2018 EarthCube All Hands Meeting

• Deborah Khider (University of Southern California) & Daniel Garijo (University of Southern California) - LinkedEarth Use Case
• Lisa Kempler (MATLAB Community Strategist, MathWorks)

Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California)
Cindy Bruyere (NCAR)
Scott Peckham (University of Colorado)
James Done (NCAR)

The Accelerating Scientific workflowS using EarthCube Technologies (ASSET) EarthCube pilot project was funded to examine science workflows and make recommendations as to which EC technologies might be helpful in advancing the progress of science challenges within the geosciences community. Thus far, our team has worked to sketch out a workflow of one science project from the ground up, which has been very helpful in determining potential collaborations among the science team and EC technology experts.

Modeled after the very successful 2015 EarthCube Tech-Hands Meeting, we have created a session at the AHM to create a matrix of “speed dating sessions,” pairing science teams and funded project representatives for the purpose of sharing science needs and EC technologies to spark future collaborations. We will first contact interested science teams to sketch out and examine their workflows, then work with the EarthCube Science Support Office to map potential EC technologies that could be used to accelerate scientific discovery and productivity for this application. We would then match these science teams with technology teams at the AHM for up to four, 30 minute “speed dates” to work out the details of potential collaborations.

For our session to be successful, we need to be notified in advance of both science teams and technology folks who will have representatives at the AHM and would like to participate. If you would like to participate in this session, please contact  asset@earthcube.org. In order to sketch out your science workflows and do the preparatory work prior to the AHM, we would need your response by Friday, May 11th. 

Understanding Your Audience and Identifying Key Stakeholders

1. Define primary and secondary audience segments for your gateway.
2. Identify key stakeholders.
3. Define key values each segment will require and begin to prioritize segments.
4. Pinpoint the open questions that need further research.
5. Begin to see connections between audience data and strategies for outreach & impact.

About SGCI
The Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) was established to provide resources, services, experts, and ideas for creating and sustaining science gateways. Science gateways are online interfaces that give researchers, educators, and students easy access to specialized, shared resources that are specific to a science or engineering discipline. For example, they may connect to or between instruments (such as telescopes or sensors), data collections, specialized software, or high-performance computing.

While the use of gateways can improve the productivity of researchers significantly, the process of developing, operating, and sustaining a gateway can prove challenging and time consuming. SGCI services and resources aim to fill that gap.

The SGCI is organized into five service areas:

1. Incubator: Learn best practices from our consultants or Bootcamp
2. Extended Developer Support: Get direct, custom development help
3. Scientific Software Collaborative: Find gateways or software components (or promote your own)
4. Community Engagement and Exchange: Engage with and learn from the gateways community
5. Workforce Development: Build your career as a student or young professional

See full abstract here.

The realization of an EarthCube science workbench to support research use cases is primarily dependent on the interoperability of software tools and data products, within EarthCube projects and including resources from the larger Geo and CI communities.  

A Workbench Tiger Team was recently established by the Leadership Council to investigate and recommend the workbench fundamentals needed to address EarthCube’s needs, and this session is an opportunity to get broader community input.  

EarthCube interoperability objectives are crucial to ultimately integrating community resources to support science-driven needs and use cases.  Interoperable integration includes capabilities to discover resources that are compatible with science use cases, generate and assess solution workflows, and provide re-usable and interoperable technology solutions to science problems.  

This session will attempt to address some of the evolving workbench concepts being considered.  While a workbench will never be compatible with all resources, we solicit input from the community on suggestions of favorite tools and resources for which support should be considered.

Environment Mapping of the Landscape

1. Demonstrate where your gateway ts in the existing landscape.
2. Illustrate the relationships between the existing solutions.
3. Identify the key forces that drive the marketplace.
4. Express the difference between (and name) your actual direct and indirect competitors.
5. Identify several relevant “competitors” to your Gateway, and in what ways they compete.
6. Determine the key differentiators that set you apart.
7. Outline a next phase of work, to further explore your competitors and potential partners.

About SGCI
The Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) was established to provide resources, services, experts, and ideas for creating and sustaining science gateways. Science gateways are online interfaces that give researchers, educators, and students easy access to specialized, shared resources that are specific to a science or engineering discipline. For example, they may connect to or between instruments (such as telescopes or sensors), data collections, specialized software, or high-performance computing.

While the use of gateways can improve the productivity of researchers significantly, the process of developing, operating, and sustaining a gateway can prove challenging and time consuming. SGCI services and resources aim to fill that gap.

The SGCI is organized into five service areas:

1. Incubator: Learn best practices from our consultants or Bootcamp
2. Extended Developer Support: Get direct, custom development help
3. Scientific Software Collaborative: Find gateways or software components (or promote your own)
4. Community Engagement and Exchange: Engage with and learn from the gateways community
5. Workforce Development: Build your career as a student or young professional

See full abstracts here.

• Jocelyn Sessa (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University), The ePANDDA project: enhancing paleontological and neontological data discovery API
• Amy Myrbo (University of Minnesota), Amy, Flyover Country for spatial discovery and visualization of multiple domain repositories’ data in outreach, research, education, and citizen science
• Ouida Meier (Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii Manoa) , CRESCYNT Data Science for Coral Reefs: Data Integration and Team Science
• Deana Pennington (the University of Texas at El Paso), Learning and Convergence Across Disciplines
• Gelu Nita (New Jersey Institute of Technology), EarthCube RCN: Towards Integration of Heliophysics Data, Modeling, and Analysis Tools
• Kerstin Lehnert (Columbia University), Realizing the Internet of Scientific Samples