Sessions due Thursday, May 27!

Final Session List

AGU Fall 2010 Sessions

Please note: if you have additional comments and suggestions please add them here. I will take the submitted sessions and post them here for discussion in a few days. (Peter Fox)

See session proposal sites for session proposal guidelines: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/program/session_proposals.php

Session Idea: Collaborative Frameworks in Earth and Space Sciences (Submitted)

Topics:

• Science 2.0
• use of social media for science research
• technologies for implementing frameworks (e.g., Drupal...)
• challenges (and solutions)
• crowdsourcing of data reviews and uses
  • trust issues
  • recruitment

Text:

The rise of social media in all aspects of society has spurred similar developments in the conduct of scientific research. Social media frameworks promise to make collaboration among scientists a rich, continual, free-flowing, farflung process, hopefully accelerating the pace of scientific progress. This session seeks papers describing the application of collaborative frameworks within Earth and Space sciences. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: use of social media for science research, technologies (e.g., Drupal) for implementing frameworks, approaches to crowdsourcing data collection and analysis, and challenges such as trust issues and recruitment of participants.

Conveners: Christopher Lynnes, Bruce Wilson [BEW: Ranjeet Devarakonda from my group could help with this], (others???)

Session Idea: Combine two sessions from Fall 2009 Meeting

• Combine Semantic e-Science with Emerging Issues in e-Science: Collaboration, Provenance, and the Ethics of Data
  • Fall 2009 Semantic e-Science had interesting presentations, but not enough for oral session
  • Semantic e-Science also addresses topics in collaboration and provenance
  • (comment: there should be enough for a separate semantic session or linked-data but the merge with e-science is probably useful:KM)

• There were multiple submissions in the fall 2009 agu that could have gone into either of these two sessions thus providing evidence for a merged session. The emerging issues did have enough submissions to have an oral session.

Practical Applications of Semantic Web in Earth and Space Sciences: Toward the Killer App

• Conveners
• Vocabulary servers
• Linked open data
• Earth Science Ontologies and Vocabularies

Session Idea: Sensor networks: from sensors to the web

• this year emphasising work on sensing systems which use the web in order to perform better
• these papers are mainly about the whole sensing process and are typically from a wide range of themes
• if there is no semantic sensor web session the abstract will be extended to cover those as well
• proposers: Jane Hart and Kirk Martinez
• Suggestions:
  • The USA National Phenology Network has some stake in this subject (contact Bruce Wilson, ORNL)
  • Bryan Gorman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) has been leading the Sensorpedia effort and could be a good speaker

Session Idea: Methods and Frameworks for Model-Data intercomparison

• Challenges with integrating observational and model data
• Provenance and identity issues in synthesis studies
• (comment from KM) this seems to fit well with inter-op session? best to join them?

Session Idea: Data System Interoperability and Standards

• Merge all interop sessions into one
• There are always a lot of submissions in this area
• Interoperability and Standards Topics:
  • Data: This can go beyond the usual interoperability of HDF, NetCDf, HDF-EOS data formats. Could also include how to ensure interoperability across data handling tools (e.g. visualization) as well as API libraries of these formats.
  • Metadata: Interoperability across metadata conventions and their variations. Standards like the Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions that extend the COARDS conventions. Interoperability of data generated by API libraries (e.g. NetCDF-Java Common Data Model) of these standards.
  • Search: Methods of interoperability for metadata and data search. For example, in Federated OpenSearch, it extends the OpenSearch standard for use with Earth science data by adding spatial and temporal constraints, as well as requiring a two layer (dataset and data granule) search. The use of OpenSearch improves interoperability since responses are returned in Atom/RSS format.
  • Workflow: Standards on workflow languages (e.g. WS-BPEL). How to integrate disparate workflow engines and formats to coordinate seamlessly.
  • Provenance: How to ensure that provenance captured by one tool is equally understandable by another. This also relates to semantics of provenance (e.g. OPM OWL). Additionally, there is service provenance, processing provenance, and data provenance interoperability issues to address.
  • Semantics: rule sharing, "Is my 'dataset' sameas your 'data collection'?".
  • Cross cutting topics:

• Text:

We live in an age of an increasing number of Earth Science data systems, online data repositories, and end-user science processing workstations, which constitutes the greatest body of scientific data ever. These datasets are critical to the collaborative, interdisciplinary research necessary to address the pressing ecological problems of our time and to increase our basic understanding of the Earth and its processes.

