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National Data Infrastructure for Earth System Science

National Data Infrastructure for Earth System Science. EarthCube and other efforts globally Clifford Jacobs, National Science Foundation Peter Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Presented at the town hall meeting AGU fall 2011. Outline. Context Nationally Internationally

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National Data Infrastructure for Earth System Science

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  1. National Data Infrastructure for Earth System Science EarthCube and other efforts globally Clifford Jacobs, National Science Foundation Peter Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Presented at the town hall meeting AGU fall 2011

  2. Outline • Context • Nationally • Internationally • EarthCube vision • Initial EarthCube efforts • Long-term vision

  3. We no longer have the gift of time Context

  4. GEO Vision Science foundations for EarthCube “To understand more deeply the planet and its interactions will require the geosciences to take an increasingly holistic approach, exploring knowledge coming from all scientific and engineering disciplines.” “Fostering a sustainable future through a better understanding of our complex and changing planet.” CALL TO ACTION: “Over the next decade, the geosciences community commits to developing a framework to understand and predict responses of the Earth as a system—from the space-atmosphere boundary to the core, including the influences of humans and ecosystems.”

  5. Crossroad Challenges of GEOvision The Dynamic Earth Water:Changing Perspective GEO CI The Changing Climate Geosphere-Biosphere Connections Earth and Life

  6. Research Vessel Sikuliaq EarthScope Observatory Network Arctic Sea Ice Era of Observation and Simulation Oceans Water Earth System Modeling Satellites

  7. Framing the Challenge:Science and Society Transformed by Data • Modern geoscience • Data- and compute-intensive • Integrative, multi-scale • Multi-disciplinary collaborations to address complexity • Individuals, groups, teams, communities • Sea of Data • Age of Observation • Distributed, central repositories, sensor- driven, diverse, etc

  8. Address in the Challenge-Funding:GEO Supports Substantial CI • NSF Budget (FY 2010) $6,926.5 M • Geosciences (GEO) Budget $889.64 M • GEO 2010 investments in CI ~$103 M • New investment: Example • NWSC (NCAR-WY Super Computer Center) • FY 2012 With Partners in Wyoming: • Center Construction ~$70M • Computer Systems ~$30M

  9. Addressing the Challenge-SupportMultiple Modes of Support: A Hallmark of Success • GEO “modes of support” are and will continue to be essential • Focused grants to individual PIs or small groups • Focused programs that are community driven • Small centers • Large national centers • Cyber-enhanced field programs • Cyber-enhanced observing facilities and MREFC projects • NSF-wide initiatives • Education, outreach, and training activities (EOT) • Each mode supports both high-risk, transformative research and practical implementation • Although each mode contributes, the modes often work independent of one another

  10. Some international context • Australia • Europe • UK • But there are more…

  11. E.g. WIRADA • Australia Bureau of Meteorology (BoM, operational agency) and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO, research and application organization) • Science Symposium (Aug, 2011) demonstrated significant progress • Scientists, engineers and informaticists working and meeting together from the start! • http://www.clw.csiro.au/conferences/wirada%2Dsymposium/ • Cooperation for National Environmental Information System

  12. Research Data Storage Infrastructure • A$50M (just started)

  13. nectar.org.au Financed by the Education Investment Fund (EIF) A$47 million (2010 – 2013)

  14. To serve a national research community of several thousand!!

  15. EU Framework Program 7 9th/10th calls • http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/docs/work-programme.pdf • INFRA-2011-1.2.2: Data infrastructures for e-Science • Eu 43M • Closed Nov. 23, 2011 • General objectives: Establish a persistent and robust service infrastructure for scientific data.. • Deployment of generic services for persistent data storage, access and management that assure data provenance, authenticity and integrity and respond to the needs of advanced user communities • Development of an open access, participatory infrastructure for scientific information linking peer-reviewed literature and associated data sets and collections which can be open to non-scientists and to providers of value- added services • Scientific community-driven policy development and service deployment for data generation, provenance, quality assessment, certification, curation, annotation, navigation and management so as to promote the sharing of data and the development of trust • Development and deployment of tools and techniques for the provision of advanced data services notably for data discovery, mining, visualisation and simulation

  16. GeoNETWORK

  17. D4Science (phase II)

  18. GRDI2020

  19. EUPractice.eu

  20. http://www.esdin.eu/

  21. UK • JISC initiative (National Data Infrastructures Study): http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/preservation/nationaldata.aspx (led by Digital Curation Centre) • Managing Research Data (e.g. ADMIRE): http://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/11/29/jisc-managing-research-data-programme-2011-13-new-rdm-infrastructure-projects/ • Data infrastructurEs for Supporting Information Retrieval Evaluation (DESIRE) http://www.promise-noe.eu/events/desire-2011/home • Environmental Virtual Observatory -Pilot (NERC) http://www.environmentalvirtualobservatory.org/

  22. An alternative approach to respond to daunting science and CI challenges EarthCube is an outcome and a process EarthCube will require broad community participation What is EarthCube?

