Prof. Peter Fox (pfox@cs.rpi.edu, @taswegian, #twcrpi)

Tetherless World Constellation Chair, Earth and Environmental Science/ Computer Science/ Cognitive Science/ IT and Web Science)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY USA

And the Deep Carbon Observatory Data Science Team

RDA/P4 Science Track, Sept. 22, 2014

http://tw.rpi.edu/web/doc/DCODataInMotion_RDA_Fox20140922.ppt

Smart Data in Motion for the Deep Carbon Observatory.

(Implementation of Open-World, Integrative, Transparent, Collaborative Science Data Platforms)

Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) …

• “We are dedicated to achieving transformational understanding of carbon’s chemical and biological roles in Earth.”

www.deepcarbon.net

Data Science is …

• Doing science with someone else’s data … – across datasets– with models– multi-dimensional, multi-scale, multi-mode– complex data-types– needing new analytic and visual approaches

• Especially in multiple “dimensions” (functional) – E.g. Detection/ attribution methods/ algorithms– Visual exploration

• Today – is collaborative, performed in a network, and web-based …

Collaboration and Integration needs …

• “Enable DCO team leaders to create new groups and associate a number of content types --- documents, discussions, blog posts, tasks, links, and bibliographic entries --- with the group, as well as simple event management (a private event calendar for the group) and embedding of external services (e.g. and esp. Google Calendar)” … more… (data, publications, projects)… a Knowledge Network … and a Virtual Organization (> 1000 people)

-> DCO Data Science Platform

Data in Motion

deepcarbon.net

info.deepcarbon.net

dx.deepcarbon.net

data.deepcarbon.net

Collaboration tools

Group Based CollaborationGroup data deposit and

reporting

Listings of group

content Group management

and messagingListings of

group documents

Group bibliography

Group task management

Group membership Group event

management

Group shared calendar

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All information is linked and traceable!

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Research activities report dashboard:Results updated in real time as new member registered, new activities

reported, new publication uploaded…

TW-SPARQL Application: Parameterized Report Generation (using Drupal host)

S2S Faceted Browser Application: DCO People BrowserIncludes map facet for selecting people in regionFacets in any order (open or closed)Uses VIVO ‘data’

TW-SPARQL Application: Dynamic, Stylized Menu Generation (using Drupal host)Menus based on parameterization of pageSee “Recent Findings" and "Projects" belowNote also expanded view “>”

State to date…

• Knowledge network – implements both the collaboration and the integration, reporting implements the transparency– It’s being USED

• Many means of population– User generation– Machine generation

• Contributing these enhancements back to open-source communities (CKAN, VIVO)

Thus… progress…

• Integrative – semantics• Transparent – semantics• Collaborative – semantics• Application integration

– Yep – semantics

• So… smart data in motion

Data Science Team

+ Anusha, Jun, Mengyu, Chengcong, Harsha, Dan, …

Thank you

• pfox@cs.rpi.edu and the DCO Data Science Team

• @taswegian #twcrpi

• http://tw.rpi.edu

• http://tw.rpi.edu/web/project/DCO-DS