Imagine a World….

Imagine a World….• With easy, unlimited access to scientific data

and applications from any field• Where you can easily analyze data of interest

and display them any way you want• Where you can easily model your results and

explore any ideas you have

These are goals of EarthCube – Cyberinfrastructure framework for the 21st century as built by the Geosciences

EarthCube is a Collaboration

• Among Earth, atmosphere, ocean, polar, computer, information, and social scientists

• Jointly funded by the NSF GEO Directorate and Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI)

GEOSCIENCES ARE READY

• Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is part of the research fabric of Geosciences

• Geoscientists are sophisticated CI users and creators• NSF and other agencies support substantial infrastructure

and research that will form the foundation of EarthCube• Community is connected by the science and collegial

relationships

Why EarthCube?• Nature does not recognize separate disciplines

• EarthCube will democratize access to data

• EarthCube will increase research time by reducing time needed to find, access, and analyze data

• EarthCube will enable more interdisciplinary research and the pursuit of new questions

• EarthCube will accelerate the pace of discovery

• EarthCube will give all scientists the same chance of making major contributions regardless of

institution size or institutional endowment

An alternative approach to respond to daunting science and cyberinfrastructure challenges

EarthCube is an outcome and a

process

EarthCube: next

generation CI to transform

the conduct of geosciences

Unidata

IRISIEDA

NCAR

OOI

CUASHI

The process must• Engage all stakeholders: Geosciences end-users

Geosciences and CI facilitiesCI and Computer Science specialists

• Build EarthCube iteratively, with community input and assessment

• EarthCube built on existing resources, different geosciences communities cannot be uniformly served

DataOne

The EarthCube Strategy

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A Social Endeavor

>1800 members to the EarthCube

website

113 white paper submission;185 respondents to

capability survey

~80 formal Expressions of

Interest

27 Community/Special Interest Groups; 18

Roadmaps

Untold number of hours of pro-bono

contributions by thecommunity

13 Building Blocks, RCNs, Governance, &

INSPIRE awards(currently)

Significant international engagement and

building interagency engagement

www.EarthCube.org & http://workspace.EarthCube.org/

WHAT IS EARTHCUBE?

EARTHCUBE IS…• An approach to respond

to daunting science and CI challenges

• An outcome and a process

• A knowledge management system

• An infrastructure

• An integrated framework

• An integrated system• A cyberinfrastructure• An integrated set of

services• An architectural

framework

Rubric Cube

Software Big Data People Hardware

Guiding Principles1. Serve advancement of interdisciplinary science through collaboration

among community members and with other CI initiatives 2. Rely on open, transparent processes; vet and inform decisions

through active community engagement3. Encourage environmentally sustainable processes and practices 4. Support development that draws from best practices based on

interoperability and reuse of resources 5. Strive for free and open sharing of data, information, software and

services 6. Evolve with changing technologies, practices and user needs while

remaining robust

Crowdsourcing

Social mediaWebsiteExhibit boothsProfessional societies

Strategic Pathway Exercises

Testing during workshopsOnline exercises

Assembly Workshops

7 stakeholder communities in 4 venues

Secretariat synthesis & analysis

Evaluators analysis

Assembly Advisory CouncilWorkshop

Advisory Council First Review

Crowdsourced response

Advisory Co

mmitteeSecond Review

All-

Hands m

eeting

Charter Elements

from Stakeholder

Communities

Governance Charter

V 1.0 Released

Governance Charter

Presented to All-Hands

Community

Governance Charter

Submitted to NSF

Jan-March 2014 April-June 2014 July-Sept 2014

Current ProjectsTest Enterprise Governance• EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance: An Agile Approach

M. Lee Allison, University of Arizona Research Coordination Networks (RCNs)• C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences

Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University • Building a Sediment Experimentalist Network (SEN)

Wonsuck Kim, University of Texas at Austin• EC3: Earth-Centered Communication for Cyberinfrastructure - Challenges of Field

Data Collection, Management, and IntegrationMatty Mookerjee, Sonoma State University

Conceptual Designs• Developing a Data-Oriented Human-Centric Enterprise Architecture for EarthCube

Chaowei Yang, George Mason University• Enterprise Architecture for Transformative Research and Collaboration Across the

GeosciencesIlya Zaslavsky, San Diego Supercomputer Center

INSPIRE• Enabling Transformation in the Social Sciences, Geosciences, and Cyberinfrastructure

through Stakeholder Alignment and New Institutional Theory, Methods, and AnalyticsJoel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana

Building Blocks • Deploying Web Services Across Multiple Geoscience Domains

Tim Ahern, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology• Specifying and Implementing ODSIP, A Data-Service Invocation Protocol

David Fulker, OPeNDAP• A Broker Framework for Next Generation Geoscience (BCube)

SiriJodha Khalsa, National Snow and Ice Data Center• Integrating Discrete and Continuous Data

David Maidment, University of Texas at Austin• Leveraging Semantics and Crowdsourcing in Data Sharing and Discovery

Thomas Narock, University of Maryland• A Cognitive Computer Infrastructure for Geoscience

Shanan E. Peters, University of Wisconsin at Madison• Earth System Bridge: Spanning Scientific Communities with

Interoperable Modeling FrameworksScott Peckham, University of Colorado at Boulder

• Software Stewardship for the GeosciencesYolanda Gil, University of Southern California

• Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geosciences Interoperability (CINERGI)Ilya Zaslaysky, San Diego Super Computer Center

Something Tangible

• An Opportunity for Computer Scientists & Software Developers!

• Join the EC3 RCN (Earth-Centered Communication for Cyberinfrastructure: Challenges of field data collection, management, and integration) for a field trip to Yosemite and Owens Valley – DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: March 10

• Sign up at http://workspace.earthcube.org/ec3

Some Resources

• www.EarthCube.org & http://workspace.EarthCube.org • YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/EarthCubeNSF • GitHub: https://github.com/earthcube• Social Media – Facebook & Twitter• SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/earthcube