1. Roadmap Workshop agenda
Plenary presentations 9:20 - 9:40 Introduction to Roadmap process (S. Sorvari, FMI) 9: :00 Fostering transatlantic cooperation and the integration of Earth observing projects into GEOSS (Gilles Olliers, EC) 10: :25 The Belmont Forum E-infrastructures and Data Management (Maria Uhle, NSF) 10:25- 10:45 Plenary discussions 10: :00 Break 11: :30 Presentation of the RI landscape in the environmental field on both sides of the Atlantic (A. Asmi, UHEL/FMI and L.Powers, NEON)

2. Roadmap Workshop agenda
Break-out discussions 11:30-11:40 Break-out group introduction (A. Asmi, S. Sorvari) 11:40-13:00 Guided discussion on the research infrastructure landscape and COOPEUS strategy development 13: :00 Lunch break 14: :45 Report from the discussions (break-out group rapporteurs) 14: :15 Next steps in the Roadmap process (S. Sorvari) 15:15-15:30 Break 15:30 – 17:00 COOPEUS Business meeting

3. COOPEUS roadmap process
Sanna Sorvari, Finnish Meteorological Institute

4. Motivation
Roadmap process will define common objectives and actions for future collaboration
Enhance our understanding and clarifies our scope
enhances the communication (coherent, common message to users and funding bodies)
Helps on targeting the efforts and work
COOPEUS funders (EC & NSF) requested a roadmap from the community

5. COOPEUS Strategy and roadmap
Evaluation
Actions
Vision
Introduction/
starting point
Roadmap part
Strategic part
What needs to be done?
Where do we want to be?
Where are we now?
Environmental research infrastructures are meant to operate long term – thus long term plans and vision is needed
Timeframe: 10 years
05/12/2018

6. Evaluation: landscape analysis
We agreed to perform a landscape analysis both in EU and US
Starting point: Domain-based (atmospheric, marine, solid Earth, ecosystem) > integrated picture
Ari & Lindsay
Why to do this? To answer following questions:
1. Is the landscape sufficient enough? Are there gaps?
2. What is the sustainability of the RIs in the landscape?
3. Are the services provided by the RIs sufficient for the users to answer the environmental challenges and societal needs?

7. Service provision (supply) orientation

8. COOPEUS Strategy and roadmap
Environmental research infrastructures are meant to operate long term – thus long term plans and vision is needed
Evaluation
Actions
Vision
Introduction/
starting point
Roadmap part
Strategic part
What needs to be done?
Where do we want to be?
Where are we now?
Timeframe: 10 years
05/12/2018

9. COOPEUS Mission
To facilitate the accessibility of data from research infrastructures to advance our understanding across Earth systems through an international community-driven effort, by:
Engaging user communities;
Addressing changing societal and scientific needs;
Removing technical, scientific, cultural and geopolitical barriers for data use; and
Promoting the flow, integrity and preservation of information.

10. COOPEUS Strategy and roadmap
Environmental research infrastructures are meant to operate long term – thus long term plans and vision is needed
Evaluation
Actions
Vision
Introduction/
starting point
Roadmap part
Strategic part
What needs to be done?
Where do we want to be?
Where are we now?
Timeframe: 10 years
05/12/2018

11. Perspectives of the roadmap
Technological capital
Cultural capital
Human capital

12. ICOS Architecture User Community Support Data Access Data Management
Data Acquisition
05/12/2018

13. Common Architecture RIs Acquisition Management Access Processing
Community Support
EISCAT-3D
Yes No
Request
Euro-Argo
EMSO
ICOS
EPOS
LifeWatch
EGI
EUDAT
05/12/2018

14. ENVRI Reference Model Community support Data acquisition
Data processing
Data curation
Data access

15. Proposed process towards COOPEUS roadmap
3 workshops
Hyytiälä ws (SEPT 2014) on mission and landscape
AGU 2014 ws on technological capital (data and technologies)
EGU 2015 ws on cultural and human capitals
Domain/WP specific work between the workshops
First draft June 2014
COOPEUS roadmap for approval in the final COOPEUS meeting (D84., M36)
Participants: all COOPEUS RIs and beyond

16. Today’s focus Technological capital (data and technologies)
Questions sent to WPs by Ari
Focus on concrete actions what partners consider important for the future

