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Hello all, It turns out today is the deadline for proposing sessions for the Fall AGU meeting. It will be important to have at least one ESSI (Earth and Space Science Informatics) session along the lines of what has been done in the past. From the last two AGU meetings, I've dug out two session descriptions that could serve as a model. If I don't hear from anyone else soon, I'll put something together along these lines and submit it. http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/session_proposals.php But I encourage others to submit ESSI sessions as well. -- Ben ================================================ Building Interoperability Across the Geosciences There are a number of critical stumbling blocks to overcome in creating the geoinformatics component of the Cyberinfrastructure for the Sciences. These challenges include: agreement on common standards, vocabularies, and protocols; engagement in a vast number of distributed data resources; practices for recognition of and respect of intellectual property; a simple data discovery system with distributed and integrated catalogues; mechanisms to encourage development of web sevice tools for analysis; and business models for continuing maintenance and evolution of information. This session will showcase the national and international initiatives and partnerships that are successfully overcoming these challenges and starting to achieve interoperability across geoscience domains. These efforts include organized systems and networks such as the Geosciences Information Network,OneGeology, GeoSciNet,and the National Geoinformatics System, as well as use of standards such as GeoSciML, WaterML, OGC and a number of others. Presentations will discuss progress to date, philosophies, and solutions to problems in informatics and building interoperability. Examples will include the kinds of dynamic and powerful science capabilities that can be realized. Standards-Based Interoperability Among Tools and Data Services in the Earth Sciences Topics for this session include development of interoperable data access, analysis and display systems based on evolving international standards. These are embodied by a variety of efforts including: the specifications of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO and community standards such as OPeNDAP, the netCDF Climate and Forecast Conventions, the standards adoption processes at NASA and NOAA, and the Observations Data Model of the hydrology community. Examples of concerted efforts to develop demonstrations of these interoperability technologies include: Geo-interface to Atmosphere, Land, Environment, Ocean; netCDF (GALEON); the Ocean Sciences Interoperability Experiment; and GEOSS Web Services Network (GWS). These initiatives are facilitating standards-based access to multi-dimensional Fluid Earth Science (mainly the atmospheric and ocean sciences) datasets by employing and influencing the evolution of the emerging standards such as Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Catalog Services for the Web (CS-W), and the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) suite which includes the Sensor Observation Service (SOS). Presentations and demonstrations for this session are encouraged for interoperability efforts in addition to those mentioned here. If possible, there will be a special electronic poster area set up for live, online demonstrations of these interoperability technologies. ================================================ On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:01 PM, David Maidment<maidment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ben: > > > > We should definitely do a session at Fall AGU on “Data Interoperability in > the Geosciences using OGC Standards”. I went to several sessions on > informatics at EGU Vienna and there was a lot of interesting stuff presented > but the most interesting session was one that was not at first in the formal > program – a “splinter session” that Stefano and George Percivall of OGC > organized informally that had a series of presentations about use of OGC > standards in various geosciences domains. The difference between this and > the other informatics sessions was the session had an intellectual spine and > a consistent methodology while what I heard in other sessions was a > collection of neat stuff without a lot of common patterns. I have to say, > though, that netCDF and THREDDS is a common pattern that is starting to > emerge here in Europe. I was VERY impressed by the work presented by Jon > Blower of the Reading e-Science Center about the use of THREDDS by the UK > Met Office. Sounds like you have a great engagement with them. I am in > Geneva with Ilya Zaslavsky now and will meet to today with people from the > WMO about the OGC/WMO working group in hydrology. It’s a meet and greet > session to get to know one another. > > > > David > > > > From: bendomenico@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:bendomenico@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ben > Domenico > Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:01 PM > To: David Maidment > Cc: Stefano Nativi; George Percivall > Subject: Re: Digital Earth > > > > Hi David, Stefano and George, > > > > I'm pleased that the EGU sessions have gone well. A month or two ago I > contacted the AGU about publishing ESSI presentations in an electronic form. > There was interest and a few questions from their electronic journals > person. But I have not heard back from them since I answered their > questions. > > > > This is a good reminder to me to pester them about it once more. > > > > Wish I were there. Because the Europeans are so committed to standards, the > EGU is a great meeting for such discussions. > > > > -- Ben > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:12 AM, David Maidment <maidment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Stefano: > > > > Your issue of Digital Earth is cool. It would be good to do something > similar from this meeting. > > > > Thanks for your leadership of EGU-ESSI. I was very enlightened by our > session on OGC services yesterday. We should do something similar for AGU in > San Francisco in December. > > > > I agree that OGC standards are the way to go to achieve interoperability in > the GeoSciences. > > > > David > > > > > > David R. Maidment > > Director, Center for Research in Water Resources > > University of Texas > > Austin Tx 78712 > > Tel: (512) 471-0065 > > Email: maidment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > >
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