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Tamara Shapiro Ledley Senior Scientist, TERC Chair, Standing Committee for Education

Federation of Earth Science Information Partners: An Organization that Promotes and Facilitates Collaboration. Tamara Shapiro Ledley Senior Scientist, TERC Chair, Standing Committee for Education. ESIP Federation. Formed in 1997 with 24 member organizations with funding from NASA

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Tamara Shapiro Ledley Senior Scientist, TERC Chair, Standing Committee for Education

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  1. Federation of Earth Science Information Partners:An Organization that Promotesand Facilitates Collaboration Tamara Shapiro Ledley Senior Scientist, TERC Chair, Standing Committee for Education NSDL All Projects Meeting

  2. ESIP Federation • Formed in 1997 with 24 member organizations with funding from NASA • Constitution and Bylaws adopted in 2000 • Grew to 45 organizations by spring 2003 • Soon to have over 80 members as a result of NASA REASoN Solicitation NSDL All Projects Meeting

  3. ESIP Federation Goal • To establish and continuously improve science-based end-to-end processes that increase the quality and value of Earth science products and services throughout their life-cycle for the benefit of the ESIP Federation’s stakeholder communities. NSDL All Projects Meeting

  4. ESIP Federation Structure • Federation Assembly • Type 1 ESIP’s – Data Archive Centers • Type 2 ESIP’s – Earth Science Centers • Type 3 ESIP’s – Application Centers • Type 4 ESIP’s – ESIP Federation Sponsors • Type 5 ESIP’s – ESIP Federation Supporters NSDL All Projects Meeting

  5. Foundation for Earth Science • 501(c) (3) private non-profit organization • Role: • Provides staff support for the Federation • Raises funding for Federation activities and Federation members • Governance and Staff • Board of Directors (6 of 8 key officers in the Federation) • Executive Director • Associate Executive Director NSDL All Projects Meeting

  6. ESIP Federation Governance Structure President Vice President Standing Committees Earth Science Products & Services Information Technology & Interoperability Community Engagement Commercial Development Education Working Groups Metrics & Evaluation e-Presence e-Journal Peer Review Process others Administrative Committees Executive Finance & Appropriations Partnership Constitution & Bylaws Clusters Hydrology Climate Studies GIS Services e-Commerce LBA Ecology others NSDL All Projects Meeting

  7. Opportunities for Collaboration • ESIP Federation Meeting twice per year • Poster sessions • Breakout group discussions (Summer 2003 Meeting domain groups) • Participation in committees • Most committees have monthly telecons which lead to other activities • Participation in Clusters and Working Groups • Funding Opportunities – to be facilitated by the Foundation for Earth Science NSDL All Projects Meeting

  8. Examples of Successes • Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET) • Museums Teaching Planet Earth (MTPE) – Earth Update • Interoperability and usability of distributed datasets THREDDS, OPeNDAP-Data Access Protocol NSDL All Projects Meeting

  9. Earth Exploration Toolbook • Idea grew out of discussions in a DLESE Data Access Working Group meeting • Discussions with DLESE Community and ESIP Federation Standing Committee for Education (SCEd) refined ideas for proposal • Request for partners during SCEd telecon • 6 ESIP’s partnered at various levels in the successful proposal NSDL All Projects Meeting

  10. Museums Teaching Planet Earth – Earth Update • Earth Update brings near real-time Earth science data and Earth science information to the public • Most content material develop by project staff • Other ESIP’s contributed material developed for other purposes to be included in the Earth Update software NSDL All Projects Meeting

  11. Interoperability and Usability of Distributed Datasets • Thematic Real Time Distributed Data System - THREDDS • Distributed Oceanographic Data System (DODS) – OPeNDAP-Data Access Protocol • Data access protocols as well as mechanisms for connecting distributed datasets and documents are facilitated by the collaboration of ESIP’s who have developed different tools to accomplish various tasks NSDL All Projects Meeting

  12. Newer Collaborations • Opportunity to collaborate on study of disruption of Kuwaiti salt marshes • Discussions in break out sessions at 2003 Summer Meeting helped identify potential partners who can contribute to this effort • Merging of data transfer systems to improve usability • Facilitated by participation in 2003 Summer Meeting NSDL All Projects Meeting

  13. ESIP Federation Contacts • David Jones – StormCenter Communications President of the ESIP Federation dave@stormcenter.com • Dick Wertz Executive Director of the Foundation for Earth Science dick.wertz@earthsciencefoundation.org • Tamara Shapiro Ledley - TERC Chair, Standing Committee for Education Tamara_Ledley@terc.edu • URL: www.esipfed.org NSDL All Projects Meeting

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