The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners Peter Fox,
President (RPI), @ESIPPres February 2015 (also [email protected])
http://esipfed.org http://wiki.esipfed.org
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History Formed in 1998 by NASA National Academy report
recommended the creation of a federation 24 original Working
Prototypes-ESIPs 12 research 12 applications Later expanded to
include NASA DAACs Constitutional Convention (1999-2000)
Constitution and Bylaws Foundation for Earth Science (2001)
Nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation The Federations secretariat SINCE
THEN it has been an interesting ride
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ESIP Vision To be a leader in promoting the collection,
stewardship and use of Earth science data, information and
knowledge that is responsive to societal needs.
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ESIP Mission (Shared Agenda) To support the networking and data
dissemination needs of our members and the global community by
linking the functional sectors of observation, research,
application, education and ultimate use of Earth science..
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The ESIP Federation is A broad-based, distributed community of
Earth science data and information technology practitioners Some
partners are networks themselves Unidata, DataOne, NEON, US-GIN,
Data Conservancy, OOI, WHOI, National Phenology Network, USGS
Community for Data Integration* NASA, NOAA, EPA ESIP Partners are
affiliated with other networks: AGU Earth and Space Science
Informatics (ESSI) Group on Earth Observations (GEO) EarthCube
Research Data Alliance (RDA)
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ESIP Community Data Providers Data Archives Tool & System
Developers Application Developers Users Multiple Science Domains
Cross-Agency Academia Corporate
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Types & Governance Type I: data centers (21/24) NASA DAACs
NOAA (NGDC, NODC, NCDC) Type II: researchers and tool developers
(46/74) Academia Government labs Type III: application developers
(28/62) Commercial Nonprofit Educational Type IV: strategic
partners (2/2) NASA NOAA ESIP Assembly 1 partner, 1 vote Annual
Business Meeting at ESIP Winter Meeting Leadership elected from
Assembly representatives
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ESIP Groups Standing Committees Data Stewardship Education
Information Technology and Interoperability Products and Services
Administrative Committees Constitution and Bylaws Finance and
Appropriations Partnership Working groups Air Quality Climate
Education Energy & Climate Visioneers Clusters Cloud Computing
Decisions Discovery Documentation Drupal Earth Science
Collaboratory Geospatial Open Source Semantic Web Visualization
http://esipfed.org/collaboration- areas
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Two Organizations: ESIP Federation & Foundation for Earth
Science separated ESIP Federation as a community remains unchanged.
Foundation for Earth Science provides management, operational and
logistical services to the ESIP Federation, unchanged. ESIP
Federation Foundation for Earth Science Service Agreement
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FES Coordination for ESIP
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ESIP Transforms Earth Science ESIP provides community
coordination to support interoperability at the data, systems,
human and organizational levels. Outcomes and Outputs: ESIP
Meetings Optimize Collaboration Open Forum for Community- Driven
Collaborations Professional Development for Earth Science Data
Management Innovation Hub for Experimental Development
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ESIP is not a standards body
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Strategic Plan 2014 Revisited 2009 strategic plan and goals,
documented accomplishmentshttp://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/2009-
2013_Strategic_Accomplishmentshttp://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/2009-
2013_Strategic_Accomplishments Revised strategic goals based on
community inputs Drafted action and performance oriented
roadmaphttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16f8heiZX3KoLCPfxMKTbROiG-
es6y2I7m9zkuXP-964/edit#gid=0https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16f8heiZX3KoLCPfxMKTbROiG-
es6y2I7m9zkuXP-964/edit#gid=0 2015 Finalize strategic roadmap Get
involved - Your inputs are important, and very much welcome Work
with Committee and Collaboration Area leaders to align work plans
with roadmap (mapping of goals and tasks) Create wiki page to
document background, status, lessons learned, and to manage
execution of the plan Get Involved Contact Emily Law,
[email protected]@jpl.nasa.gov
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What ESIP has done one e.g.
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The GEO AQ CoP aims to connect and enable air quality data
providers and users for effective air quality science and
management 15 Air quality: Many Observations, Many
Applications
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AR-09-01b: GEO Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) Testing
and Using the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) Data Search Facets
DatasetParamete r Instr.Platfor m Space Time Sharing is facilitated
by the GEOSS Common Infrastructure Catalog of AQ Data though the
GEOSS Clearingho use
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GEO AQ-CoP Main interaction through the open, participatory
website: CoP People Member Projects DataSpaces
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GEO AQ CoP Poster What is the GEO AQ CoP? Self- organized group
working together to foster application of Eos to AQ Rather than
competing, it connects and supports the activities of other data
integration communities and initiatives CoP Activities for GEOSS
AIP 3, AQ Community Catalog WCS Server Software, Co-developed,
Shared CoP Activities for Users Catalog and help access to AQ-
relevant data and tools Foster collaborative projects and
global-regional integration
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Things ESIP Does ~ Now Community-generated Best Practices (e.g.
