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