Yet, this body of data is underused because of the interoperability problem. Incompatibility among metadata schemas & service interfaces, little or no semantics of search results, and distributed & heterogeneous data systems, result in datasets being undiscovered and underutilized. Incompatible workflow languages and engines mean stove piped data processing. The plethora of data formats requires resources to be spent making the data readable and writable instead of doing science.

Standards for data and services help greatly in this problem, except, of course, when there are so many to choose from or none at all.

This session seeks experiences and insights towards the goals of improved standards and increased interoperability in the areas of: data, metadata, search, semantics, workflows, provenance, and other related areas. Experiences encompassing multiple interoperability and standards topics are especially encouraged.

• Conveners: Hook Hua (JPL), Anne Wilson (CU, LASP), ???

Comment: Cyndy Chandler (BCO-DMO, WHOI) is interested in co-convening this session

This session was merged with one proposed by Steve Berrick. This summary was submitted:

A key vision tenet of NASA and other Earth science data systems is
interoperability: a future of multiple data streams seamlessly combined, research & other communities using data interoperably, and data & processing being mobile. Progress has been made yet we are still far from achieving this vision. For many data users & national/international partners,interoperability for our data and data systems remains unmet. Future missions will generate new data in much larger volumes. An emphasis on societal benefits will add more diverse user communities. Focus is standards, interoperability cross-cutting technologies, and lessons learned without compromising on the data quality
richness that future missions will bring.

Am proposing a rewrite:

A key aspect of collaborative, interdisciplinary scientific research is interoperability: a future of multiple data streams seamlessly combined, research & other communities using data interoperably, and data & processing being mobile. Progress has been made yet we are still far from achieving this vision. Increasing data volumes and more diverse user communities increase the challenge. This session seeks experiences and insights towards the goals of improving standards and their usage, and increased interoperability in the areas of: data, metadata, search, semantics, and other related areas. Cross cutting technologies are encouraged.

• PF - the PC will resolve this change after the deadline has past (thanks)

Session Idea: Data Publication and Citation

• Best practices for tracking data provenance and attribution
• Transparency necessitates access to data
• Publisher and funding agency requirements to publish data supporting articles and other static data sets
• Technical and cultural challenges
• Conveners: Bruce Wilson (ORNL) + ??? (could get someone from California Digital Library involved, possibly ESIP provenance group).
• Cyndy Chandler (WHOI, BCO-DMO) volunteers to co-convene this session and bring in the work being done by the IODE Working Group

Session Idea: Technology infusion

• Technology infusion success stories and experiences.
• Conveners: Karen Moe, GSFC

Session Idea: Data quality / uncertainty

• Conveners: Rob Raskin, JPL ?

Session Idea: Data Fusion +

• David Arctur, Peter Fox

Session idea: GIScience

• Olga Wilhelmi, Dewayne Branch

GIScience with large scale open source

Session Idea: Information Systems Advances for Earth Science Decadal Survey Era Missions

• Sensor system support, advanced data processing, and data management that utilize information system advances to enable and respond to the scientific objectives of the decadal survey.
• Conveners: Charles Norton, JPL and Karen Moe, GSFC

Session idea: Another Emerging Topics: what???

educational pipeline development for earth Science informatics

• showing STEM and earth science informatics training linkages and best practices and learning for next generation
• this could also be a documentation of biggest challenges where there is no formal educational training, such as meta data convergence