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EarthCube RCN: Cyberinfrastructure for relieving the burden of metadata in Geosciences and Biology

This RCN will bring together members of the earth science, biology, computer science and library communities to address the gap between the necessity of metadata and the difficulty in providing metadata. Involvement of the geosciences and biosciences communities will ensure integration of data from the two disciplines. Involvement of computer scientists will guide researchers to articulate their needs in a way that can be used to build cyberinfrastructure and use existing infrastructure.…See More
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EarthCube Semantics Network RCN

We  broadly announce a response to the NSF EarthCube Research Coordination Network RFP (Amendment I). The preliminary title of the RCN  is "EarthCube Semantics Network (ESN)". It will focus on requirements gathering, education, and information exchange concerning the role of Semantics, Linked Data, and vocabularies for EarthCube. We, Peter Fox (PI), Mark Schildhauer, Tim Finin, Krzysztof Janowicz, and Pascal Hitzler seek to openly engage  specialists, senior, and junior people involved in the…See More
Feb 28
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Workshop dates finalized for Semantics/Ontology group at Holiday Inn, Arlington at Ballston

April 30, 2012 at 8:30am to May 1, 2012 at 8:30am
The face to face workshop dates for our group has been finalized. It will be held on Monday April 30th (starting at 8.30 AM; all day) and on Tuesday, May 1st (starting at 8.30 AM) till after lunch time. The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn, Ballston, Virginia.(http://www.holidayinn.com/hotels/us/en/arlington/wasfx/hoteldetail ) Details of the agenda will be posted in a few days; any suggestions…See More
Apr 26, 2012
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Andrew Maffei replied to Kim Patten's discussion Call for Focus Group Participation in the group Governance
"I just went to the Google spreadsheet and added another suggested focus group called "Framework for Vocabulary / Ontology (Semantic) Governance". The idea is to consider whether a future EarthCube governance structure might (or might…"
Apr 17, 2012
Andrew Maffei replied to Janet Fredericks's discussion Summary of EOIs listed in WebEx slide (SO-WG component) in the group Semantics and Ontologies
"Janet, Thanks for starting this doc for us. I've added a description of our EOI (1084) to your msword doc and attached it to this reply. Seems like it's about time that we start ramping up towards an eventual report from our group at the…"
Mar 28, 2012
Andrew Maffei replied to Genevieve Pearthree's discussion EarthCube Governance Concept Team and Working Group Liaisons in the group Governance
"I'm interested in being a Liaison from the Semantics and Ontologies group. Others might be as well. I've started a discussion in that group on this topic"
Mar 28, 2012
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Liaison to Governance working group needed

The Governance working group is looking for a Liaison from this Semantics and Ontologies working group. I'm interested in EarthCube governance and would like to volunteer for this role. Are others interested as well? (see http://earthcube.ning.com/group/governance/forum/topics/earthcube-governance-concept-team-and-working-group-liaisons)See More
Mar 28, 2012
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Governance

“Governance refers to the processes, structure and organizational elements that determine, within an organization or system of organizations, how power is exercised, how stakeholders have their say, how decisions are made, and how decision makers are held accountable.”  In spring 2012, NSF merged several governance-related Expressions of Interest into a single Governance Working Group, led by the Governance Steering Committee (…See More
Mar 28, 2012
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Semantics and Ontologies

The proposal seeks to evaluate the role of semantics/ontologies in both discovery and integration of heterogeneous data from all disciplines of geosciences. Semantic technologies that will facilitate achieving such goals will be evaluated. The workshop will provide an open forum for the broader community to provide solutions to these challenges.PI: Krishna Sinha, Virginia Tech, pitlab at vt.educo-PIs: Hassan Babaie, Georgia State USubscribe to the Semantics Group:…See More
Mar 7, 2012
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Andrew Maffei commented on Andrew Maffei's blog post Capability: More effectively bridge science needs and technology solutions
"Omar El-Gayar gave me this link to look at. He also likes to work on both ends of the spectrum. Sustainable Development! http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/45dt.htm#DT3"
Nov 3, 2011
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Nov 3, 2011
Andrew Maffei commented on Andrew Maffei's blog post Capability: More effectively bridge science needs and technology solutions
"Here are the comments left on our poster by other EarthCube attendees. Thank you all! Socio-ecological systems (Peter Fox) Embed technologists connected to EarthCube in Science Projects (Sky Bristol) We have created an online database of…"
Nov 3, 2011
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Oct 27, 2011
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Whitepaper - Building earth science cyberenvironments at the working collaboration level

This paper discusses the concept of Informatics Bridging Teams (IBTs). It describes work we are doing at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to develop improved methods for information scientists and geo-scientists to work and collaborate more effectively -- with an end goal of building more robust and reliable cyberinfrastructures at laboratory, organization, community, and national/global scales.The Informatics Bridging Team approach adopts the TWC Methodology and embeds information…See More
Oct 17, 2011
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Andrew Maffei replied to Barbara Ransom's discussion It's all about the metadata in the group Technology and CI Solutions
"Well said Barbara -- one of the biggest problems is culture change. This is the "elephant in the tent". Many of us know technological problems are "easy" when put up against culture change. Unless the EarthCube effort deals…"
Oct 10, 2011

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Organization?
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Which would you say is your main area of expertise?
Cyberinfrastructure architects or builders and other technologists

I am interested in how to improve the success rate of technologist - scientist partnerships in cyberenvironments. I find that the things currently important to me in this area are expressed nicely in the table of contents of the NSF Report "Cyberenvironment Project Management: Lessons Learned":

• Users and technologists need each other to succeed

• You must have a target and know how to reach it

• Leadership should be a partnership between technologists and domain specialists

• Effective project management is essential at all levels

• Communication is crucial

• Good software development practices need to be established

• Experiment-based software deployment is effective for helping users to own the software

• Cyberinfrastructure is a living entity

I think that these elements must exist in any design we put together.

 

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Movie: BCO-DMO repository data services

Cyndy Chandler was asked to attend EarthCube but had to attend another meeting instead. She asked me to show the attached movie to folks since she could not make it. Here is a link to a version of the movie about Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) varied data services with subtitles (so you can watch it with the sound turned down if you like!). Feel free to watch it in either WMV or MOV at your leisure...…

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Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:00am

Capability: More effectively bridge science needs and technology solutions

I've placed a transcription of the poster that the "barriers group" I worked with wednesday morning created to summarize our work.

We were all pretty passionate about finding better ways to bridge geo science and computer science & technology needs and were pleased to learn…

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Posted on November 3, 2011 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

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