SEEKING CONSENSUS FOR CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE GOVERNANCE IN THE USA

M. Lee Allison, Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson USA

Eva Zanzerkia, National Science Foundation, Arlington, USA

EGU General Assembly, April 30, 2014

WHY EARTHCUBE?

Nature does not recognize separate disciplines

EarthCube will democratize access to data

EarthCube will increase research time by reducing time needed to find, access, and analyze data

EarthCube will enable more interdisciplinary research and the pursuit of new questions

EarthCube will accelerate the pace of discovery

EarthCube will give all scientists the same chance of making major contributions regardless of institution size or institutional endowment

SCIENCE CHALLENGES

FROM END-USER WORKSHOPS

Full List of End-User Workshops at: http://earthcube.org/page/end-user-workshops

Roadmaps & Concept Designs (technical roadmaps and small prototype designs)

End-user Workshops & Stakeholder Alignment (identifying community needs & wants)

Test Governance Award (planning & demonstration phases)

Building Blocks, RCNs, and Conceptual Design Awards (current funded projects)

The EarthCube Journey

White Papers & Expressions of Interest (Geo & CI)

Dear Colleague Letter & Charrettes

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TECHNICAL CHALLENGES

DERIVED FROM END-USER WORKSHOPS

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES

DERIVED FROM END-USER WORKSHOPS (IF YOU REMOVE THE WORD “DATA”)

EARTHCUBE TEST ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE PROJECTAn 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?

2-year community engagement, testing, and demonstration process

Stakeholders (Assembly) – governance

ideas,

testing

Integrat

e 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 1

Demo phase Governance

charter

NSF solicitation?

DATA FACILITIESEARTHCUBE PORTFOLIOIT/FOSSEND-USER COMMUNITIES & PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Community workshops: January – March 2014

Participants: “Champions” from the Assembly Workshops

Purpose: Craft the EarthCube Demonstration Charter

Assembly Advisory Council Synthesis

Crowdsourcing

Social mediaWebsiteExhibit boothsProfessional societies

Strategic Pathway Exercises

Testing during workshopsOnline exercises

Assembly Workshops

7 stakeholder communities in 4 venues

Secretariat synthesis &

analysis

Evaluators analysis

Assembly Advisory Council

Advisory Council First Review

Crowdsourced response

Advisory CommitteeSecond Review

All-

Hands m

eeting

Charter Elements from Stakeholder

Communities

Governance Charter

V 1.0 Released

Governance Charter

Presented to All-Hands

Community

Governance Charter

Submitted to NSF

Jan-March 2014 April-June 2014 July-Sept 2014

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT (YEAR 1): CROWDSOURCING

EARTHCUBE.ORG & WORKSPACE