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Chris L. Greer, Program Manager, NSFFederation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
January 3-5, 2007, Portland, OR
Outline
• NSF and Cyberinfrastructure
• Characteristics of the Digital Age
• NSF Data Strategic Vision
• Role of Universities, Academic Libraries, and Professional Associations
NationalAeronautic and Space
Administration
EnvironmentalProtection
Agency
Smithsonian Institution
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Other agencies
Commerce
Science Advisor
Other boards, councils, etc.
U.S. President
Independent Agencies
Major Departments
Science AdvisorOffice of Science and
Technology Policy
Office of Management and Budget
Agriculture Health and Human Services
Interior Homeland Security
Defense Energy
NSF Act of 1950
• “To promote the progress of science…”
• Encourage & develop a national policy for the promotion of basic research and education in the math, physical, medical,biological, engineering and other sciences
• Initiate & support basic scientific research in the sciences
Research Directorates
• Biological Sciences• Computer & Info. Science & Eng.• Education & Human Resources• Engineering• Geosciences• Mathematical & Physical Sciences• Social, Behaviorial & Econ. Sciences
Offices
• CyberInfrastructure
• Integrative Activities
• Polar Programs
• International Science and Engineering
National Science Foundation Director
Deputy Director
NationalScience Board
… is the organized aggregate of technologies that enable us to
access and integrate today’s information technology resources
—data and storage, computation, communication,
visualization, networking, scientific instruments, expertise—to
facilitate science and engineering goals.
- Fran Berman, Director, SDSC
Cyberinfrastructure …
Learning &Learning &Workforce Workforce
DevelopmentDevelopment
CI Vision :4 Interrelated Perspectives
Collaboratories, Collaboratories, Observatories &Observatories &Virtual Virtual OrganizationsOrganizations
Data, Data Analysis &
Visualization
High PerformanceComputing
New Modes of InvestigationNew Modes of Investigation
The conduct of science and engineering The conduct of science and engineering is changing and evolving. This is due, in large is changing and evolving. This is due, in large part, to the expansion of networked part, to the expansion of networked cyberinfrastructure …cyberinfrastructure …
NSF Strategic Plan 2006-2011NSF Strategic Plan 2006-2011
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5thDimension
Opening a 5th dimension through cyberinfrastructure is the
revolutionary force of the digital age …
The world is flat-Thomas Friedman
•More room for innovationMore room for innovation•New spaces for learning and discoveryNew spaces for learning and discovery•Expanded opportunities for collaboration and interactionExpanded opportunities for collaboration and interaction•Greater capabilities for research and educationGreater capabilities for research and education
The flat world is expanding-Anonymous OCI program director
Opening a 5th dimension through cyberinfrastructure is the
revolutionary force of the digital age …
Individuals, groups, Individuals, groups,
organizations, and nations organizations, and nations
that don’t embrace the 5that don’t embrace the 5thth
dimension will fall behind dimension will fall behind
in the digital agein the digital age
Characteristics of a 5D World:(in priority order)
1. Time and place are no barriers to participation and interaction
2. Access is open to specialists and non-specialists alike
3. Information is the primary driver for progress
4. New capabilities, resources, and mechanisms -> new possibilities
“Sometime in the 2010s, if all goes well, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will start to bring a vision of the heavens to Earth. Suspended between its vast mirrors will be a three billion-pixel sensor array, which on a clear winter night will produce 30 terabytes of data. In less than a week this remarkable telescope will map the whole night sky …. And then the next week it will do the same again … building up a database of billions of objects and millions of billions of bytes.”
Nature 440:383
DataFed
The data from surface-based air pollution monitoring networks now provides routinely high grade, spatio-temporal and chemical patterns throughout the US for PM25 and ozone. Satellite sensors … now provide real-time snapshots which depict the pattern of haze, smoke and dust in stunning detail. The ‘terabytes’ of data from these surface and remote sensors can now be stored, processed and delivered in near real time.