  23. Goal of Earth Cube to transform the conduct of research in geosciences by supporting the development of community-guided cyberinfrastructure to integrate data and information for knowledge management across the Geosciences.

  24. EarthCube Will: • Be a long-term transformation of the practices within the geosciences community spanning at least a decade • Provide unprecedented new capabilities to researchers and educators • Vastly improve the productivity of community and thus accelerating discovery in understanding and predicting the Earth system • Provide a uniform knowledge management framework for all of the geosciences

  25. Unanticipated community engagement and contribution Initial EarthCube efforts

  26. EarthCube Website • ~600 members to the EarthCube website • 114 white paper submission • 185 respondents to user survey • Unknown number of hours of pro bono contributions by community • Unprecedented view of the pulse of the geoscience community

  27. Charrette Attendance • On-site 146 • Not all for the entire 3 ½ days • Attendance was high even on last morning • Virtual • Nov. 1      Virtual 139Nov. 2      Virtual 104Nov. 3      Virtual 63Nov. 4      Virtual 37 (preliminary estimate) • Broad representation of geosciences research community • Including several graduate and post-docs • Representation also included • Other federal agencies • International • Industry • Publishers • Societiesand science organizations • Organizational specialists • ~20 GEO & OCI POs (not at same time) • Representatives from BIO and CISE also in attendance

  28. Immediate Outcomes • Identifying the most important capabilities to be embodied in EarthCube • Defining the initial view of EarthCube • Many “2-pager” papers on new capabilities • Resulted from work at the Charrette • New collaborations enabled by the Charrette • Instructions NSF’s interest in Eager awards post-Charrette • Strategic organizational framework • Development of new capabilities • Progress on critical milestone (developed at Charrette) • EarthCube website was and is an effective tool for community dialog • Labor intensive to monitor and maintain • Bottom line: a new starting place for creative and collaborative ideas, partnerships, and building CI for the geosciences

  29. Milestones • Release of first DCL June 2011 • WebEx presentations June & July 2011 • Establish EarthCube Social Network site August 2011 • Charrette November 2011 • Second DCL December 2011 • EAGER and Supplement Submissions December 2011 – April 2012 • Second Community event May 2012 • Continued community opportunities May 2012 - ?

  30. Are we at the beginning of the great convergence? Path To Action

  31. Discussion Points-- path to action -- • Are there current synergies that can be built on with minimal/ modest investment? • Are there gaps in Data Infrastructures efforts world-wide that EarthCube could address? • What are viable means for international cooperation, collaboration, alliances, etc? • What are effective means to transformation the culture of geosciences?

  32. Question and/or Comment?

  33. Earth–System Knowledge Management System (EarthCube & similar activities) for Discovery Observing Simulating Sharing Collaborating Training  Learning  Informing Broadening Participation

  34. Schematic Depiction of Knowledge Management Building Knowledge Intensity Making Knowledge Visible • (community) Creation • Capacity Building • Face-to-face contact • Competence centers • Community of practices • Management of knowledge processes • Networking – incl. web • Easy Usability • Who knows what • Taxonomy of expertise • Yellow pages • Competence • Uniformity of access Developing a Knowledge Culture Building Knowledge Infrastructure • Global Access • Common communication infrastructure • Access to external /internal information /knowledge/sources • Use of modern methods and tools • Motivation Enablers • Value and culture • Rewarding • Sharing/exchange of knowledge • Shared mindsets and visions • Trust of each other • Bridging generations From A. Boynton, “Exploring Opportunities in Knowledge Management: How to Get Started” Knowledge Management Symposium: Leveraging Knowledge for Business Impact, IBM Consulting, Sydney, 1996

  35. EarthCube Design Elements

  36. Modes of Support A Unifying Architecture and Technology Advances Will Lead to Strategic Convergence on KM Well-Connected elements of KM through EarthCube Loosely or Not Connected

  37. The Internet provided a knowledge system that transformed the modality of science • Unanticipated Outcomes • NSF’s role included influencing the set of standards that were adopted • CIF21 investments must provide a framework of integrated and interactive services Building on the Internet Paradigm Internet for interoperability Interworkability for collaboration

  38. Can we configure our culture to keep pace with technology? Long-term vision for a national data infrastructure for Earth system science

  39. Challenges • The challenges have been defined in countless reports • It is not about technology per say, but its effective use • Increase productivity and capabilities in our personal lives are not reflected in our research jobs • Future visions must focus on increased productivity and capability at end point of use • Affecting change within the current research paradigm

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