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EarthCube EGu 2014 Presentation: Seeking Consensus on Governance
1. SEEKING CONSENSUS FOR
CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
GOVERNANCE IN THE USA
M. Lee Allison, Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson USA
Eva Zanzerkia, National Science Foundation, Arlington, USA
EGU General Assembly, April 30, 2014
2. WHY EARTHCUBE?
EarthCube will democratize access to data
EarthCube will increase research time by reducing
time needed to find, access, and analyze data
EarthCube will enable more interdisciplinary research
and the pursuit of new questions
EarthCube will accelerate the pace of discovery
EarthCube will give all scientists the same chance of
making major contributions regardless of institution size
or institutional endowment
7. EARTHCUBE TEST ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE PROJECT
An agile approach to
design a system that
catalyzes the field and
works for the
community.
How do we link your
tools, standards, and
skills to create
EarthCube?
8. Stakeholders
(Assembly) –
governance
ideas, testing
Integrate
stakeholder
concepts -
crowdsource
Synthesize
and
recommend
to NSF
Establish
Organizational
Demo
Facilitate
convergence
on system
design, data
standards
Evaluate
results: basis for
long term
organization
Governance timeline – Year 2
Organizational timeline – Year 1
Demo phase
Governance
charter
NSF solicitation?
10. Participants: “Champions”
from the Assembly
Workshops
Purpose: Craft the
EarthCube Demonstration
Charter
Assembly Advisory Council Synthesis
11. Crowdsourcing
Social media
Website
Exhibit booths
Professional
societies
Strategic Pathway Exercises
Testing during
workshops
Online exercises
Assembly Workshops
7 stakeholder
communities in 4
venues
Secretariat
synthesis &
analysis
Evaluators
analysis
Assembly
Advisory
Council
Advisory
Council
First
Review
Crowdsourced
response
Advisory
Committee
Second Review
All-
Hands
meeting
Charter Elements
from Stakeholder
Communities
Governance
Charter
V 1.0 Released
Governance
Charter
Presented to
All-Hands
Community
Governance
Charter
Submitted
to NSF
Jan-March 2014 April-June 2014 July-Sept 2014
A specific goal of these workshops was to gather requirements for EarthCube to be allow scientists to do the science they wanted to do. Each domain end-user workshop developed several science grand challenges or questions that are critical to better understanding our complex Earth system - challenges they envision can be better explored and understood with the help of the collaborative environment EarthCube is seeking to create. This is a wordle that was comprised of all Science Challenges developed in the two dozen workshops. So here you can see that challenges for the geosciences community surround understanding processes, climate change, scales, earth systems, etc. Articulating Cyberinfrastructure Needs of the Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics CommunityHow do different physical, chemical, and biological processes come together to create more complex emergent properties in ocean ecosystems? What are the feedback loops among these processes and how do they give rise to biological, chemical, and genetic diversity in the oceans?
Finally on this slide we get to the Test Governance Award, which is the project I work on and have the most knowledge about regarding current efforts.
As well as Science Challenges, each workshop developed a list of Technical Challenges. Participants asked to identify key technological challenges they face in data acquisition, comparison, integration, curation, etc. in pursuing key science questions, as well as the desired tools, databases, etc. required. From this wordle, it is clear that the big challenge is DATA (and that should be no surprise to you).
This is the same word cloud as the pervious one w/ “data” removedHighlights what is really important when it comes to technical challenges instead of just lumping it all into one big “problem with data” (which is what we always hear). When we dig deeper, we see that the real challenges are with the access, visualization, and tools related to data. Something else that really stands out is the word, Community. Emphasizing that perhaps not all technical challenges, have technical solutions, but social solutions as well. And that really where EarthCube can step in. Engaging the Atmospheric Cloud/Aerosol/Composition Community 6. Supporting modeling and integrated analysis • On-line data integration and analysis services • Tools and services to manage, archive, and disseminate model outputs for facilitating modeling comparison • Sensor-model coupling for facilitating model verification and validation with observation data • Sensor web and models as services
Agile – several advisory committee & a development evaluation team – allow us to quickly change course if things aren’t working or we’re not getting the results we want.
Need feedback from broad cross-section of geoscientists on their ideas on EarthCube governance, and test how they would react to different externalities (NSF funding, support from university/employer, etc.) through game theory.