Facilitating Next Generation Science Collaboration: Marine Ecosystems Status Reports and Assessments June 24, 2014 IMBER – D2 Peter Fox (RPI/ Tetherless World Constellation and WHOI/AOP&E) and collaborators on the NSF INTEROP ECOOP project.

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Why important? Stace Beaulieu

Vision? “Our vision is to develop, facilitate, and maintain sustained multi-way engagement of natural and social scientists and many practitioners in multi- scale local to global networks for LMEs”. Goal: We want to perform routine assessments of LMEs involving all (or as many) stakeholders and we want robust science data presented in forms that various end-users can consume… and verify

Environmental Assessment

Northeast Status Report ?

Generation Stace Beaulieu

Tracing Stace Beaulieu

Traceability Stace Beaulieu

Leveraging the Global Change Information System Stace Beaulieu

Instrument a tool - iPython Stace Beaulieu

Screenshot of IPython Notebook used to track both data and workflow provenance Code in Python, Matlab, R, other Stace Beaulieu

Screenshot of IPython Notebook used to track both data and workflow provenance Notebook can be shared, or output as script, HTML, PDF, other Stace Beaulieu

PDF output of IPython Notebook with clickable links to data and code Stace Beaulieu

Screenshot of csv file at GitHub Access not only to the data that are plotted, but also to provenance metadata for reproducibility Stace Beaulieu

Outcomes Implemented PROV-O in iPython NoteBook* Extended global change information system ontology for this work to include dataset generation Improved the practice of annotation and generation of report materials

Thanks!

Past Experience with PROV Stace Beaulieu

Extended Use Case Stace Beaulieu