Citation) Testbed (e.g. Identifiers, Ontology) Community
Conventions (e.g. Discovery) Professional Development Technical
Workshops Non-technical Workshops (e.g. Evaluation, Communication)
Data Management Short Course/Workshops Outreach Education (e.g.
annual teacher workshop on climate change) Professional Societies
(e.g. AGU, GSA) International Efforts (e.g. GEO, ISRSE) Provide
Venue for Collaboration and Connections Both virtual and in-person
Support with suite of collaboration tools Provide mini-grants to
make stuff happen
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Data Stewardship Committee 2014 (Chair: Ruth Duerr) First
results from ESIPs participation in the Data Citation Implementers
Group available for review Achieving human and machine
accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications. PeerJ
PrePrints 2:e697v2
http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.697v2http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.697v2
2015
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Citations/editor_r
eviewer_guidelines
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Citations/editor_r
eviewer_guidelines Data Stewardship Maturity Matrix Defining data
publication (see session) Continued PCCS work, including Eos and
D-Lib articles Dynamic data citation workshop Justin Goldstein
(USGCRP) new chair Get involved Mailing
list:http://rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-preservehttp://rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-preserve
Telecons
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardshiphttp://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship
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Citation, IDs years ahead Originated in the Stewardship Cluster
(now Preservation and Stewardship Committee) From the community -
dates back to late 2010. Guideline in late 2011, and adopted by the
ESIP Assembly early in 2012
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Citations/provi
der_guidelines
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Citations/provi
der_guidelines ESIP Resolution related to joint declaration on DC
principles:
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Endorsing_the_Joint_Declaration_of_Data_Cit
ation_Principles
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Endorsing_the_Joint_Declaration_of_Data_Cit
ation_Principles And identifiers:
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Identifiers/Use
Cases
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Identifiers/Use
Cases Duerr et al, 2011, On the utility of identification schemes
for digital earth science data: an assessment and recommendations,
Earth Science Informatics: 10.1007/s12145-011-0083-6
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Resolution The ESIP General Assembly, Acknowledging the
importance of accessible and reliable data to the processes of
sound, reproducible scholarship and the role that data citation
plays in ensuring this, Noting that the global research community
as a whole has not yet accepted that data should be considered
legitimate, citable products of research, and Reaffirming our
commitment to the ESIP Data Citation Guidelines for Data Providers
and Archives for Earth science data which not only acknowledges
data in this role; but also provides detailed instructions for
citing Earth science data, Recognizing that ESIP endorsement of the
Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles could increase
support for data citation within the global community, Endorses the
Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles which, while a very
high level statement about data citation, is entirely consistent
with the ESIP Data Citation Guidelines for Data Providers and
Archives.
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Data Management Short Course The Short Course was funded by
NOAA and developed by community over 18 months All content is
modular material in ppt, web and video formats Workshops have been
given at AGU, AMS, IPY and material has been integrated into some
I-School curriculum
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Earth Data OpenSearch Conventions ESIP Discovery cluster
brought together OGC, CWIC, CEOS to agree on conventions API covers
> 93% of query needs according to ECHO metrics Two-step
searching is the burden of the API ESIP/CWIC/CEOS best practices
are dynamic Adoption rate is very promising
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IT & Interoperability Committee 2014 (Chair: Matt Austin)
IPython and Wakari for Earth Science Richard Signell, USGS
Mesonets, CubeSats, and Drones, Oh My! Emerging EarthScience
Technologies in Disaster Management, John Evans from GlobalScience
Technologies, INC. Experiences with Structured Data for the
Discovery and Publishing of Ocean Drilling Data, Doug Fils
Consortium for Ocean Leadership Data Management Maturity Model,
Harry Furukawa, AGU Keeping Up with Citizen Science and the Next
Wave of Big Data Annette Schloss, UNH Access and use of federal
Earth science data, Ethan McMahon EPA Presentation on Evaluating
the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation Project, and
ToolMatch Service Testbed Project, Christine White, ESRI 2015
Focused on collaboration of interesting topics relevant to data
interoperability for the Earth Sciences Ethan Davis (UCAR) new
chair Get Involved Wiki: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.p
hp/Interoperability_and_Techn ology http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.p
hp/Interoperability_and_Techn ology Monthly telecons 1 st Thursday
3:00 Eastern Time
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Products & Services Committee 2014 (Chair: Christine White)
Testbed - http://testbed.esipfed.orghttp://testbed.esipfed.org
Website rebranded (thanks Erin!) Groups documenting their projects
on the site 2 projects coming to close, 4 newly funded 6 FUNding
Friday awards 2015 RFP for Testbed projects coming out in April,
October Project hosting opportunities Strengthen connections
between completed projects and ESIP member research/work Happy Hour
FUNding Friday was a success, plan to repeat Get involved Monthly
Telecon - 3rd Tuesday at 2pm ET
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Products_and_Services
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ESIP Testbed http://testbed.esipfed.org/ Next CFP: April
2015
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Funded Projects Testbed, April RFP Evaluating the ESIP
Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation ToolMatch Service Testbed
Project Proposal Testbed, October RFP Disaster Life Cycle:
Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture ToolMatch
Service Project to Expand Community Engagement An entity linking
service for documents and datasets in Earth and environmental
sciences Connect, Share and Discover ESIP Research and Expertise
using VIVO FUNding Friday Working Group Syndicated Content Tool
Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories Leveraging
the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water
Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support Enhancing and
Educating with the WxSat Mobile App HDFCRAFT Making Earth Data Fun!
