Lee Allison, Chair, EarthCube Governance Steering Committee
M. Lee Allison, Genevieve Pearthree and Kim Patten
EarthCube Governance Framework: A Proposal to the Community
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Lightning Talk, Allison: EarthCube Governance Framework: A Proposal to the Community
1. EarthCube Governance
Framework: A Proposal
to the Community
How do we organize, manage, & govern
cyberinfrastructure in the geosciences?
Lee Allison, Chair, EarthCube Governance Steering Committee
Genevieve Pearthree, Kim Patten
Arizona Geological Survey
RDAP, April 4, 2013
2. NSF & Geosciences
team up on Big Data
The World Economic Forum convened
in Switzerland in January, 2012
highlighted big data as a new economic
asset comparable to currency and gold
Rethinking Personal Data: Strengthening Trust, World
Economic Forum. May, 2012
3. A Social Endeavor
http://earthcube.ning.com/
113 white paper
>1100 members to ~80 formal
submission;185
the EarthCube Expressions of
respondents to
website Interest
capability survey
Untold number of
17
hours of pro-bono 11 Concept and
Community/Special
contributions by the Community Awards
Interest Groups
community
Significant international engagement
and building interagency engagement
5. Emerging Concept: 3 Tiers of Governance
Enterprise-level
services Locally optimized
community
community
Locally operated &
maintained community
Common
Touch Point
Service
6. Initial Governance Functions
1. Identify and Implement Vision, Mission, and Goals
2. Engage and Coordinate Across Community
3. Management: Create and Implement By-Laws and
Charter
4. Develop and Maintain Viable Reference
Architecture (system design)
DID NOT recommend specific governance model(s)
Intention is that the interim prototype governing body
will determine most effective governance model(s)
Notas del editor
Credit Peter Baumann, EarthServer.eu
Governance evolves from concept to construction to operation/implementationIt takes 40-50 years for infrastructure to reach 80-90% of the population.
dark blue line: enterprise level service managed by something outside of the individual communities (e.g, EarthCube). Dotted red line is service that is managed at an enterprise level, is logically connected, but is locally optimized within each individual community. The blue ovals continue to be operated and maintained locally. Note that each community maintains its local science autonomy; each merely allows common and logical services to be integrated into their fabric.
Governance functions based on published governance research and community input. Specific sources include: Over 75 published research on governanceEarthCube Working Group and Concept Team draft roadmapsCommunity input during Governance Steering Committee virtual webinars – more than 30 webinarsJune charrette, July 2012 EarthCube Principle Investigator workshop, EarthCube sessions at the ESIP Federation Mid-Year Meeting in Madison, WI, July 17-20. #4 refers to the governance and organizational architecture and not any specific CI