Federation of Earth Science Information Partners

EGIDA WorkshopMay 9-11, 2011, Bonn, Germany

ESIP is a venue for connecting, collaborating and innovating across a broad-based, network.

Data Centers

Researchers Application Developers

ESIP fosters connections to make data matter.

The ESIP community is comprised of technical and domain experts across government, industry and academic sectors.

125+ Member Organizations 16% Data Centers 42% Research 41% Applications Developers

Volunteer-driven with member-led focus areas: Air Quality, Climate Change Education, Data Preservation, Discovery,

Earth Science Education, Energy, IT, Semantic Web, Water.

ESIP is managed by the Foundation for Earth Science with funding from NASA, NOAA and EPA.

Data Re-useUse agreed upon standards

Human ConnectionsFace-to-Face Meetings (Jan, July)

Telecons

Collaborative Info SharingGroup workspaces on wiki

Image modified from Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (2005)

Technical Expertise Sharing and Networking Wide Range of Tech Topics (e.g. Data Stewardship, Interoperability) Science Domain Topics (e.g. Energy, Air Quality) Education Topics (e.g. Climate Change, Data Usage in Classrooms)

Community Engagement Participation in the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Professional Development (Data Management, Communication, Evaluation) Outreach (ISRSE, NSTA, AGU)

Best Practices and Consensus Building

ESIP is a GEO Observer Org. and Participates in its Activities:

Architecture Data Committee Architecture Implementation Pilots GCI Coordination Team

User Interface Committee ESIP Air Quality WG seeded GEO Air Quality Community

of Practice GEO Water Cycle CoP to partner with ESIP on GEO

projects GEO Science & Tech. Committee following ESIP

citation work

Air Quality & Health Applications

ESIP AQ WG & GEO AQ CoP: Int’ l participation OGC standards (.. netCDF), CF

Conventions, ISO meta Share software code, best practices

AQ Data Network Seven servers, three clients AQ Community Catalog for finding Application for EPA Except. Events

AQ Data Network is still fragile, incomplete and inadequate for real apps, but demonstrates

fine grained data networking with GEOSS infrastructure and process

On the Web Website: esipfed.org Wiki: wiki.esipfed.org Email List: www.lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-all Twitter: @ESIPFed

Contact Carol Meyer, Executive Director, carolbmeyer@esipfed.org Erin Robinson, Information & Virtual Community Director,

erinrobinson@esipfed.org