The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners Peter Fox, President (RPI), @ESIPPres February 2015 (also pfox@cs.rpi.edu) http://esipfed.org http://wiki.esipfed.org

History Formed in 1998 by NASA “Constitutional Convention” (1999-2000) National Academy report recommended the creation of a federation 24 original “Working Prototypes-ESIPs” 12 research 12 applications Later expanded to include NASA DAACs “Constitutional Convention” (1999-2000) Constitution and Bylaws Foundation for Earth Science (2001) Nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation The Federation’s secretariat SINCE THEN – it has been an interesting ride

ESIP Vision To be a leader in promoting the collection, stewardship and use of Earth science data, information and knowledge that is responsive to societal needs.

ESIP Mission (Shared Agenda) To support the networking and data dissemination needs of our members and the global community by linking the functional sectors of observation, research, application, education and ultimate use of Earth science..

ESIP Partners are affiliated with other networks: The ESIP Federation is A broad-based, distributed community of Earth science data and information technology practitioners Collaborations extend from core member to their partners. Crossing Domains, Agencies, Sectors, Data Life Cycle ESIP provides: Forum for open, science data-centric community collaboration Voluntary participation Community of Practice – practitioners share expertise & technologies Trusted authority, built by the community Infrastructure for community collaboration Collaborative workspace on web (Drupal, wiki, listservs) Communications (coordinated, ad hoc, open) Governance Formal (constitution, bylaws, strategic plan) Informal (cluster-based governance for consensus building) Some partners are networks themselves Unidata, DataOne, NEON, US-GIN, Data Conservancy, OOI, WHOI, National Phenology Network, USGS Community for Data Integration* NASA, NOAA, EPA ESIP Partners are affiliated with other networks: AGU Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) Group on Earth Observations (GEO) EarthCube Research Data Alliance (RDA) *

Multiple Science Domains ESIP Community Multiple Science Domains Data Providers Cross-Agency Users Data Archives Benefits of Engaging with Community: Enhance staff knowledge through peer knowledge exchange Take away new technologies Identify new collaborations Leverage scarce resources through reuse, repurpose Help define community best practices Application Developers Tool & System Developers Corporate Academia

Types & Governance Type I: data centers (21/24) NASA DAACs NOAA (NGDC, NODC, NCDC) Type II: researchers and tool developers (46/74) Academia Government labs Type III: application developers (28/62) Commercial Nonprofit Educational Type IV: strategic partners (2/2) NASA NOAA ESIP Assembly 1 partner, 1 vote Annual Business Meeting at ESIP Winter Meeting Leadership elected from Assembly representatives

ESIP Groups http://esipfed.org/collaboration-areas Standing Committees Data Stewardship Education Information Technology and Interoperability Products and Services Administrative Committees Constitution and Bylaws Finance and Appropriations Partnership Working groups Air Quality Climate Education Energy & Climate Visioneers Clusters Cloud Computing Decisions Discovery Documentation Drupal Earth Science Collaboratory Geospatial Open Source Semantic Web Visualization http://esipfed.org/collaboration-areas

Two Organizations: ESIP Federation & Foundation for Earth Science separated… ESIP Federation as a community remains unchanged. Foundation for Earth Science provides management, operational and logistical services to the ESIP Federation, unchanged. ESIP Federation Foundation for Earth Science Service Agreement

FES Coordination for ESIP ESIP supports connections at the data and systems levels by providing a neutral venue to build relationships at the human and organization level. Fdn staff has birds eye view to link communities and organizations to each other…

ESIP Transforms Earth Science ESIP provides community coordination to support interoperability at the data, systems, human and organizational levels. Outcomes and Outputs: ESIP Meetings Optimize Collaboration Open Forum for Community- Driven Collaborations Professional Development for Earth Science Data Management Innovation Hub for Experimental Development All this to say – Together, ESIP enables interoperabilty by aligning distributed groups and connecting at the humanware/humans/organization level to exchange best practices and failures in order to Agility Collaborative Collegial Community-driven Innovative Neutral Open Participatory Voluntary *

ESIP is not a ‘standards body’ Before we go further – while ESIP enables interoperability it is not a standards body. ESIP is connected to standards body through members that participate in both organizations, but ESIP doesn’t build operational infrastructure or create standards.

