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Closing the Gap Between Global Environmental Sensing Needs and Cyber Infrastructure Tools

Explore the unique requirements of global environmental sensing and how cyber infrastructure tools can address them. Discover the importance of multiple data sources, strong spatial-temporal components, and the need for a controlled vocabulary. Get recommendations on building requirements, linking observatories, and leveraging commonalities. Learn how cyber infrastructure can provide naming, authentication, storage, workflow systems, and more.

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Closing the Gap Between Global Environmental Sensing Needs and Cyber Infrastructure Tools

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  1. Closing the Gap Between Global Environmental Sensing Needsand Cyber Infrastructure Tools Jim Gray Jeff Burch Mark EllismanMiron Livny David Maidment Phillip Papadopolis

  2. Experiments & Instruments facts questions facts Other Archives facts answers Literature facts Simulations Premise: 5 year horizon • In the next 5 years • Many CI tools will mature driven by commerce, entertainment, … • Some things will not • What requirements are unique to Global Environmental Sensing and so are unlikely to be served by others?

  3. What is Unique • Multiple data sources: not just one instrument • Satellite data (remote sensing) • Atmospheric, aquatic weather, temperature, …. • Geology, seismology, hydrology, oceanography…. • Ecology, species, fauna, … • Land use, demographics,… • Model, simulation data • Coupling among your systems: you can hang together or hang separately • Strong spatial-temporal component • Maps • 3D • Time – long baseline analysis • Your unique vocabularies, instruments, and datasets.

  4. Recommendation #1 • Spend the next year trying to answer the question “what’s unique and what’s similar.” • Build the requirements • Find commonalities among the observatories so that you can pool your resources. • Link to other observatories so that you can benefit from their work

  5. Recommendation #2At a Minimum, You Must A LIMS • Capture the bits (level 0 data) • Curate the bits (document how they were collected document what they mean) • Preserve the bits (for >30 years) • Provide access to the bits. • You aim to do much more but… don’t mess this up! The “O” and “S” wordsControlled Vocabulary Replicated File Systems& DataBases Portal & Web Service

  6. What You Get For Free (in 5 years) • 10x from Moore’s law • Naming • Authentication services, authorization styles. • Byte Movers & High-speed Internet • Working and interoperable web services. • Byte Storage & Generic database systems • Simple workflow systems • Some vocabulary tools (some “O” and “S” stuff) • Generic data mining tools • Generic visualization tools • Small-scale LIMS

  7. What Can Cyber Infrastructure(and the IT ecosystem) Do for You? • Can do: • Generic Concepts • Generic Tools • Can’t do: • Science • Define your vocabulary (the “O” and “S” words) • Your Services • Integration of your stuff (building your portals)

  8. Advice • Leverage commonality among observatories. • Encourage curation tools to document data capture, data meaning to track data lineage • Fund Curation & Preservation as part of projects Not an un-funded mandate • Build real prototypes in new style, it appears current efforts continue the “My Data” culture. Treat data from public infrastructure as public.Like NIH: Publish data with research. • Continue building “dashboards” and “workbenches” enables data federation & integration tools encourages tool-builders

  9. Closing the Gap Between Global Environmental Sensing Needsand Cyber Infrastructure Tools Jim Gray Jeff Burch Mark EllismanMiron Livny David Maidment Phillip Papadopolis

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