Open Standards Role in EarthCube (AGU 2013)

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Open Standards Role

in EarthCube

George Percivall, OGC Chief Engineer

AGU Session IN43B

Emerging Concepts for Cyberinfrastructure in the Geosciences

12 December 2013

Copyright © 2013, Open Geospatial Consortium

Why EarthCube? To Advance our Science

Aeronomy

Solar Terrestial

Petrology Geochemis

tryTectonics

EarthScope

IES

Biological Ocean

Geomomorphology &

land use dyn

ChemOcean

High Perf Computing

Emerging Frontiers

(BIO)

Software

Data

Networks

EarthCube CI

ANT Astro &

Geospace

ANT Earth Sciences

ANT Glaciology

ANT Ocean & Atm. Sci.

ANT Organisms & Ecosys.

ARC Natural

Sciences

ARC Obs. Network

(AON) ARC Social Sciences

ARC Sys Science (ARCSS)

NCAR

Biological Infrastruct

ure Envir. Biology

Atm. Chemistry

Clm & Large Scale

Dyn

Paleo-Climate

Phy. & Dyn Met.

Magneto-spheric Phys.

HydrologySediment Geology

and Paleobio

EAR Ed.

Geophysics

Geobio & Low Temp Geochem

Phys Ocean

OceanDrilling

OCE ED

GeoPRISM

Marine Geology & Geo-phys

OOI

Source of slide: Eva Zanzerkia, NSF

An alternative approach to respond to daunting science and cyberinfrastructure challenges

EarthCube is an outcome and a

process

EarthCube: next

generation CI to transform

the conduct of geosciences

Unidata

IRISIEDA

NCAR

OOI

CUASHI

The process must• Engage all stakeholders: Geosciences end-users

Geosciences and CI facilitiesCI and Computer Science specialists

• Build EarthCube iteratively, with community input and assessment in yearly intervals

• EarthCube built on existing resources, understanding that different geosciences communities are cannot be uniformly served

DataOne

The EarthCube Strategy

3Source of slide: Eva Zanzerkia, NSF

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What are the Goals of EarthCube?

EarthCube aims to:• Transform research and data management practices within

the geosciences community over the next decade• Provide unprecedented new capabilities, including access

to data and visualization tools, to researchers and educators

• Vastly improve the productivity of the geosciences community

• Accelerate research on the Earth system• Provide a knowledge management framework for the

geosciences


http://earthcube.org/page/about



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© GEO Secretariat

Open Data and a Culture of Cooperation

• EarthCube is based on a network of enthusiasts willing to make the sharing of data a reality. But is just having open data enough? – Open data will not accelerate the process a scientist team needs to

go through to understand, reformat and use the data.

• Letter to Editor response by 44 persons in EarthCube – “Although the question of who pays for open data is important…– A greater challenge lies in implementing institutional and cultural

changes required before data from government-sponsored research can be openly shared”

– Science 29 November 2013: V. 342 pp. 1041-4042

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Cyberinfrastructure for Geosciences

• Cyberinfrastructure depends upon agreements for open interfaces and open encodings

• Development of cyberinfrastructure for Geosciences need to take into account these open agreements, including open interfaces and open encodings.

• Once open agreements are in place, it is essential to have in place policy and procedures, and a governance body for maintaining those agreements.


EarthCube Stakeholder Alignment Data and Principles for TestGovernance Meeting

Support from the National Science Foundation is deeply appreciated: NSF-VOSS EAGER 0956472, “Stakeholder Alignment in Socio-Technical Systems,” NSF OCI RAPID 1229928, “Stakeholder Alignment for EarthCube,” NSF GEO-SciSIP-STS-OCI-INSPIRE 1249607, “Enabling Transformation in the Social Sciences, Geosciences, and Cyberinfrastructure,” NSF I-CORPS 1313562 “Stakeholder Alignment for Public-Private Partnerships”

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Nick Berente, University of GeorgiaBurcu Bolukbasi, UIUC

Leslie DeChurch, Georgia Tech UniversityCourtney Flint, Utah State University

Michael Haberman, UIUCJohn L. King, University of Michigan

Eric Knight, University of SydneyBarbara Lawrence, UCLA

Ethan Masella, Brandeis UniersityCharles Mcelroy, Case Western

Reserve UniversityBarbara Mittleman, Nodality, Inc.

Mark Nolan, UIUCMelanie Radik, Brandeis University

Namchul Shin, Pace UniversitySusan Winter, University of Maryland

Ilya Zaslavsky, UCSD

Where such standards exist, EarthCube should use formal, internationally approved, geoscience-wide data access/sharing standards and protocols (e.g. ISO, OGC). (v100 R2)Where there are not formal, international standards, please indicate your priority between, on the one hand, EarthCube encouraging development or extension of formal, internationally approved, geoscience-wide data access/sharing standards and protocols (0) versus EarthCube have its own systems of standards and protocols (1). (v101 R2)

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Formal international standardsEC encourage where no standards

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© GEO Secretariat

Recent EarthCube awards by NSF

• Building Blocks• Conceptual Architecture• Research Networks• Test Governance – an Agile approach

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Agile development benefits from prototyping

• Manifesto for Agile Software Development– Individuals and interactions

over processes and tools– Working software

over comprehensive documentation– Customer collaboration

over contract negotiation– Responding to change

over following a plan

• Innovation and creativity in development occurs most reliably with multiple prototypes

GEOSS connects Observations to Decisions

GEOSS approach relevant to EarthCube

GEOSS Interoperability Arrangements- From the GEOSS 10 Year Plan Reference Document -

• Interoperability through open interfaces– Interoperability specifications agreed to among contributing

systems– Access to data and information through service interfaces

• Open standards and intellectual property rights– GEOSS adopting standards; agreed upon by consensus,

preference to formal international standards– GEOSS will not require commercial or proprietary standards– Multiple software implementations compliant with the open

standards should exist– Goal is that at least one of the implementations should be

available to all implementers "royalty-free"

GEOSS Data Sharing Principles

• Full and Open Exchange of Data

• Data and Products at Minimum Time delay and Minimum Cost

• Free of Charge or Cost of Reproduction

GEOSS Information System and GEOSS DataCORE

• GEO Portal - new version released last week

• More than 14 million discoverable Resources

• More than 1.2 million are

• Brokered Search of >20 Community Catalogues

• Example search: 1081 datasets for Land Cover available as GEO DataCORE

© GEO Secretariat

www.geoportal.org

http://www.geoportal.org/

InformationViewpoint

ComputationalViewpoint

EngineeringViewpoint

Optimized Design/Development

TechnologyViewpoint

EnterpriseViewpoint

Community Objectives

GEOSS Vision and TargetsSocietal Benefit AreasSystem of Systems/ Interoperability

Abstract/Best Practices

GEOSS AIP Architecture

RM-ODP Viewpoints

Earth Observations Geographic FeaturesSpatial ReferencingMetadata and QualityGEOSS Data-CORE

Catalog/RegistryAccess and OrderProcessing Services Sensor WebUser Identity

Component Types

Information Framework

Use Cases

Services

Tutorials

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EarthCube Cyberinfrastructure

• Agile development and governance• Open Data and a Culture of Cooperation• Building blocks and architecture simultaneously and

iteratively• Coordinating organizations

– ESIP, RDA, Belmont Forum, OGC and many others

• An open community with many opportunities and benefits– http://earthcube.org/


http://earthcube.org/

http://earthcube.org/

ThanksGeorge Percivall, OGCMember of EarthCube

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