Strategic Plan 2014 2015 Get Involved Revisited 2009 strategic plan and goals, documented accomplishmentshttp://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/2009- 2013_Strategic_Accomplishments Revised strategic goals based on community inputs Drafted action and performance oriented roadmaphttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16f8heiZX3KoLCPfxMKTbROiG- es6y2I7m9zkuXP-964/edit#gid=0 2015 Finalize strategic roadmap Get involved - Your inputs are important, and very much welcome Work with Committee and Collaboration Area leaders to align work plans with roadmap (mapping of goals and tasks) Create wiki page to document background, status, lessons learned, and to manage execution of the plan Get Involved Contact Emily Law, Emily.Law@jpl.nasa.gov

What ESIP has done – one e.g.

Air quality: Many Observations, Many Applications The GEO AQ CoP aims to connect and enable air quality data providers and users for effective air quality science and management Infrastructure for .. Eos build by 2015 …

Sharing is facilitated by the GEOSS Common Infrastructure AR-09-01b: GEO Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) Testing and Using the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) Catalog of AQ Data though the GEOSS Clearinghouse Time Space A tangible outcome of the CoP particption was the Data Search Facets Dataset Parameter Instr. Platform Sharing is facilitated by the GEOSS Common Infrastructure

GEO AQ-CoP Main interaction through the open, participatory website: CoP People Member Projects DataSpaces

GEO AQ CoP Poster What is the GEO AQ CoP? CoP Activities for GEOSS Self- organized group working together to foster application of Eos to AQ Rather than competing, it connects and supports the activities of other data integration communities and initiatives CoP Activities for GEOSS AIP 3, AQ Community Catalog WCS Server Software, Co-developed, Shared CoP Activities for Users Catalog and help access to AQ- relevant data and tools Foster collaborative projects and global-regional integration

Things ESIP Does ~ Now Community-generated Best Practices (e.g. Citation) Testbed (e.g. Identifiers, Ontology) Community Conventions (e.g. Discovery) Professional Development Technical Workshops Non-technical Workshops (e.g. Evaluation, Communication) Data Management Short Course/Workshops Outreach Education (e.g. annual teacher workshop on climate change) Professional Societies (e.g. AGU, GSA) International Efforts (e.g. GEO, ISRSE) Provide Venue for Collaboration and Connections Both virtual and in-person Support with suite of collaboration tools Provide mini-grants to make stuff happen Testbed activities: Digital Identifiers Evaluation Deploy a Testbed Portal Esri Geoportal Server: Discovery Services and Clients: Interoperability Testing, Advertisement, and Assessment of Data to Service Broker A Classification and Annotation Scheme for Data and Service Quality Drupal Metadata Editing Tool Suite Data Stewardship: Metadata and Identifier Mapping ESIP Ontologies in the Cloud: Semantic Web Focus ESIP DOES not build infrastructure – it enables other to leverage the work across the community to build better infrastructure

Data “Stewardship” Committee 2014 (Chair: Ruth Duerr) First results from ESIP’s participation in the Data Citation Implementers Group available for review Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e697v2 http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.697v2 2015 http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Citations/editor_r eviewer_guidelines Data Stewardship Maturity Matrix Defining data publication (see session) Continued PCCS work, including Eos and D-Lib articles Dynamic data citation workshop Justin Goldstein (USGCRP) – new chair Get involved Mailing list:http://rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-preserve Telecons http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship

Citation, IDs – years ahead… Originated in the Stewardship Cluster (now Preservation and Stewardship Committee) From the community - dates back to late 2010. Guideline in late 2011, and adopted by the ESIP Assembly early in 2012 http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Citations/provi der_guidelines ESIP Resolution – related to joint declaration on DC principles: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Endorsing_the_Joint_Declaration_of_Data_Cit ation_Principles And identifiers: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Identifiers/Use Cases Duerr et al, 2011, On the utility of identification schemes for digital earth science data: an assessment and recommendations, Earth Science Informatics: 10.1007/s12145-011-0083-6

