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Towards a Conceptual Design of a Cross-Domain Integrative
Information System for the Geosciences
ILYA ZASLAVSKY, DAVID VALENTINE, AMARNATH GUPTA San Diego Supercomputer Center/UCSD
STEPHEN RICHARD Arizona Geological Survey
TANU MALIK University of Chicago
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The Vision
EarthCube: complex socio-technical system of systems:
Link previously disconnected domain subsystems, people and organizations
knowledge sharing
data-intensive, integrative cross-domain research
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EarthCube System of Systems
• cross-domain integration environment– alignment of
stakeholder interests– scholarly
communication
Bring Research and Community
components together
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Queries• Who else in the community is interested in information resources I am using,
and what is their background and interests?• How do I find resources that have documentation of their prior use in the
context I am interested in?• Which data resources that I have generated have been cited, and in which
journals and disciplines?• What is the “reputation” of a specific data source/data provider?• What issues have been reported with respect to usage of a given information
resource or a model?• How do I find researchers for my project team who have worked on a specific
data or model?• Have the results reported in a given paper been reproduced?• Are the information resources that I found appropriate for my use case? What
is known about their readiness and fitness-for-use in a similar context?
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Challenges
• Promote community engagement• What is the Scope of the system• How to:
– Harmonize technical and social subsystems as technical developments reshape social networks and attitudes
– Build Rewards system to promote EarthCube success– Create a self-organizing system based on trust– Reconcile domain differences: research design focus,
tools and conventions, phases of self-organization – Conceptualize “fitness for re-use” and “interoperability-
readiness”?
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Approach
• Adapt research enterprise to 21st century technology– Larger community, new communication channels, more
information– Issues are mostly reshaping social networks and attitudes
• Paradigm: Emergent, Self-organizing system• Requires more direct interaction between agents in the
system
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Data, Domain stacks, Integration
Copyright © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium
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Geoscience Small-scale Enterprise
Publication
ResearchProcess Proposal
Writing
Partners
Ideas
Share Ideas
Analyze Data
Manage Data
Simulate, Experiment, Observe
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Feedback loop
Resources ActivitiesUsage
Log
Recommendations Impact
Analysis
PublicationDiscussionData useData revisionAnnotation…
People, ModelsData…
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Approach
• Understand community expectations• Analyze and what has lead to success
– Architecture designs of other systems– Enhance existing patterns of information exchange
• Incorporate social technology in research enterprise– Klout, PeerIndex, Academia.com, Mendeley, Google Scholar,
LinkedIn, ResearchGate… 40+ research profiling systems
• Integrate with recognized cyberinfrastructure components: – catalogs, data services, repositories, standards, workflows
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OOI
THREDDS
NGDS
VOEIS
IOOS
EOSDIS
CUAHSI HIS
WaterSmart
CZO
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Some survey snapshots informing conceptual design
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Some survey snapshots informing conceptual design
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Connecting people, projects, resources, publications, curricula…
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• USGS• Academic Data
Centers• National
Research Facility
• IBM• Microsoft• Elsevier• ESRI
• Geoscientists• Social
organization experts
• Mendeley• OGC
Different perspectives on information system development
A summit planned for the end of Year 1
Advisory Team of Large Information System Architects
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Key OGC questions
• The role of OGC standards in EarthCube; • How OGC governance of standards lifecycle can be
integrated with EarthCube governance• How OGC architecture designs developed through IEs,
pilots and service testbeds can inform EarthCube;• How can OGC and EarthCube cross-pollinate
community building• Joint Use cases in OGC and EarthCube ideas for
integration?• How OGC domain working groups and EarthCube
disciplinary domains work together.
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Acknowledgements
• EAR-1238420: EAGER: Readiness of Disciplinary Data Systems for Cross-Domain Interoperability within a Standards-Based EarthCube Reference Framework, 2012-2013
• ICER-1343813: EarthCube Conceptual Design: Enterprise Architecture for Transformative Research and Collaboration Across the Geosciences, 2013-2015
CONTACT:Ilya Zaslavsky, [email protected]
Steve Richard [email protected]
