the esip federation: collaborative strategies for sustained environmental data management

Collaborative Strategies for Sustained Environmental Data Management – November 17-19, 2015

The ESIP FederationCollaborative Strategies for Sustained Environmental Data ManagementErin Robinson, Executive Director, ESIP

Collaboration Area Structure ESIP Clusters

• Agriculture & Climate• Cloud• Decisions• Disasters• Discovery• Documentation• Earth Science Data Analytics• Energy & Climate• EnviroSensing • Info Quality• Science Software• Semantic Web

Features• Formed by sending

VP email• For any reason• Ends when the last

person hangs up

FormalityLeast Most

Clusters

Least Most

Clusters

WorkingGroups

Collaboration Area StructureFeatures:

• Created byAssembly or Committee

• Task-oriented• Budget*

ESIP Working Groups• Data Study• Drupal• Climate Education• Visioneers

Formality

Least Most

Clusters Committees

Collaboration Area StructureFeatures

• Chair elected by Assembly

• Chair serves onExecutive Committee

• Budget*

Standing Committees

• Data Stewardship

• Education

• Information Technology and Interoperability

• Products and Services

Administrative Committees

• Constitution and Bylaws

• Finance and Appropriations

• PartnershipWorkingGroups

Formality

ESIP Hub

List-servs

Wiki

Meetings

Web Conference

Social Media

ESIP Commons & Testbed

Monday Updates &

Blogs

Communication

Collaborative Work

Meetings

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ESIP Backbone

Things ESIP Does

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• Enable “risky” development

• Community-generated Best Practices & Conventions (e.g. Citation)

• Professional Development

• Outreach

Air Quality Community Catalog

ESIP AQ activities for GEOSS AIP 3, AQ Community Catalog WCS Server Software, Co-

developed, Shared

Activities for Users Catalog and help access to AQ-

relevant data and tools Foster collaborative projects and

global-regional integration

AR-09-01b: GEO Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP)Testing and Using the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)

Data Search FacetsDataset Parameter Instr. Platfor

m

Space Time

Sharing is facilitated by the GEOSS Common Infrastructure

Catalogof

AQ Data though the

GEOSS Clearinghouse

Governance of Conventions

Earth Data OpenSearch Conventions ESIP Discovery cluster

brought together OGC, CWIC, CEOS to agree on conventions

API covers > 93% of query needs according to ECHO metrics

Two-step searching is the burden of the API

ESIP/CWIC/CEOS best practices are dynamic

Adoption rate is very promising

Attribute Conventions for Data Discovery The ACDD is an ESIP

community convention for data discovery designed with netCDF3 and netCDF4 Classic in mind.

Originally, created by Unidata

ESIP Documentation Cluster established governance method to approve a new version – Version 1.3

http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ACDD



Data Citation Guidelines

ESIP Data Stewardship created

ESIP Assembly endorsed in 2012 (Way ahead of it’s time)

Served as a model for NASA, NOAA, NSF, Group on Earth Observations, …

ESIP has been influential in Force11 and RDA, influencing directions based on this work

http://commons.esipfed.org/node/308

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Highest Priorities

Embrace the social era - Flexible, connected models of governance allow for innovation

Allow people to align their ‘day job’ to the work – shared agenda.

Create a low barrier to entry Sustain funding for collaborative

activities