An Agile Approach to Development of

Cyberinfrastructure Governance

Lee Allison, Genevieve Pearthree, and Kim Patten

EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance Project

NSF GEO Vision report, 2009

EARTHCUBE PURPOSE & CALL TO ACTION

Holistic approach to understand more deeply the planet and its interactions

Explore knowledge from all scientific and engineering disciplines

CALL TO ACTION: “Over the next decade, the geosciences community commits to developing a framework to understand and predict responses of the Earth as a system—from the space-atmosphere boundary to the core, including the influences of humans and ecosystems.”

EARTHCUBE VISION Transform the conduct of

data-enabled geoscience-related research

Create effective community-driven cyberinfrastructure

Allow global data discovery and knowledge management

Achieve interoperability and data integration across disciplines

Dynamic Earth

Changing Climate

Earth & Life

Geosphere-Biospheric Connection

Water: Changing Perspectiv

es

EARTHCUBE IS…

Building on and leverage existing science & cyberinfrastructure

Community-driven > 2,500 participants and growing

All geosciences domains represented New round of awards made

September 2013 Test Enterprise Governance (1)

Research Coordination Networks (3)

Building Blocks (9)

Conceptual Designs (2)

EarthCube governance is a blank canvas

We are looking to you to draw the future

EARTHCUBE ENTERPRISE TEST GOVERNANCE

An agile approach to design a system that catalyzes the field and works for you

How do we bring your tools, standards, and skills into EarthCube?

2-year community engagement, testing, and demonstration process

Stakeholders (Assembly) – governance

ideas, testing

Integrate stakeholder concepts -

crowdsource

Synthesize and

recommend to NSF

Establish Test Governance

Facilitate convergence on system design, data standards

Evaluate results: basis for long

term governance

Governance timeline – Year 2

Governance timeline – Year 1

Broad Geosciences Community

(> 300,000 people)Assembly,

including NSF Awards (150 - 200 people)

Governance Project Team

(30 people)

EARTHCUBE TEST GOVERNANCE: TARGET COMMUNITY

Figure 1: EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance Organization Chart Phase 1 – Planning

EARTHCUBE TEST GOVERNANCE - A VIRTUAL TEAM

“Executive Branch”

“Legislative Body”

Test Governance

Project Secretariat

Assembly&

Assembly Advisory Council

An unbiased, objective

process to get your input and propose a solution

Industry & FOSS:

Instrumentation, Software,

and Technology Developers

Data Facilities& Users

Professional Societies

IT/CS/ Information Scientists

End-User Communities &

Workshop Participants

EarthCube Portfolio

Assembly

AdvisoryCouncil

(10-12 members)

Research Science Communities

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT (YEAR 1): EARTHCUBE ASSEMBLY

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT (YEAR 1): CROWDSOURCING

To be decided by you in Year 1

DEMONSTRATION GOVERNANCE (YEAR 2)

Coming soon – new website

A CALL FOR YOUR INVOLVEMENT

• Upcoming community workshops: Jan – March 2014

• Crowdsourcing:

• Virtual table-top gaming exercises

• Feedback on governance models

• Facebook

• Twitter

• www.earthcube.org

• Look for us at AGU, AMS, Ocean Sciences