ToolMatch Extension
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Agriculture and Climate Cluster 2014 (Chairs: Bill Teng, Nancy
Hoebelheinrich) Cluster session at Summer meeting; developed
Cluster Wiki page. Explored collaborations with USDA Long-Term
Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network and Regional Climate Hub.
Began compilation of NASA and other satellite data for LTAR and
Climate Hubs (http://bit.ly/1CSEDpp)http://bit.ly/1CSEDpp
Contributed ideas & contacts for Plenary sessions & two
breakout sessions on topic of Food Resiliency for Winter 2015 mtg
2015 With LTAR and Climate Hubs, collaboratively develop use cases
for satellite and ground data Develop Survey for ESIP membership
and outside collaborators to ascertain pressing issues to which Ag
& Climate Cluster can contribute analyses & problem solving
Expand Cluster membership & develop collaborations with other
ESIP or Earth science-focused groups Get Involved
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Agriculture_and_Climate
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Data Study Working Group 2014 (Chair: Anne Wilson) Released
workshop report, Planning for a Community Study of Scientific Data
Infrastructure,
http://esipfed.org/node/2638http://esipfed.org/node/2638 Presented
work at SciDataCon 2014,
Actualizing_an_Effective,_Sustainable_Science_Data_Infrastructure.pptx
Actualizing_an_Effective,_Sustainable_Science_Data_Infrastructure.pptx
Provided input to NITRD RFI,
NITRD_RFI_ESIPDataStudy_20141114_final.pdfNITRD_RFI_ESIPDataStudy_20141114_final.pdf
Published EOS forum piece, Realizing the Value of a National Asset:
Scientific Data,
https://eos.org/opinions/realizing-value-national-asset-scientific-datahttps://eos.org/opinions/realizing-value-national-asset-scientific-data
2015 Investigation of potential opportunities NRCs Next Decadal
Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space,
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Session/4122
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Session/4122
Possible BRDI study on fiscal sustainability of data repositories
Get Involved
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Decadal_Survey
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Disaster Life Cycle Cluster 2014 (Chairs: Emily Law, Karen Moe)
Established cluster objective and mission Explored other related
activities (e.g., CEOS/WGISS) and available data products (e.g.,
E-DECIDER) Co-convened oral and poster session with AGU Natural
Hazards Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture
testbed 2015 Deliver and exercise Collaborative Common Operating
Picture testbed Connect with GOESS Architecture Implementation
Pilot Develop Disaster Life Cycle Information Architecture Get
Involved Attend our Winter Meeting session and/or contact Karen or
Emily Join our monthly
teleconhttp://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Disastershttp://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Disasters
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Documentation Cluster 2014 (Chairs: Ed Armstrong, Ted Habermann
) Attribute Convention for Data Discovery Version 1.3 Approved in
December 2014
(http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ACDD)http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ACDD
Documenting the Big Earth Data Initiative (BEDI) -
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Category:Documentation_Connecti
ons 2015 Encoding metadata groups/attributes in HDF and netCDF Get
involved Wiki:
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Category:Documentation_Cluster
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Category:Documentation_Cluster
Monthly telecons 3 rd Thursday 2:00 Eastern Time
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ACDD Attribute Conventions for Data Discovery The ACDD is an
ESIP community convention for data discovery designed with netCDF3
and netCDF4 Classic in mind. Originally, created by Unidata ESIP
Documentation Cluster established governance method to approve a
new version Version 1.3 http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ACDD
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Drupal Working Group 2014 (Chairs: Adam Shepherd, David
Bassendine) 6 webinars from Drupal experts (YouTube:
http://goo.gl/B0t57T)http://goo.gl/B0t57T 2 ESIPers supported to
attend Drupalcon Austin 2014 Growing ScienceOnDrupal community
(http://goo.gl/w4KBJY)http://goo.gl/w4KBJY Saw Drupal recognized as
Top-10 Open Source project by opensource.com
(http://goo.gl/1MqP7B)http://goo.gl/1MqP7B 2015 Supporting ESIPers
to attend DrupalCon & Drupal Camps More expert webinars &
virtual office hours (Drupal help) 1st inaugural ScienceOnDrupal
Code Sprint - Thursday, Jan. 8th 10:30am, Dupont room Get Involved
https://groups.drupal.org/science-on-drupal See Adam Shepherd or
David Bassendine
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Energy & Climate WG 2014 (Chairs: Richard Eckman, Ana
