Earth Science Collaboratory March 2012

Proposing ESIP Meeting Sessions

• "Hackathon" for technical workshops?
  • Choose a collaborative platform and attempt to populate and/or use it.
  • Would require some prep work, learning about the platform, capabilities, how to use
  • Candidate platforms
    • HubZero
    • RAMADDA
    • NASA Earth Exchange
• Planning session
  • Session on enabling technologies?
• Innovation session--choose 1:
  • How the Collaboratory could enable scientific innovation
  • How innovation might be used to implement the Collaboratory
  • Consensus favors #1
  • This led to a discussion on the relative roles of Human Factors and User Stories
    • User stories are "longitudinal" descriptions of use cases, benefits and requirements
    • Human Factors are pervasive considerations for implementing the Collaboratory, but does include some requirements
  • Also discussed whether Scientific Innovation had relevance to decision makers
    • Distinguish high-level federal agency from field offices and state agencies
    • The latter may be conservative in adoption of innovations due to limited budgets
  • Focus on innovation in inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary science
    • Maybe also citicen science

Status Updates

• Technological: planning a EuroGEOSS broker hackathon
  • Also looking at two other technologies
  • Part of selected EAGER proposal for EarthCube
• Programmatic:
  • Recent ROSES/CMAC proposal call has a section targeting collaboratories: Come back in August to see who was selected, whether there is a possibility in leveraging the results of the proposal
  • Earth Cube: 6 technical experiments, 4 community governance groups
    • The groups first need to decide how to work together
• User Stories: looking at framing stories as Before ESC and After ESC