1. The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners
Peter Fox, President
February 2015
(also

2. 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” ( )
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

3. 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.

4. 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..

5. 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) *

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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…

11. 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 *

12. 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.

13. Strategic Plan 2014 2015 Get Involved
Revisited 2009 strategic plan and goals, documented accomplishmentshttp://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ _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,

14. What ESIP has done – one e.g.

15. 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 …

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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
2015
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:
Telecons

21. Citation, IDs – years ahead…
Originated in the Stewardship Cluster (now Preservation and Stewardship Committee)
From the community - dates back to late Guideline in late 2011, and adopted by the ESIP Assembly early in 2012
der_guidelines
ESIP Resolution – related to joint declaration on DC principles: ation_Principles
And identifiers: Cases
Duerr et al, 2011, On the utility of identification schemes for digital earth science data: an assessment and recommendations, Earth Science Informatics: /s

22. 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.

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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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:
Monthly telecons – 1st Thursday 3:00 Eastern Time

27. Products & Services Committee
2014 (Chair: Christine White)
Testbed -
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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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 (
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

31. Data Study Working Group
2014 (Chair: Anne Wilson)
Released workshop report, “Planning for a Community Study of Scientific Data Infrastructure”,
Presented work at SciDataCon 2014, Actualizing_an_Effective,_Sustainable_Science_Data_Infrastructure.pptx
Provided input to NITRD RFI, NITRD_RFI_ESIPDataStudy_ _final.pdf
Published EOS forum piece, “Realizing the Value of a National Asset: Scientific Data”,
2015
Investigation of potential opportunities
NRC’s “Next Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space”,
Possible BRDI study on fiscal sustainability of data repositories
Get Involved

32. 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

33. Documentation Cluster
2014 (Chairs: Ed Armstrong, Ted Habermann )
Attribute Convention for Data Discovery Version 1.3 Approved in December 2014 (
Documenting the Big Earth Data Initiative (BEDI) -
2015
Encoding metadata groups/attributes in HDF and netCDF
Get involved
Wiki:
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:
New version on ESIP wiki

34. 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

35. Drupal Working Group 2014 (Chairs: Adam Shepherd, David Bassendine)
6 webinars from Drupal experts (YouTube:
2 ESIPers supported to attend Drupalcon Austin 2014
Growing ScienceOnDrupal community (
Saw Drupal recognized as Top-10 Open Source project by opensource.com (
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
See Adam Shepherd or David Bassendine

36. 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

37. 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 -
Earth science ontology portal now available and serving as community hub -
2015
Focus on ontology governance efforts and reuse
Increase semantic infrastructure available to community
Semantic Technology Expo
Get Involved
Contact Tom Narock,
Telecons: 4th Tuesday at 4pm

38. 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 …

39. 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

40. 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

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

42. 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
Participating in White House Big Earth Data Initiative (BEDI) with Federal Partners

43. 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)

44. 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.

45. 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. *

46. 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

47. 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

48. ESIP Online Home page Wiki Commons Facebook Twitter http://esipfed.org
Commons
Facebook
Twitter
@ESIPPres

49. Questions?
Erin Robinson, (Executive Director) Peter Fox,