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BELMONT FORUM E-INFRASTRUCTURE & DATA MANAGEMENTUS Delegation Introduction Call
March 10, 2014
Lee Allison, Steering Committee Co-Chair and US Delegation Lead
Genevieve Pearthree, US Secretariat Team Lead
AGENDA
1. Introductions
2. Belmont Forum: background & drivers
3. Infrastructure & Data Management CRA (Cooperative Research Agreement)
4. Timeline
5. Work Packages
6. Knowledge Hub
7. Questions and Discussion
US DELEGATION Allison, Lee: Arizona Geological
Survey
Arrigo, Jennifer: Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.
Cavalier, Darlene: SciStarter
Chandler, Cynthia: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Chen, Robert: Columbia University – Center for International Earth Science Information Network
Contreras, Jorge: American University – College of Law
Entwisle, Barbara: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Department of Sociology
Foster, Ian: University of Chicago – Department of Computer Sciences
Hedstrom, Margaret: University of Michigan – School of Information Sciences
Lehnert, Kerstin: Columbia University - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Michener, William: University of New Mexico - DataONE
Parsons, Mark: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Research Data Alliance
Reichman, Jerome: Duke University – School of Law
Rose, Kevin: * University of Wisconsin
Wee, Brian: National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc.
Wilbanks, John: Sage Bionetworks
Zaslavsky, Ilya: San Diego Supercomputer Center
*This person is not funded by the NSF to participate in this effort.
STEERING COMMITTEE Stefano Nativi, Italy - Italian
Natural Resource Council
Dale Peters, South Africa - University of Cape Town
Andrew Treloar, Australia – Australian National Data Service
Jean-Pierre Vilotte, France – Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Martin Visbeck, GEOMAR
Christoph Waldmann, CoopEUS – University of Bremen
*Robert Samors, GEO/GEOSS
Lee Allison, Co-Chair (US – Arizona Geological Survey)
Robert Gurney, Co-Chair (UK – University of Reading)
Roberto Marcondes Cesar, Brazil - University of São Paulo
Roberto Cossu, GEO/GEOSS - European Space Agency
Birgit Gemeinholzer, Germany - University of Giessen
Toshio Koike, Japan - University of Tokyo
Martin Visbeck, GEOMAR
Mustapha Mokrane, ICSU
*GEO/GEOSS is not supporting a National Assembly Delegation.
US-UK SECRETARIATSTAFF SUPPORT
US: Arizona Geological Survey Lee Allison Genevieve Pearthree Anna Katz Rachael Black Kate Kretschmann Kim Patten
UK: University of Reading Robert Gurney (Lead) Kathie Bowden Kim Oakley Barbara Percy
AGENDA
1. Introductions
2. Belmont Forum: background & drivers
3. Infrastructure & Data Management CRA (Cooperative Research Agreement)
4. Timeline
5. Work Packages
6. Knowledge Hub
7. Questions and Discussion
WHAT IS THE BELMONT FORUM?
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Established to foster global environmental change research;Initiated June 2009 by NSF & NERC, building on IGFA
World’s leading funders of global environmental change research and international science councils
► Australia► (Austria)► Brazil► Canada► China► France► European
Commission► Germany► Japan
CURRENT MEMBERSHIP (Italy)
India
(Norway)
South Africa
UK
USA
Int’l Council for Science
Int’l Social Science Council
Belmont Forum Member Countries
BELMONT FORUM VISION Provides a basis for research funders to broker new
partnerships with international stakeholders from the science community, operational service providers and users, to align and mobilise our collective resources and expertise toward a global environmental research mission for sustainability
Seeks to add value to strategies that are currently evolving within the environmental change research and operational service provider communities.
