DATA & SOFTWARE AT YOURFINGERTIPS: NSF'S EARTHCUBE, END-USERS, ANDPROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance WorkshopWashinton, DCMarch 18-20, 2014

WORKSHOP GOALSSeek guidance on a community-based plan to further cyberinfrastructure in the geosciencesAssess needs, visions, opportunities, and challenges to the EarthCube builders for the end-users and for professional societies Identify ways the EarthCube Commons can support these communities

NSF VISION AND GOALS

Eva ZanzerkiaEarthCube Program ManagerNSF

EARTHCUBE TEST ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE PROJECT

An agile approach to design a system that catalyzes the field and works for the community

How do we link your tools, standards, and skills to create EarthCube?

Stakeholders (Assembly) –governance ideas, testing

Integrate stakeholder concepts -

crowdsource

Synthesize and

recommend to NSF

Establish Organizational

Demo

Facilitate convergence

on system design, data

standards

Evaluate results: basis for

long term organization

Governance timeline – Year 2

Organizational timeline – Year 1Demo phase Governance

charter

NSF solicitation?

WHAT IS EARTHCUBE“GOVERNANCE?”

Not imposition of unwanted command and control

Resistance is futile!

Governance is finding solutions to specific problems, fostering

trust, reconcilinginterests, and coordinatingcommunities.

Providing a ‘backbone’ to help build community

OPPORTUNITIES IN SHAPINGEARTHCUBE

EarthCube governance is a blank canvas

We are looking to you to paint the future

EarthCube CommonsSupporting a voice for the community

Industry & FOSS: Instrumentation, Software, and Technology Developers

Data Facilities &

Users

Professional Societies

IT/CS/ Information

Scientists

End-User Communities &

Workshop Participants

EarthCube Awards Assembly

AdvisoryCouncil

Research Science Communities

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT (YEAR 1): EARTHCUBE ASSEMBLY

Industry & FOSS: Instrumentation, Software, and Technology Developers

Data Facilities &

Users

Professional Societies

IT/CS/ Information

Scientists

End-User Communities &

Workshop Participants

EarthCube Awards Research

Science Communities

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT (YEAR 1): EARTHCUBE ASSEMBLY

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Assembly Advisory Council

DATA FACILITIES

Intended Outcomes End-User Workshop Assembly Workshop

Actual Outcomes Definition of Facilities in EC Context Challenges for Facilities Consensus Topics/Visions of Success Draft Charter for the Council for Data

Facilities Rapid Prototyping WG; Data Citation

and Management WG The Pivot

EARTHCUBE PORTFOLIO

Intended OutcomesFacilitate a

Collaborative Environment for EC Funded Projects

Actual OutcomesSet of Guidelines for

Collaboration

IT/FOSS

Intended Outcomes Learning how EC can

build upon “Connectors” successes (i.e. FOSS Community)

Actual Outcomes4 WGs: brokering, cloud

services,…Proposal forTechnical

Advisory Council for EC

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT (YEAR 1): CROWDSOURCING

New website

www.earthcube.org

EARTHCUBE.ORGThe “Informational Site” Portal

The WorkspaceEarthcube.org

The “Workspace”

A CALL FOR YOUR INVOLVEMENT• Community workshops: Jan – March 2014

• All Hands Meeting, June 24-26, 2014, Washington, DC

• Crowdsourcing:

• Strategic Pathways exercises

• Input & feedback on community

models

• Social Media – Twitter, Facebook

• www.earthcube.org

ASSEMBLY ADVISORY COUNCIL SUMMIT

April 16-18, 2014 Tucson, AZ Lodge on the Desert

Participants: Champions from the Assembly Workshops

Purpose: Craft the EarthCube Demonstration Charter

EARTHCUBE COMMONS

Resolving the social, cultural, and organizational challenges to building infrastructure

EVALUATORS ROLESWorkshop facilitation

Meeting observation and periodic interventions (some built into the agenda and some in “real time” to respond to emergent dynamics) to ask questions that will generate reflection and learning on governance

Targeted facilitation support for the chartering of the new forums after the workshop

FORMATIVE EVALUATION

Testing and analyzing process and solutions

Stakeholder alignment

DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION“learn as you go”

Real-time feedbackOngoing interaction between project staff,

evaluators, and participants (‘strategic learning’)

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Hopes & FearsExploring EarthCube

Grand Challenges in the Geosciences

EarthCubeIntroduction

TBD

Day 1

Outcome: Understanding of each

other’s work and EarthCube(including hopes/fears)

Day 2 Day 3

Outcome: Ideas for how and why to

engage with each other and EarthCube and input into

EarthCube Commons

Overall Outcome:

Determine how short-term, intermediate, and long-

term goals align with the goals of EarthCube

Identify potential areas of collaboration and create a

plan of action

Provide input into a the approach for the EarthCube

“commons”

Exploring EarthCube Awards

Taking the Role of Systems Architects

Taking the Role of Systems Architects

TBD