Resolution The ESIP General Assembly, Acknowledging the importance of accessible and reliable data to the processes of sound, reproducible scholarship and the role that data citation plays in ensuring this, Noting that the global research community as a whole has not yet accepted that data should be considered legitimate, citable products of research, and Reaffirming our commitment to the ESIP Data Citation Guidelines for Data Providers and Archives for Earth science data which not only acknowledges data in this role; but also provides detailed instructions for citing Earth science data, Recognizing that ESIP endorsement of the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles could increase support for data citation within the global community, Endorses the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles which, while a very high level statement about data citation, is entirely consistent with the ESIP Data Citation Guidelines for Data Providers and Archives.

NEWS! Potential inclusion in the Mozilla Science Lab Data Carpentry Curriculum

Data Management Short Course The Short Course was funded by NOAA and developed by community over 18 months All content is modular material in ppt, web and video formats Workshops have been given at AGU, AMS, IPY and material has been integrated into some I-School curriculum

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

IT & Interoperability Committee 2014 (Chair: Matt Austin) IPython and Wakari for Earth Science Richard Signell, USGS Mesonets, CubeSats, and Drones, Oh My! Emerging EarthScience Technologies in Disaster Management, John Evans from GlobalScience Technologies, INC. Experiences with Structured Data for the Discovery and Publishing of Ocean Drilling Data, Doug Fils Consortium for Ocean Leadership Data Management Maturity Model, Harry Furukawa, AGU Keeping Up with Citizen Science and the Next Wave of Big Data Annette Schloss, UNH Access and use of federal Earth science data, Ethan McMahon EPA Presentation on Evaluating the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation Project, and ToolMatch Service Testbed Project, Christine White, ESRI 2015 Focused on collaboration of interesting topics relevant to data interoperability for the Earth Sciences Ethan Davis (UCAR) new chair Get Involved Wiki: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interoperability_and_Technology Monthly telecons – 1st Thursday 3:00 Eastern Time

Products & Services Committee 2014 (Chair: Christine White) Testbed - http://testbed.esipfed.org Website rebranded (thanks Erin!) Groups documenting their projects on the site 2 projects coming to close, 4 newly funded 6 FUNding Friday awards 2015 RFP for Testbed projects coming out in April, October Project hosting opportunities Strengthen connections between completed projects and ESIP member research/work Happy Hour FUNding Friday was a success, plan to repeat Get involved Monthly Telecon - 3rd Tuesday at 2pm ET http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Products_and_Services

ESIP Testbed Next CFP: April 2015 http://testbed.esipfed.org/ The ESIP Testbed is an environment where technology, standards, services, protocols, and best practices can be explored and evaluated. The Testbed serves as a forum for innovative collaborations across all sectors of the ESIP Federation to improve availability and access to our member products and services for mutual benefit. Comments about each current Testbed activity can be shared within this environment. Next CFP: April 2015 http://testbed.esipfed.org/

Funded Projects Testbed, April RFP Testbed, October RFP FUNding Friday Evaluating the ESIP Ontologies for Mapping and Reconciliation ToolMatch Service Testbed Project Proposal Testbed, October RFP Disaster Life Cycle: Establishing a Collaborative Common Operating Picture ToolMatch Service Project to Expand Community Engagement An entity linking service for documents and datasets in Earth and environmental sciences Connect, Share and Discover ESIP Research and Expertise using VIVO FUNding Friday Working Group Syndicated Content Tool Rich Semantic Annotation for Science Media Repositories Leveraging the Power of Google Earth Engine to Derive High Quality Water Reference Data for Flood Disaster Decision Support Enhancing and Educating with the WxSat Mobile App HDFCRAFT – Making Earth Data Fun! ToolMatch Extension

Agriculture and Climate Cluster 2014 (Chairs: Bill Teng, Nancy Hoebelheinrich) Cluster session at Summer meeting; developed Cluster Wiki page. Explored collaborations with USDA Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network and Regional Climate Hub. Began compilation of NASA and other satellite data for LTAR and Climate Hubs (http://bit.ly/1CSEDpp) Contributed ideas & contacts for Plenary sessions & two breakout sessions on topic of Food Resiliency for Winter 2015 mtg 2015 With LTAR and Climate Hubs, collaboratively develop use cases for satellite and ground data Develop Survey for ESIP membership and outside collaborators to ascertain pressing issues to which Ag & Climate Cluster can contribute analyses & problem solving Expand Cluster membership & develop collaborations with other ESIP or Earth science-focused groups Get Involved http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Agriculture_and_Climate

