In an effort to update the EarthCube website and keep pace with the direction that EarthCube is moving,…

An enthusiastic thank you to Emilio and Albert for a very successful, interactive, engaging EarthCube workshop focused on inland waters geochemistry, biogeochemistry and fluvial sedimentology. You both did a great job!

As part of our response to the solicitation for RCN proposals, we are looking for interested parties to support the "EarthCube Semantics Network (ESN)" in the role of liaisons to end user groups. If you are active in one or more specific earth science fields and would like to act as liaison between the network and these groups, please let us know. Activities include the fostering of dialogue between disciplines and requirements assessments. Please state your interest by email to…

On Friday, January 18, 2013, about 40 folks attended the OGC EarthCube Summit, co-located with the OGC Technical Committee meeting earlier that week.

We had two breakouts: one on Architecture, especially to do with brokering requirements; and one about how Standards Development Orgs can relate to EarthCube.…

Registration for virtural participation still open for Jan. 21-23 workshop!

Please participate virtually in the EarthCube Critical Zone Domain Workshop, Jan. 21-23. if you are a critical zone scientist or cyber scientist interested in a future cyber-infrastructure that meets the needs of all earth surface sciences.

We have set up WebEx virtual meeting rooms for the Plenary…

A number of the members of the EarthCube Governance Steering Committee are being joined by a quickly growing coalition of other stakeholders in organizing a funding proposal to NSF in response the recently released solicitation NSF 13-529: EarthCube: Developing a Community-Driven Data and Knowledge Environment for the Geosciences.

In the spirit of openness and inclusiveness, we invite all interested parties to join us in the proposal, which is provisionally titled, "EarthCube…

Dear all,



We would like to announce the Descartes Core 2013 geospatial semantics specialist meeting that will take place 03/20-22/2013 at Santa Barbara, CA, USA. The meeting aims at taking the current series of GeoVoCamps, workshops, and specialists meetings to the next level by establishing a common core of (geo-)ontology design patterns, vocabularies, best practice guides, examples, software, and services, that aim to foster semantic interoperability between different (Linked…

The National Science Foundation' s Directorate for Geosciences and Office of Cyberinfrastructure have released EarthCube: Developing a Community-Driven Data and Knowledge Environment for the Geosciences Solicitation and Amendment I "Test Enterprise Governance and Research Coordination Networks."  Full information on the award is available by visiting the official NSF EarthCube page or viewing the…

Participate and learn more about the early EarthCube pilot developing within the NSF Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) program.  Online registration is now open for the Domain Workshop, "Engaging the Critical Zone…

At AGU on Friday this week (session IN51A), I'll present the portal tools in current use for developing and maintaining OGC standards. This is a collaboration support framework in use by several other orgs, including GSDI, buildingSmartAlliance, and others. You can download the slides here: http://www.ogcnetwork.net/system/files/ogc_portal_agu-v3.ppt

Cheers -dka

The diverse community of Earth surface scientists working within the NSF Critical Zone Observatory program represents a microcosm of the target audience for EarthCube.  The 16 CZO disciplines span the range from Big Data to Long Tail science, and have begun the process of building a community infrastructure that can serve as a pilot for the EarthCube endeavor.  Furthermore, in the last few months, $2M has been awarded from NSF…

Those interested in the shape and governance of EarthCube should read this article in Science, vol.338, 12-Oct-2012, pages 196-197, available here (subscription required):

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6104/196.full.pdf

Some excerpts and comments:

"Data on the global R&D enterprise are inconsistently structured and shared, which hinders understanding and policy....…

Thanks to the GSA Geoinformatics Division, EarthCube had a booth to collect ideas and community feedback at the Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Over 100 people (students to professionals) filled out surveys on data and science drivers.  These surveys were created and are being used as part of the domain workshops; results from GSA and the workshops will be shared. 

The booth featured a general information presentation on…

The National Academies Press just published a study to:

1. Identify existing knowledge and document lessons learned during previous

efforts to develop SDIs [Spatial Data Infrastructure] and their support of scientific endeavors;

2. Develop a vision for optimizing an SDI to organize, integrate, access, and use

scientific data; and

3. Create a roadmap to guide the USGS in accomplishing the vision within the

scope of the USGS Science…

The title (and link) for the TED talk is Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government,  about open-source tools and "cooperation without coordination". This talk really addresses some of the core complexities in EarthCube's mission to democratize knowledge. How many ways could we use github…

The Sept 11 issue of EOS has an article "Initiative to Establish Research Data Alliance Moves Forward" (see attached RDA_Initiative_EOS20120911.pdf). Excerpting from the article:

"With the amount of scientific data being gathered growing exponentially—due to the increasing number of sensor networks,…

Geographic Information Ethics and GIScience

Special Session, AAG 2013, Los Angeles, CA



http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/aag_ethics13.html



Following successful sessions at the 2009-2011 AAG meetings on ethics and GIScience, we are organizing sessions to continue and expand discussions of this important topic. Ethical engagements with the multitude of GIS applications and uses, whether surreptitious…