TERN Facility Portals - Stuart Phinn

Sustaining Long Term Ecosystem Research and Infrastructure

2011 TERN Symposium - Day 2

Session 1

• TERN Facility portals

– Presentation of portals for AusCover, Ozflux, Supersites, ACEAS, Eco-informatics, Coasts

• Morning tea

• Discussion session

Workshop• Transformational change of regional landscapes: navigating planetary limits

and resource constraints over the next five decades (Meyer: SA)

Working Groups• Determining precise estimates of modern biodiversity extinction rates

(Bradshaw: SA)• A cup half full? Thresholds and regime shifts in Australian freshwater

ecosystems (Capon: QLD)• Pyrogeography: Integrating and evaluating existing models of Australian fire

regimes to predict climate change impacts (Murphy: TAS).• Improving long-term predictions of carbon and nutrient dynamics in Australia's

agroecosystems: assimilation of datasets from long-term research sites for verification of biophysical models of vegetation and soil changes (Henry: QLD)

• Extinction risks of frogs under climate change (Keith: NSW)

2010 Round 2 funding

Workshop• Transformational change of regional landscapes: navigating planetary limits

and resource constraints over the next five decades (Meyer: SA)

Working Groups• Determining precise estimates of modern biodiversity extinction rates

(Bradshaw: SA)• A cup half full? Thresholds and regime shifts in Australian freshwater

ecosystems (Capon: QLD)• Pyrogeography: Integrating and evaluating existing models of Australian fire

regimes to predict climate change impacts (Murphy: TAS).• Improving long-term predictions of carbon and nutrient dynamics in Australia's

agroecosystems: assimilation of datasets from long-term research sites for verification of biophysical models of vegetation and soil changes (Henry: QLD)

• Extinction risks of frogs under climate change (Keith: NSW)

2010 Round 2 funding

Next round opens May 16th. Notification on ACEAS web site

www.aceas.org.au

TERN Portals:

(1) TERN’s context within the research data environment

(2)The vision for the TERN portal(s)

2011 TERN Symposium


• Relationship to existing data collection & distribution

• Data definition(s)?

• Open access data sets

• Future needs for data collection and integration

R.Woodcock, Auscope

• TERN’s relationship to environmental data: collection, storage, analysis and distribution

Data set definition(s)?

• A description of the research question(s)

• a description of the context of the field experiment

• a description of the experimental set-up

• report(s) containing raw measurement data

• description of methods and script(s) of algorithms used to process the data

• report(s) containing processed data

• report(s) containing analysis and published results (if any)

Open access (OA) data sets

• OA data is not common good. It is owned by the researchers who generated the data.

• Access to OA data is not unrestricted. Access to data is done via a gatekeeper who can restrict access to data sets depending on need and application.

• Use of OA data is not unconditional. Users of the TERN data have to abide by clearly stated and enforceable rules.

• OA data is not cost-free. TERN funds the installation and ongoing upkeep of infrastructure that is critical to the collection, storage, dissemination and re-use of the data.

TERN – Data Collection and Portal Structures

• TERN – Data Collection and Portal Structures

(2) The Vision for the TERN portal(s)

• Goals for TERN’s Portals

• Strategy for Developing TERN’s Portals

• Proposed Architecture for TERN’s Portals

• Status and Plans for TERN’s Portals

• Outline of the Portal Demonstrations and Feedback Requirements

Goals for TERN’s Portals

SCIENCE• Establish “long term” science as a priority for terrestrial ecosystem

research• Enable key ecosystem science groups to plan and organise long-term

infrastructure and support

TECHNOLOGY• Encourage the long-term sound data management practices by

including data production and citation as research performance indicators

• Set the foundations for a permanently-held and curated data archive

PEOPLE• Develop a network of “long term” research scientists• Identify and organise groups to access suitable long term funding

Strategy for Developing TERN’s Portals

• TERN is promoting an open access approach to ecosystem research data by:

SCIENCE• The development and promotion of methods and tools for increased

and improved re-use of data

TECHNOLOGY• The development and deployment of a nationwide, robust

and open cyber-infrastructure

PEOPLE• Produce a paradigm shift in the practice of sharing, uploading

and re-using research data sets

Strategies for Developing TERN’s Portals

• Building Australia’s terrestrial ecosystem data store– Leverage existing large data stores.– Fund large-scale data collection programs.

• Improve access to data for re-use– Use existing protocols to document and store data– Validate data against current standards before making

them available to the research community.

Proposed Architecture for TERN’s Portals

TERN Facility portals

SCIENCEData are peer-reviewedData stored for disciplinary research and analysis

TECHNOLOGYSpecialist metadata standardsDomain-specific tools

PEOPLELocal portal for a group of researchersThe portal is the result of a partnership

• TERN-wide portal

SCIENCEData are reviewed by expertsData stored as a resource for data synthesis and eScience

TECHNOLOGYGeneralist m’data standardsCross-disciplinary tools

PEOPLECentral gateway for the ecosystem research communityThe portal is the result of a collaboration

SoilsSoilsCoastsCoastsPlots

LTERs

Super-sites

Plots

LTERs

Super-sites

Scaling &

Models

Scaling &

Models

National Environmental Information System

National Environmental Information System

Australian National Data Services

Australian National Data Services

International LTER Network

International LTER Network

International Ecosystem and Earth Obs. NetworkInternational Ecosystem and Earth Obs. Network

International Programs

Eco informatics

Eco informatics

ACEASACEAS AusCoverAusCover OzFluxOzFlux

…

TERN Facilities

TERN PortalTERN Portal IMOS Software and meta-data

standards?

IMOS Software and meta-data

standards?

ALA, AuScope Software and meta-data

standards?

ALA, AuScope Software and meta-data

standards? …

NCRIS Programs

Software Platform TBA TBA Geonet FTP

• Proposed Architecture for TERN’s Portals

To be advised

Meta-Data Protocol TBA TBA ISO19115 netCDF TBA TBA TBA TBA


TERN Facility portals– Prototypes currently

available from four facilities

– Data collection is under way

– Deployed in close consultation with the user community


TERN Facility portals– Prototypes currently

available from four facilities

– Data collection is under way

– Deployed in close consultation with the user community

TERN Portal– Prototype will be available

in the second half of 2011

– Leverages capabilities and expertise of ANDS and Ei

– Builds an “application” layer to allow a richer interaction with the data

TERN Portals:


(2)The vision for the TERN portal(s)

2011 TERN Symposium

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