17. Action NAME OF THE GOAL: Level of collaboration: User Benefit:
RI Benefit:
(expected) timeline of action, types of actions and needed resources
Other notes

18. Previous inputs

20. Aim of this work:
We are working together to get efficient cross-Atlantic (and later hopefully global) collaboration of environmental research infrastructures. We are well aware of several issues, which are not currently well coordinated and interoperable. Based on this, we need now to figure out what are
The main realistic short and long term goals we are envisioning;
What are the benefits to the scientific community and to the society from this; and
What are the processes and actions needed to achieve these goals.
As COOPEUS is a data-oriented project we need to concentrate on the data products. This means in practice that no direct hardware development or user training can be included, but e.g. sensor level data handling routines are already covered in this context.
Practical guidance
The session in San Francisco is SHORT, so please work beforehand to come up with thought-out, practical, realistic goals and suggested actions. We will naturally discuss more during the workshop, but the time for very open blue-sky discussion is very limited.
You should determine your priorities through discussions within your RI, user groups and the COOPEUS cross-Atlantic partner. The aim is to give a set of clear, science user or RI benefitting, changes we wish to achieve within the next years (with perspective of 20 years).
For each goal (see below for suggestions) consider the following issues: (empty template in the end of the document)

21. Access policies for data
defining policies when and who should have data access
developing common shared data access models
Common authorization routines (or services)
Similar (or same) computer-readable access licenses
Data identification
Common methods and standards for identifying datasets (granularity)
Identifying data versions and subsets of data (reproducibility/traceability)
Common standards of data publication (when and which phase, data journals?)
Bibliometric indicators – authorship, credit, indicators for RI success
Data documentation
Metadata harmonization
Terminology integration
Workflow documentation methods and standards – model of measurement-data production
Minimum requirements
Semantic linking of datasets
Data conversion and processing documentation
Data processing standardization (related to workflows) 

22. Data integrity
Data checksums, versioning strategies, long-term archiving
Documentation of responsibilities
Common minimum standards for integrity checking and documentation
Quality control methods during data acquisition (common calibration methods/ intercalibrations / QA documentation)
Standardized error estimation methods
Near Real Time products
Common data acquisition methods
Publishing issues of NRT data (responsibilities, access limitations)
Low level on-line data inversion/ analysis collaboration
Correlated data products development
Methods and algorithmic development
Standardization of types, and routines
Access formalization – handling different license datasets
Interoperability of low level datasets
Other areas not currently covered under COOPEUS but essential to achieving the COOPEUS mission for your RI.

23. Issues related to technical perspective
Proposed topics for discussion:
Joint technical development /instrumentation and methods
Joint novel sensor/instrument development (stimulating the innovations and markets)
Measurement methodology
Co-location
RI counter parts (instrument testing, compaigns, site set-up, netwrok design,...)
Cross-domain collaboration (joint sites, ICOS-ANAEE- ACTRIS sites, marine platforms with atmospheric measurements,..)
International planning of RI networks and collaboration, co-locations, ...
Physical access management
Mechanisms to support and manage transatlantic access to the RIs,...

24. Questions to answer For each topic:
Proposed topics for discussion:
Joint technical development /instrumentation and methods
Co-location
Physical access management
Questions to answer
For each topic:
What is your vision for the future? What do you wish to have in 10yrs?
Are there “low-hanging-fruits” for rapid demonstration?
What would be the pathways to these goals?
What could be the titles for such projects?
Who would be needed as partners?
When they should be timed? How large they should be?
What kind of resources are needed? Are current instruments good for such activities?

25. Strategic Cooperation Board
Task 8.3
Task 8.1
input
Workshop
on roadmap
planning
Strategic plan and roadmap
SCB meeting
SCB meeting
SCB meeting
Task 8.2
SCB meeting
Strategic Cooperation Board

26. Proposed process towards COOPEUS roadmap
3 workshops
Hyytiälä ws on Technological development
AGU 2014 ws on Data interopebility and managment
EGU 2015 ws on capacity building, dissemination and liaisons
Domain specific work between the workshops
First draft June 2014
COOPEUS roadmap for approval in the final COOPEUS meeting (D84., M36)
Participants: all COOPEUS RIs and beyond
Mobilization and activity of
the RI communities are important