Data Study Working Group 2014 (Chair: Anne Wilson) Released workshop report, “Planning for a Community Study of Scientific Data Infrastructure”, http://esipfed.org/node/2638 Presented work at SciDataCon 2014, Actualizing_an_Effective,_Sustainable_Science_Data_Infrastructure.pptx Provided input to NITRD RFI, NITRD_RFI_ESIPDataStudy_20141114_final.pdf Published EOS forum piece, “Realizing the Value of a National Asset: Scientific Data”, https://eos.org/opinions/realizing-value-national-asset-scientific-data 2015 Investigation of potential opportunities NRC’s “Next Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space”, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Session/4122 Possible BRDI study on fiscal sustainability of data repositories Get Involved http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Decadal_Survey

Disaster Life Cycle Cluster 2014 (Chairs: Emily Law, Karen Moe) Established cluster objective and mission Explored other related activities (e.g., CEOS/WGISS) and available data products (e.g., E-DECIDER) Co-convened oral and poster session with AGU Natural Hazards Establishing a “Collaborative Common Operating Picture” testbed 2015 Deliver and exercise “Collaborative Common Operating Picture” testbed Connect with GOESS Architecture Implementation Pilot Develop Disaster Life Cycle Information Architecture Get Involved Attend our Winter Meeting session and/or contact Karen or Emily Join our monthly teleconhttp://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Disasters

Documentation Cluster 2014 (Chairs: Ed Armstrong, Ted Habermann ) Attribute Convention for Data Discovery Version 1.3 Approved in December 2014 (http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ACDD) Documenting the Big Earth Data Initiative (BEDI) - http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Category:Documentation_Connections 2015 Encoding metadata groups/attributes in HDF and netCDF Get involved Wiki: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Category:Documentation_Cluster Monthly telecons – 3rd Thursday 2:00 Eastern Time The ACDD is an ESIP community convention for data discovery designed with netCDF3 and netCDF4 Classic in mind. Cluster vote 11 to 1 for. Metadata improvement project sponsored by NASA ESDIS New ensemble approach to metadata recommendations, dialects, and guidance. Workspace on the ESIP wiki: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Category:Documentation_Connections New version on ESIP wiki http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ACDD

ACDD – 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

Drupal Working Group 2014 (Chairs: Adam Shepherd, David Bassendine) 6 webinars from Drupal experts (YouTube: http://goo.gl/B0t57T) 2 ESIPers supported to attend Drupalcon Austin 2014 Growing ScienceOnDrupal community (http://goo.gl/w4KBJY) Saw Drupal recognized as Top-10 Open Source project by opensource.com (http://goo.gl/1MqP7B) 2015 Supporting ESIPers to attend DrupalCon & Drupal Camps More expert webinars & virtual office hours (Drupal help) 1st inaugural ScienceOnDrupal Code Sprint - Thursday, Jan. 8th 10:30am, Dupont room Get Involved https://groups.drupal.org/science-on-drupal See Adam Shepherd or David Bassendine

Energy & Climate WG 2014 (Chairs: Richard Eckman, Ana Privette) 2015 Re-established support for GEO energy work plan tasks, bringing together multiple Federal agency data providers at the ESIP Summer Meeting to discuss EO energy application successes and challenges. 2015 Data provenance, access, transparency issues for energy apps (Breakout session at this meeting) Stakeholder engagement and observation gap identification (upcoming NCSE meeting in late Jan.) Support 2nd USGEO Earth Observation Assessment energy SBA Get Involved Attend our Winter Meeting session and/or contact Ana or Richard http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Energy_and_Climate

