1. Collaboration and Outreach
Advisory Board Meeting
August 2, 2012

2. DataNet Collaboration
DataONE: Member Node
DFC: Extracts to iRODS
SEAD: Researcher communities
DataNet-wide

3. MPC as DataONE Member Node
resolve
get
search
synchronize
replicate

4. Contributions to DataONE Catalog
DataONE works in terms of datasets
Selected high-interest area-level extracts
Total population, population density
Education
Occupation
Household utilities
Metadata with pointers to our data access systems

5. Collaboration with DFC-iRODS
Export extracts to iRODS collaboration environment
Store in external data grid
Access from anywhere
Share with collaborators
Incorporate into iRODS workflows
Variations on input data sets and parameters
Organize inputs and outputs
Demo with IPUMS expand to TerraPop

6. SEAD Researcher Communities
Connect people, publications, and data
Scripts to harvest information from Google Scholar, EndNote, etc.
Visualizations of networks
Facilitate data discovery through network
MPC community
Bibliography
Research topics
Extract history

7. TerraPop-SEAD Topics of Mutual Interest
Time series linkages
Connections among similar data over time
Identification and harmonization
Geographic linkages
Place identifiers
Translation across boundaries

8. DataNet-Wide Collaboration
DataNet branding, web page
Cyberinfrastructure
Interoperability of software stacks
Technical sustainability
Semantic integration
Community Engagement
Governance
Long-term financial sustainability
Data management training
Cross-disciplinary awareness of data resources
[Insert DataNet logo here]

9. Outreach
Use Scenarios
Publicity Activities & Plans
Education

10. Use Scenario 1 Hypothesis/research question: Research objective:
Where and why do farmers cut down tropical rainforest to plant agricultural crops?
Research objective:
Establish the social and environmental factors in farm-level decision making and determine how these factors play out in specific places, times, contexts.
Study Region:
Yucatan Penninsula

11. Use Scenario 1 Variables Source Data Format Desired Data Format
Temperature
Raster
Area-level
(districts)
Rainfall
Elevation
Socioeconomic & Demographic
Microdata
Land use/Land cover

12. Use Scenario 2 Hypothesis/research question: Research objective:
Health outcomes depend on local variations in the physical environment.
Research objective:
Demonstrate enhanced understanding of health outcomes related to both physical and social environmental conditions at sub-national levels.
Study Area:
Ghana, Malawi and Tanzania

13. Use Scenario 2 Variables Source Data Format Desired Data Format
Temperature
Raster
Area-level
(Districts)
Rainfall
Elevation
Infant and child mortality
Microdata
Age structure
Literacy
Household access to toilet

14. TerraPop.org Informational content Traffic to-date Mailing lists
1,153 unique visitors
55 countries
265 U.S. cities
161 international cities
Mailing lists
642 registered
330 participating in “Development community”

15. Networking Existing MPC Users Personal Networks Project Partners
Co-PIs
Personal Networks
Advisory Board
Project Partners
DataNet Partners
Population-Environment
Research Network
Users’ Group

16. Broadening Horizons Conferences & Associations

17. Broadening Horizons Research Communities
Environmental justice
Coupled human and natural systems
Political ecology
Sustainable urban planning
Hazards and risk assessment
Landscape ecology
Natural resources management

18. Education Graduate Students K-12 & Community Metadata Boundaries
Data Management
Software development
K-12 & Community
Science on a Sphere
Fathom