Hi,
The US National Science Foundation is seeking input on community-guided
cyberinfrastructure, such as netCDF and related software exemplify. As
there are many netCDF users who are not on the Unidata community mailing
list to whom the message below was sent, I'm forwarding it to this email
list, hoping you'll help define the science requirements for EarthCube.
--Russ
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- To: community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: [community] EarthCube use cases and workflows solicitation
- From: Mohan Ramamurthy <mohan@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:05:08 -0600
- Delivery-date: Mon Sep 26 10:07:36 2011
Hello Unidata community members,
As you may already be aware, the National Science Foundation is
soliciting input from individuals and organizations from across the
geosciences spectrum to inform and guide its EarthCube project. NSF's
goal for the EarthCube is to "transform the conduct of research by
supporting the development of community-guided cyberinfrastructure to
integrate data and information for knowledge management across the
Geosciences."
In order to design a robust and useful system, the EarthCube project
needs to understand how data-focused science is done in practice -- and
they are currently collecting "science requirements" from members of the
geoscience community. From the EarthCube community site:
Understanding geoscience user's requirements and unmet
cyberinfrastructure needs is a required step in building EarthCube
and advancing the frontiers of knowledge. Please help us by
participating in our online questionnaire so we can better
understand the scope and functionality that will be required by
proposed approaches to the EarthCube system. The questionnaire can
be found at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GeoSciRequirements .
Responses are requested on or before October 15, 2011, and a summary
will be presented at the EarthCube Design Charrette.
As a first step, we encourage you to participate by filling out the
on-line questionnaire before October 15th. In addition, we at the
Unidata Program Center would like to take this process farther by
collecting more specific requirements from Unidata community members,
which we will collate and present to the EarthCube team. We are looking
for community members to provide us with information to compile brief
overviews of their own use cases and science workflows, in an effort to
answer questions like:
* What types of data are most useful? Real-time data streams?
Archived observational data? Model output?
* How do you locate the data that will be useful?
* Once located, how do you access the data? What data formats
and protocols are most valuable?
* What types of tools do you use to do scientific analysis of the data?
* How do you archive and share your results?
* How do you collaborate with others, locally and remotely?
* What percentage of your time would you estimate you spend on
data-related tasks versus scientific analysis and interpretation?
* How can the situation in each of these areas be improved to make
the process of doing science easier and more effective?
If you are willing to participate in this compilation, please reply to
(earthcube@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). For more information on the EarthCube
project, see:
* Overview from News@Unidata blog: (http://bit.ly/rtGRwo)
* The EarthCube community site: (http://earthcube.ning.com/)
* NSF's EarthCube site: (http://www.nsf.gov/geo/earthcube/)
Thank you,
Mohan
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