Infrastructure to Facilitate Collaboration in Integrated Regional Assessment Brent Yarnal Center for Integrated Regional Assessment

Overview Infrastructure for IRA Protocols Collaboratories Networks

Infrastructure for IRA Definitions of infrastructure  Foundation or basic framework of a system or organization  Resources (e.g., personnel, rules, software) required for an activity Infrastructure components for IRA  Protocols  Collaboratories  Networks

Protocols Definition of protocol  Guidelines for applying methods to problems Protocols should:  Be standardized, flexible, dynamic  Harmonize data, models, scales Example: agricultural vulnerability to drought

Collaboratories Definition of collaboratory  A Web-based environment fostering remote collaboration Collaboratories should:  Link sites  Link scientists  Provide tools Three examples of collaboratory tools

e-Delphi

e-Conferencing

Codex

Networks Definitions of network  A complex, interconnected system  An extended group with similar interests or concerns that interacts for mutual assistance or support IRA networks should:  Promote consistent, confirmable, comparable data  Advance research, assessment, & monitoring over time & space Example: the HERO project

The HERO project Goal  Establish prototype infrastructure for monitoring local human-environment interactions Proof-of-concept  Network  Protocols  Collaboratory

HERO proof-of-concept network