in paper on ESIP governance, then do Discovery Cluster governance
  • Our model is informed by Open Provenance Model
  • Not just standards but also conventions across the community
  • BUT only a handful of active people on this
• One paper or two papers?
  • Writeup needed at excom level summarizing spectrum of clusters, then discovery in detail, then ESC
  • Or two papers, referencing each other, one on governance (only), one on discovery
• Is white paper equivalent to an entry for EAGER grant?
• Who is going to the charrette?
  • One person or two? e.g., Carol at exec level, +somebody from Discovery Cluster
• AI (Done): Mark - find out if Excom is going to write a governance paper (others chime in as necessary)
• AI : Ruth: start with abstract and outline paper so others can volunteer or be assigned writing assignments
• Will include discussion on governance

Other

• Timeline: need to start planning winter meeting? next telecon...