1. COOPEUS Background 1) SYMPOSIUM ON TRANSATLANTIC EU-U.S. COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF LARGE SCALE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES October 1, 2010 And 2) Meeting

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COOPEUS Background

1) SYMPOSIUM ON TRANSATLANTIC EU-U.S. COOPERATION IN THE

FIELD OF LARGE SCALE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURESOctober 1, 2010

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2) Meeting at the Annual AAAS Conference in February 2011

GEPW-7 Barcelona, April 15-16

COOPEUS Background

How can coordination in use of US and EU Environmental Research Infrastructures be improved to maximize scientific productivity and cost effectiveness?

Presentation by T. Killeen, NSF


COOPEUS VISION

• COOPEUS has to contribute to roadmapping processes by providing relevant scientific information

Forward-looking strategic thinking about infrastructures

ESFRI Brochure:European Research Infrastructures with global impactSome examples from the ESFRI Roadmap


COOPEUS VISIONCAVEATS

• Infrastructures are very costly and the funding available for non-infrastructure oriented research necessarily shrinks. – One should try to preserve the ability to respond quickly and

creatively to new discoveries

• Roadmapping can be a victim of its own success .... If an attempt is made to set priorities across disparate fields a loss of specificity and focus can occur and the outcomes of the exercise could become less actionable ….

OECD Global Science Forum, Report on Roadmapping of Large Research Infrastructures, December 2008


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Project full title: "Strengthening the cooperation between the US and the EU in the field of environmental research infrastructures"

COOPEUS Background

FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES

Duration: 09/2012 – 08/2015

SCOPE: Expand the International cooperation between the EU and the USA on common data policies and standards relevant to environmental Research Infrastructures

Opportunity: Partners will set focus areas priorities


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COOPEUS Participating Environmental Research Infrastructures:

Focus Area EU USA

Atmospheric radar Eiscat – AMISR

Ocean observations EMSO – OOI

Biodiversity Lifewatch – DataOne

Solid Earth dynamics EPOS – IRIS/UNAVCO

Carbon observations ICOS – NEON


EU Partners• UNIVERSITAET Bremen (Uni-HB) (the Coordinator) -• ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA (INGV)• EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION (EISCAT)• COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (CEA)• AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONESCIENTIFICAS (CSIC)• KONINKLIJK NEDERLANDS METEOROLOGISCH INSTITUUT (KNMI)• ILMATIETEEN LAITOS (FMI)• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA TUSCIA (Unitus)• MARINE INSTITUTE (MI) Partners from USA• UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (UW)• WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (WHOI)• THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (SCRIPPS)• NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY (NEON)• INCORPORATED RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS FOR SEISMOLOGY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION

(IRIS)• UNAVCO INC (Unavco) • Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR)• DataONE

COOPEUS Consortium

8GEPW-7 Barcelona, April 15-16

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COOPEUS Framework - Overall Structure - Workflow

Identify Need and Rationale

Establish implementation rules

Give recommendation for implementation

Prioritize themes

Select use casesCore

Standards

Policies

Testbeds

Legal issues


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COOPEUS is based on a Bottom-up approach built on existing infrastructures with substantial experience from ongoing transatlantic collaborations.

COOPEUS framework:

Example: IRIS earthquake browser which shares data from many RIs including COOPEUS partner – EPOS/ORFEUS


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The Challenge•In a technical sense, easy access to distributed computing infrastructures is assumed

•However, the entire process ofDISCOVERY, ACCESS and USEhas to be enhanced for users

•Key reason for the issue:Large amount and variety of data and diversity of users

DataTerminologyMetadataData

InfrastructureSemanticsStructureSyntaxSystem

Human PlayersConsumersFacilitatorsProviders

Dimension of information mediation


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The Challenge

• Ubiquitous use of data leads to new requirements as data and information are used in other contexts (semantic interoperability) – understanding the state of knowledge in other domains

• With advances in interoperability, the focus is shifting from heterogenity in system, syntax and structure to semantics


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Addressing the Challenges

• Architectures have to be: Interoperable, Scalable, Extensible and Adaptable

• Using a Brokering Approach

– Geographic and environmental information systems are calling for integration of metadata and vocabularies

– Information brokering is providing arbitration between user and provider


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Impacts and BenefitsIMPACTS

• Better information resource discovery and access

• Semantics and metadata facilitate understanding across disciplines

• domain knowledge is more accessible

COOPEUS will:

• stimulate in-domain and cross-domain collaborations,

• identify best practices, standards and

• demonstrate brokering applications through use cases

• Identify essential components for effective collaboration


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Relation to GEOSS

• COOPEUS partners are actively contributing to GEOSS tasks

• COOPEUS will make use of existing GEOSS initiatives and community networks

• GEOSS is seen as a model to learn how to organize international collaborations and to be aware of potential pitfalls


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Relation to GEOSS

• Being an international endeavor, COOPEUS will built up on experience collected within GEOSS

• GEOSS is offering tools to demonstrate the effectiveness of international collaboration

GEOSS Geohazard Supersites• COOPEUS is meant to work on data policies and

IPR issues that will help to facilitate the data ingestion within GEOSS


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CONCLUSIONS

COOPEUS • is meant to explore benefits of transatlantic

and cross-disciplinary cooperations in the field of environmental research infrastructures

• will produce new concepts on how to consolidate knowledge and information to enable cross-disciplinary use

• Exploring standards and brokering approach to improve multidisciplinary research


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Further information onCOOPEUS project

HTTP://WWW.COOPEUS.EU


Documents

1. COOPEUS Background 1) SYMPOSIUM ON TRANSATLANTIC EU-U.S. COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF LARGE SCALE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES October 1, 2010 And 2) Meeting