Husar, R.; Poirot, R. Environmental Manager 2005, Sep.,39-41
Information Big Bang
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Source: Paul Berkman
The Fragility of Memory in a Digital Age
Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital InformationCommission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group
“In 1964, the first electronic mail message was sent from either MIT, the Carnegie Institute, or Cambridge University. The message does not survive, however, and so there is no documentary record to determine which group sent the pathbreaking message.”
NSF Draft Strategic Plan for Data, Data Analysis, and
Visualization
www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci-v7.pdf
Chapter 3
Data Strategic Planning Group
• Sylvia Spengler (Chair)
• Deborah Crawford• Cheryl Eavey• James French• Chris Greer
• Elizabeth Lyons• David Lightfoot• Fillia Makedon• Jose Munoz• Dan Newlon• Nigel Sharp
Vision:
“… a vision in which science and engineering
digital data are routinely deposited in well-
documented form, are regularly and easily
consulted and analyzed by specialists and non-
specialists alike, are openly accessible while
suitably protected, and are reliably preserved.”
ESIP Vision
• The Federation and … the Foundation for Earth Science are working to make observation information relating to a broad spectrum of Earth science issues more available and understandable to researchers, educators, policy makers and the general public.
NSF Goals:
• To catalyze the development of a system of science and engineering data collections that is open, extensible and evolvable.
• To support development of a new generation of tools and services facilitating data acquisition, mining, integration, analysis, and visualization.
Federal
State
Local
International
Non-profit
College
University
USER
Commercial
National DigitalData
Framework
User-centric, Multilevel, Nimble, Sustainable, Reliable
ESIPThe Federation of Earth Science Information
Partners is a unique consortium of more than 90 organizations [including] NASA, NOAA and USGS data centers, research universities, government research laboratories, supercomputing facilities, education resource providers, information technology innovators, nonprofit organizations and commercial enterprises.
Source: www.esipfed.org
NSF Principles:
•Data generated with NSF funding will be accessible and reliably preserved
•Research/education opportunities determine investment priorities
•Broad community engagement is necessary in reviewing and prioritizing data activities
Principles (cont’d):
•Data is only useful if it can be found, understood, and analyzed
•Legitimate privacy, confidentiality, and intellectual property rights must be protected
•International, interagency, and public-private partnerships are essential
Plan of Action
• NSF Plan of Action• Coherent Organizational Framework
– Diversity of approaches– Communities of practice– Dynamic and evolving system
• Flexible Technological Architecture
– Data analysis and visualization tools
– Layered capabilities
– Metadata , standards
• Coherent Policies– Transparent policy frameworks
– Data management plans
– Interagency, international coop/coord
Plan of Action: A. Coherent Organizational Framework
• Diversity of approaches
• Communities of practice
• Community proxy roles of collections
• Dynamic and evolving system
Plan of Action:
B. Flexible Technological Architecture
• Layered capabilities
• Metadata
• Data analysis and visualization tools
• Promoting use and stability of standards
Plan of Action:C. Coherent Data Policies
• Transparent policy frameworks
• Data management plans
• Interagency coordination
• International cooperation
Summary Strategic plan seeks to:
• Promote a change in culture
• Catalyze development of a national digital data framework
• Support new generations of tools, services, and capabilities
“If we are effectively to preserve for future generations the …. corpus of information in digital form that represents our cultural record, we need … to commit ourselves technically, legally, economically, and organizationally to the full dimensions of the task.”
Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information, 1996Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group
A Challenge for Society
The Universities
“Ever since their inception, universities have been occupied with the fundamental elements of what we now call 'knowledge management', i.e. the creation, collection, preservation and dissemination of knowledge.”
Andre Oesterlinck, Knowledge Management in
Post-Secondary Education: Universities
The Academic Libraries
“It is to the research library community that others will look for the preservation of … digital assets, as they have looked to us in the past for reliable, long-term access to the ‘traditional’ resources and products of research and scholarship.”
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)Strategic Plan 2005-2009
Domain Science
Computer Science
Cyberinfra-structure
Archival Sciences
Lib/Info Sciences
ICenter
Professional Associations
• Promote a change in culture
• Enable the development, evolution, and effective use of standards
• Catalyze new partnerships
• And ……
The voice of the community
NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery:
www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci-v7.pdf