U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey CDI Data Management Working Group December 12, 2011 Sally Holl, USGS Texas Water Science Center

EIM 2011: Take-home Points  EIM is a forum for idea exchange about management of environmental data  Discussion topics are parallel with issues addressed by USGS Community for Data Integration  USGS data were prominently featured in some of the presentations and posters  USGS should play both leadership and participant roles in future EIM conferences by submitting abstracts and attending

EIM 2011: Overview  A forum for information managers, scientists, and informatics researchers to present and discuss advances in environmental information management, analysis, and modeling.  EIM 2011 invites original, short papers (6 pages) on environmental information management. proceedings-2011

EIM 2011: Who, When & Where  Sponsors:  National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara  Long-term Ecological Research Network (LTER), University of Wisconsin  DataONE  September 28-29, Barbara, CA  Proceedings: proceedings proceedings-2011

EIM 2011: Submission Topics  Sensor networking and deployment  Data acquisition, field-computing devices  Quality control processing  Data archival for long-term persistence  Metadata generation, storage, and management  Metadata-driven data analysis services  Data and metadata semantics, controlled vocabularies, and ontologies  Analysis and modeling frameworks  Data and metadata versioning and lineage  Visualization tools  Geospatial tools, applications, and standards  Sociology of collaboration and data sharing

EIM 2011: Data Interoperability for Synthesis Science  Session Topics:  Sensors and Workflows  Semantics and Data Management  Discovery, Visualization, and Analysis  CyberInfrastructure Systems  25 talks, 2 keynotes, a poster session, 4 BOFs, and a concluding group discussion  Plenary (group) discussion: Community Standards and Practices Development

Birds of a Feather (BOF) Topics  Internet mapping: What are the options?  Using web tools and methods to support earth science collaborations  Geospatial data management for ecological research organizations  Automating data processing and quality control using workflow software: Converting sensor data to usable environmental information

Keynotes  Patricia Cruse, Founding Director, UC Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library (CDL), “Building Communities, Partnerships, Tools, and Services in Order to Thrive in a Dynamic Information Landscape”   Ned Gardiner, Visualization Manager, NOAA Climate Program Office, “The Future is Unwritten: Data and Information for a Transforming World”,   Digital Universe Atlas,

EZID: Long-term identifers made easy  USGS has signed on to the UC3 EZID system 

Sensors and Workflows  Kepler  Free, open source scientific workflow application  project.org/ project.org/

Semantics & Data Management  Deborah L. McGuinness, RPI, “A Semantically-Enabled Provenance-Aware Water Quality Portal” 

Semantics & Data Management  Carly Strasser, DCXL Project Manager, UC3 DCL, “DataONE: Promoting Data Stewardship Through Best Practices”  Digital Curation for Excel Project – will build an add-in for Microsoft Excel, intended to be open- source, that will assist scientists in preparing their Excel data for sharing 

Discovery, Visualization and Analysis  Kepler, Metacat, EML  Atlas of Living Australia,  Lifemapper: Infrastructure and Services for Biodiversity Science,  Interactive Visualization of Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Diversity,  Digital Universe Atlas,

The Atlas of Living Australia  Lee Belbin, web programmer  $64.7M project, presents continental scale environmental data with a biodiversity focus 

CyberInfrastructure Systems  CUAHSI – Data Interoperability in the Hydrologic Sciences,  Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) – Initial design of data sharing infrastructure,  Zaslavsky, UCSD Supercomputer Center  CZO is a group of NSF-funded observatories  Investigate earth processes in the critical zone, which is the region between bedrock and the atmospheric boundary layer.  Uses CUAHSI data structure

Poster Session  Wade Sheldon, Georgia Coastal Systems LTER, “GCE Data Toolbox: Metadata-driven Software for Data Acquisition, Quality Control and Synthesis”  Speeds up the turn-around time from sensor data acquisition to bringing data online by automating processing, documentation and QC steps  Data can be retrieved for any ClimDB, USGS NWIS or NOAA NWS station across the country  Matlab tools - svn.marsci.uga.edu/trac/GCE_Toolboxhttp://gce- svn.marsci.uga.edu/trac/GCE_Toolbox  “PyGIS” library will be here: svn.marsci.uga.edu/trac/Python-GIS/wikihttps://gce- svn.marsci.uga.edu/trac/Python-GIS/wiki

EIM 2011: Take-home Points  EIM is a forum for idea exchange about management of environmental data  Discussion topics are parallel with issues addressed USGS Community for Data Integration  USGS data were prominently featured in some of the presentations and posters  USGS should play both leadership and participant roles in future EIM conferences by submitting abstracts and attending