Privette) Re-established support for GEO energy work plan tasks,
bringing together multiple Federal agency data providers at the
ESIP Summer Meeting to discuss EO energy application successes and
challenges. 2015 Data provenance, access, transparency issues for
energy apps (Breakout session at this meeting) Stakeholder
engagement and observation gap identification (upcoming NCSE
meeting in late Jan.) Support 2nd USGEO Earth Observation
Assessment energy SBA Get Involved Attend our Winter Meeting
session and/or contact Ana or Richard
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Energy_and_Climate
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Semantic Web Cluster 2014 (Chair: Tom Narock) ToolMatch effort
to link data and tools in discussion with national agencies to
create production systems outside of ESIP -
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ToolMatch
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ToolMatch Earth science ontology
portal now available and serving as community hub -
http://semanticportal.esipfed.org/http://semanticportal.esipfed.org/
2015 Focus on ontology governance efforts and reuse Increase
semantic infrastructure available to community Semantic Technology
Expo Get Involved Contact Tom Narock,
[email protected]@marymount.edu Telecons: 4th Tuesday at
4pm http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Semantic_Web_Telecons
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Semantic_Web_Telecons
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ESIP Partnerships CDF Council on Data Facilities RDA Research
Data Alliance U-Name-It CODATA, WDS, CDI, ESDIS, EDMC, USGEO
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Defining Collective Impact Initiatives Definition The
commitment of cross- sector actors to come together around a shared
agenda and change their behavior in order to solve a complex
problem Characteristics Social problems & solutions arise from
multiple interacting factors Organizations actively coordinate
actions and share lessons learned Backbone organizations necessary
to support the coordination
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/collective_impact
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ESIP as a Backbone Organization Definition A Backbone
Organization maintains overall strategic coherence, coordinates
day-to-day operations, and manages the implementation of work.
Functions Community Engagement Communication & Outreach
Evaluation Meeting Planning Project Management/Facilitation
Fundraising Other Responsibilities
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/collective_impact
ESIP as a community is on the bleeding edge New technology like
Docker, Schema.org are being assessed and shared all the time Drone
cluster started at 2015 Winter Meeting
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Drone_Cluster Participating in
White House Big Earth Data Initiative (BEDI) with Federal
Partners
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How do governance models support (or discourage) community
engagement? Make it easy easy easy to participate. Low barrier to
entry Allow people to align their day job to the work shared
agenda. Really be a virtual organization, and communicate,
communicate, you get the idea. And there is a whole other talk on
that Use cases (in short)
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Moving into the Social Era We need to use business models that
will allow connected humans with shared interests and goals to work
together [across organizations] and to produce returns - Nilofer
Merchant, 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era
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ESIP Transforms Earth Science ESIP provides community
coordination to support interoperability at the data, systems,
human and organizational levels. Conclusions: Socio-cultural forces
key to success Light touch oversight to allow for community-
drivers to flourish Make collaboration work for your day job
through shared agendas
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ESIP Leadership 2015 Standing Committee Chairs Administrative
Committee Chairs President & Vice President ESIP Type Reps
Peter Fox Tyler StevensKen Keiser Type I Dani Kinkade Emily Law
Christine WhiteEthan Davis LuAnn Dahlman Justin Goldstein Bill Teng
Type II Steve Richard Type III Ted Habermann
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2015 ESIP Summer Meeting Save the date! July 14-17, 2015
Asilomar Pacific Grove, CA (71 miles south of San Jose, 120 miles
south of San Francisco) RFID Networking Experiment (Opt-in, of
course!) Theme: Data-Driven Community Resilience
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ESIP Online Home page http://esipfed.org Wiki
http://wiki.esipfed.org Commons http://commons.esipfed.org Facebook
http://tinyurl.com/esip-facebook Twitter #esipfed, @ESIPFed,
@ESIPPres#esipfed