Semantic Web Cluster 2014 (Chair: Tom Narock) 2015 Get Involved ToolMatch effort to link data and tools in discussion with national agencies to create production systems outside of ESIP - http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ToolMatch Earth science ontology portal now available and serving as community hub - http://semanticportal.esipfed.org/ 2015 Focus on ontology governance efforts and reuse Increase semantic infrastructure available to community Semantic Technology Expo Get Involved Contact Tom Narock, tnarock@marymount.edu Telecons: 4th Tuesday at 4pm http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Semantic_Web_Telecons

ESIP Partnerships CDF – Council on Data Facilities ESIP can’t work in a vacuum. ESIP works with a wide variety of partners to further interoperability across disciplines. CDF – Council on Data Facilities RDA – Research Data Alliance U-Name-It… CODATA, WDS, CDI, ESDIS, EDMC, USGEO …

Defining Collective Impact Initiatives Definition Characteristics The commitment of cross- sector actors to come together around a shared agenda and change their behavior in order to solve a complex problem Social problems & solutions arise from multiple interacting factors Organizations actively coordinate actions and share lessons learned Backbone organizations necessary to support the coordination collective impact, the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to change their behavior around a shared agenda in order to solve a complex problem Collaboration is not new, But collective impact initiatives are distinctly different. Unlike most collaborations, collective impact initiatives involve a backbone infrastructure, a dedicated staff, and facilitation that leads to a common agenda, shared measurement, continuous communication, and mutually reinforcing activities among all participants. Funders understand that social problems – and their solutions – arise from multiple interacting factors Cross-sector alignment with government, nonprofit, philanthropic and corporate sectors as partners Organizations actively coordinating their actions and sharing lessons learned All working toward the same goal and measuring the same things http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/collective_impact

ESIP as a Backbone Organization Definition Functions A Backbone Organization maintains overall strategic coherence, coordinates day-to-day operations, and manages the implementation of work. Community Engagement Communication & Outreach Evaluation Meeting Planning Project Management/Facilitation Fundraising Other Responsibilities http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/collective_impact

ESIP Core Values = Shared Agenda Agility Collaborative Collegial Community-driven Innovative Neutral (Convening) Organization Open Participatory Voluntary

ESIP as a community is on the bleeding edge New technology like Docker, Schema.org are being assessed and shared all the time Drone cluster started at 2015 Winter Meeting http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Drone_Cluster Participating in White House Big Earth Data Initiative (BEDI) with Federal Partners

How do governance models support (or discourage) community engagement? Make it easy easy easy to participate. Low barrier to entry Allow people to align their ‘day job’ to the work – shared agenda. Really be a virtual organization, and communicate, communicate, … you get the idea. And there is a whole other talk on that… Use cases (in short)

Moving into the Social Era “We need to use business models that will allow connected humans with shared interests and goals to work together [across organizations] and to produce returns” Nilofer Merchant, 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era She goes on to say that connected people with shared interests and goals can create “virtual circles to produce returns for any company that serves their needs. ESIP has been doing this for 15 years.

ESIP Transforms Earth Science ESIP provides community coordination to support interoperability at the data, systems, human and organizational levels. Conclusions: Socio-cultural forces key to success Light touch oversight to allow for community- drivers to flourish Make collaboration work for your “day job” through shared agendas Standards are inherently unsexy, but they are the key to doing so many things together. Standards at this point are a culturual issue and need collaboration. This meeting is important to begin the dialogue. Communities like ESIP thrive with a light touch and a low barrier to entry. *

President & Vice President ESIP Type Reps Peter Fox Emily Law Type I Dani Kinkade Type II Steve Richard Type III Ted Habermann Administrative Committee Chairs Bill Teng Ken Keiser Tyler Stevens ESIP works cross agencies, cross sectors, and cross science domains. ESIP Leadership 2015 Standing Committee Chairs Ethan Davis Christine White Justin Goldstein LuAnn Dahlman

2015 ESIP Summer Meeting Theme: Data-Driven Community Resilience Save the date! July 14-17, 2015 Asilomar – Pacific Grove, CA (71 miles south of San Jose, 120 miles south of San Francisco) RFID Networking Experiment (Opt-in, of course!) Interested in more

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Questions? Erin Robinson, erinrobinson@esipfed.org (Executive Director) Peter Fox, president@esipfed.org