Afternoon governance session convened by Lee Allison on Day 2 of the All Hands Meeting

1. Options for Priorities
• Develop an emergent architecture
• Identifying and promoting success stories from EarthCube (science
stories) – may be a 5-10 year process, Evaluation of the Stories
• Promulgating tangible outputs of the awards and collective activity
(funded award success)
• Guidelines for shared services and other forms of federation among
data providers
• Developing a common format and extensible e-learning curriculum
for end user training modules in all aspects of the
cyberinfrastructure
• Benchmark CI progress against meeting scientific end-user needs
• Develop a prototype demonstrating connectivity and functionality
• Test bed for EarthCube widgets
• Documenting scientific workflow
• EarthCube Data Management Plans
• Coordination and alignment among EarthCube projects

2. Additional Options
• Scope & Articulation of Vision – what is within and outside the scope of
EarthCube (reference to Leadership Council)
• Identifying collaborations, interagency and international (outside of NSF)
• Identifying and documenting use cases and empirical data to pull together what
exists already
• Academia – education and where this starts
• Including in the EC Data Management Plan – roadmap for engagement with NSF
to improve the enforcement of data management plans
• Improve data discovery (leverage existing resources)
• Governance needs to be in place and be light/flexible, scientist lead rather than
CI
• Tie BB and other design efforts together
• What are the funding mechanisms for products within EarthCube (beyond
Working Groups)
• Adoption of Standards or Recommendations for Standards (e.g. Data Fair Port?
From biomedical community)
• Find a mechanism for “long-tail science” to participate
• Engaging the EC Stakeholders (& Listen)