THE BELMONT CHALLENGE
To deliver knowledge needed for action to avoid and adapt to detrimental environmental change including extreme hazardous events, requiring:
Assessments of risks, impacts and vulnerabilities, through regional and decadal-scale analysis and prediction
Information on the state of the environment, through advanced observing systems
Interaction of natural and social sciences
Enhanced environmental information service providers to users
Effective international coordination mechanisms
INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND
Interdisciplinary: Natural & Social sciences
Clear links to research users
Policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities, industry
Address the Belmont Challenge
Societally relevant global environmental change challenges
Support for capacity building
Minimum of 3 Belmont Forum countries
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• Freshwater Security (USA)
• Coastal Vulnerability (UK)
• e-Infrastructures & Data Management
(USA & UK)
• Food security and land use change (Brazil, France & UK)
• Arctic Science (Canada)
• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (France, Germany)
• Climate Services (France, India)
International Opportunities Fund Research Themes
21 Feb 2013
QUESTIONS?
AGENDA
1. Introductions
2. Belmont Forum: background & drivers
3. Infrastructure & Data Management CRA (Cooperative Research Agreement)
4. Timeline
5. Work Packages
6. Knowledge Hub
7. Questions and Discussion
Towards a global e-infrastructure
and data management plan
E-INFRASTRUCTURES & DATA MANAGEMENT COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AGREEMENT
“….the need to address global environmental challenges requires a more coordinated approach to the planning, implementation, and management of data, analytics and e-infrastructures” through international collaboration.
Belmont Forum, New Delhi, February 2013
MEETING THE BELMONT CHALLENGEDeveloping capable e-infrastructures: Linking sensors and data repositories to
understand environmental vulnerabilities and dynamics
Making accessible data & information systems, advanced data products, visualization tools for non-specialists, stakeholders, and decision makers
Improving coordination between existing observational and data/information systems and between academic and operational systems
THE NEED
Need for heterogeneous data to be: Integrated Made interoperable Explored and re-purposed by
researchers in disparate fields Available for a myriad of uses across
institutional, disciplinary, spatial and temporal boundaries
TRENDING ISSUES
• Competition• Incentives
Data Hoard
ing
• Security• Ownership
Trust
• Quality• Certification• Terminology
Data Integrity
& Standards
•Technical•Cultural•Behavioural
Training
•Needs analysis•Use cases
User Engagement
•Tools•Models•Access
Reuse
ULTIMATE GOALS
Making environmental data/information more visible and accessible to a wide range of potential users
Tools to facilitate the integrated analysis of data/information from both natural and social sciences, visualization of results
Development of new knowledge from public and private sector data and information assets
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)
Brazil: Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
European Commission (EC)
Germany: 1) Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BBMF); 2) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
France: National Research Agency (ANR)
International Council for Science (ICSU)
Italy: Natural Research Council
Japan: Science and Technology Agency (JST)
South Africa: National Research Foundation (NRF)
United Kingdom: Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC)
United States of America: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Belmont Forum e-Infrastructure and Data Management Knowledge Hub
• 18-month long process
• International Steering Committee
• 1 member per country/organization• Co-Chair – Robert Gurney, University of Reading
• Co-Chair – Lee Allison, Arizona Geological Survey
• Assembly
• ~ 10 members per country ~ 120 people
• Secretariat – jointly funded by US (NSF) and UK (NERC)
• Knowledge Hub Web platform
RDA vision - An open, seamless, self-regulatory global digital data infrastructure that is the foundation for discovery and progress.
Cooperation between the US and the EU in the field of environmental research infrastructures
Resources
And many more…..
AGENDA
1. Introductions
2. Belmont Forum: background & drivers
3. Infrastructure & Data Management CRA (Cooperative Research Agreement)
4. Timeline
5. Work Packages
6. Knowledge Hub
7. Questions and Discussion
TIMELINE & GOALS
Multi-step, multi-funding cycle program to use feedback & knowledge from early phases to better address community needs.
Phase One: Building Communities and Developing a Community Strategy and Implementation Plan: 18-month “Knowledge Hub” programme over 2013 – 2014
Phase Two: Delivering the future of data and e-infrastructures– potential call in 2015 or later
July 2013 – November 2014: Program of international community building and strategy development activities, including mapping exercises, workshops, exchanges, summer-schools (Phase I).
October 2013: First Steering Committee In-Person Meeting (Windsor, UK)
November 2013 – January 2014: National Delegations are selected; Work Packages are refined
February –November 2014: Work Packages scoping activities
April 2014: Second Steering Committee Meeting (Vienna, Austria)
October – December 2014: Steering Committee and Secretariat compile material from WPs for Draft Community Strategy and Implementation Plan
December 2014: Draft Community Strategy and Implementation Plan produced, with recommendations for Phase Two Belmont Forum Call to develop ‘Exemplars’
Early 2015:Final Community Strategy and Implementation Plan produced
Specific deliverables will vary for each WP within the overall timeline.
QUESTIONS?
AGENDA
1. Introductions
2. Belmont Forum: background & drivers
3. Infrastructure & Data Management CRA (Cooperative Research Agreement)
4. Timeline
5. Work Packages
6. Knowledge Hub
7. Questions and Discussion
WP1: Standards
WP2: Improved Data/Computation Interface
WP3: Harmonisation of global data infrastructure
WP4: Data Sharing
WP5: Open Data
WP6: Capacity Building
WORK PACKAGE THEMES
WORK PACKAGE METHODOLOGY
1. Establish current Best Practice Use Cases as advisory exemplars for on-going study.
2. identify Barriers to integration and collaboration3. Identify Gaps in current knowledge and activities 4. Develop Guidelines and Recommendations in
areas where the Belmont Forum could make a significant contribution through its involvement and intervention.
WP 1 – STANDARDS FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY OF RESEARCH
To enable data integration of heterogeneous multidisciplinary datasets including social sciences and humanities, enabling manipulation and visualisation, reuse of data and models and ensuring credibility.
Mustapha Mokrane, ICSU Roberto Cossu, EC
WP2 – IMPROVED INTERFACES BETWEEN COMPUTATIONAL AND DATA INFRASTRUCTURES
Identification of the interfaces and the existing gaps in synergy between data and computing infrastructures – from a user perspective
Jean Pierre Vilotte, France Toshio Koike, Japan
WP3 – HARMONISATION OF GLOBAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURES FOR SHARING OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA
Christoph Waldmann, Germany
Foster interaction of data infrastructures across domains, identifying synergies with FutureEarth, RDA and GEO/GEOSS
WP 4 – DATA SHARING
Identify the values and incentives that encourage the deposit and sharing of data;
User perceptions of trust in data curation practice, infrastructure management, and organizational continuity;
Legal issues that affect the protection of data privacy, the IP rights of data providers, and liability of infrastructure management.
Dale Peters, South Africa
WP 5- OPEN DATA
Birgit Gemeinholzer, Germany Andrew Treloar, Australia
Develop strategy to promote open data across groups with an interest in environmental data - at various stages of technical maturity
Enable research communities to draw on work done by civil society/crowdsourcing, and enable civil society to analyse results generated by research community.
WP 6 – CAPACITY BUILDING (CROSS-CUTTING ACTIVITY)
Support the development of a new generation of data scientists and data curators
Investigation into resource gaps, including Data Infrastructure, Legal and Security Issues, related to capacity building
Cross-disciplinary education and training and across work package – issues to identified as work progresses
Formulate holistic recommendations for education and training.
Lee Allison, USA Robert Gurney, UK
AGENDA
1. Introductions
2. Belmont Forum: background & drivers
3. Infrastructure & Data Management CRA (Cooperative Research Agreement)
4. Timeline
5. Work Packages
6. Knowledge Hub
7. Questions and Discussion
Knowledge Hub
www.bfe-inf.org
Knowledge Hub Web Assets
1. The online community hub for digital, dynamic content that is frequently updated
2. A space that provides communications among project participants (content creators and users)
3. An open space – both in terms of transparency as well as inclusiveness to project participants
4. Searchable – a crucial component to help people easily find content within the platform
KNOWLEDGE HUB FUNCTIONALITY
Shared Group Workspaces with: Group-level calendars
Events
Assigned tasks
Discussion Forums
Document upload and editing (basic file extensions—DOC, PPT, XLS, PDF, JPG, FLV, etc.)
Links to editable Google Docs that the group is currently working on
Photos
US DELEGATION WORKSPACE
www.bfe-inf.org/united-states
AGENDA
1. Belmont Forum
2. E-Infrastructure & Data Management CRA
3. Timeline
4. Work Packages
5. Knowledge Hub
6. Participants
7. Questions and Discussion
QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION
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