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CHRONOS Cinzia Cervato, Doug Fils, Geoff Bohling, Pat Diver, Doug Greer, Brice Lambi, Josh Reed, and Xiaoyun Tang Geoinformatics 2006, May 12, 2006
CHRONOS
Cinzia Cervato, Doug Fils, Geoff Bohling, Pat Diver, Doug Greer, Brice Lambi, Josh Reed, and Xiaoyun Tang
Geoinformatics 2006, May 12, 2006
• Transforming Earth history research by seamlessly integrating geoscience databases and tools
• Three main initiatives: – cyberinfrastructure – community building– education
www.chronos.org
Cyberinfrastructure Community Building Education
CHRONOS’s purpose
CHRONOS: It’s about time!
• Time is the intellectual theme• A team of geoscientists and IT
specialists creating a cyberinfrastructure to deliver open access to a global federation of Earth history databases, tools, and services
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Cyberinfrastructure Community Building Education
CHRONOS’s stakeholders
• Academic, government, and industrial scientists
• Autonomous databases, affiliated science initiatives, and data and tool contributors
• Educators, students, and policy makers
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• Conceive, build, and support the robust system of integrated databases, tools, visualization, and services– Integration of heterogeneous databases– Database development– Tool development– Service development
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Cyberinfrastructure activities
Hosted and federated databases
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Neptune
IBM’s Information Integrator for database federation
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Multiproxy
Aggregated results for taxonomy
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GIS Client
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Database development
• HERMES for geochemical data• Taxonomic dictionaries
(foraminifera, graptolites, corals)
• 2,380,000 samples accessible through CHRONOS portal (as of May 8)
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Initial Toolkit
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ADP TIS
CONOP9
PSICAT
Time Scale Creator
PSICAT: core/section logging and data capture in one
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CONOP9 as webservice
Build and involve the community
• Foster the growth of the CHRONOS community by actively promoting the open participation of diverse groups of users, data providers, and other geoinformatics efforts
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Community activities
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• Build Awareness of CHRONOS (Industry, Conferences, Universities, K-12)
• Recruit Federated Databases• Promote Communication among Geoscience
Researchers• Grow the User Base• Collaborate with Parallel Efforts• Coordinate Project Activities
Partner science initiatives
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• ANDRILL www.andrill.org• EARTHTIME www.earth-time.org• GeoSystems www.geosystems.org
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• The newest geological drilling program for recovery of statigraphic records from the Antarctic region
• Investigate Antarctica's role in global environmental change over the past 65 million years
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• GEON, CoreWall, PaleoBiology Database, Janus/ODP, SESAR, PaleoStrat, NMITA, etc.
• Open protocols and standards supporting the evolution from (service-oriented) architecture to (service-oriented) infrastructure for a global geoscience cyberinfrastructure
National geoinfo alliances
International partnerships
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• International Commission Stratigraphy, CSIRO, Geoscience Australia, Natural History Museum London, New Zealand IGNS, IODP, Geol. Survey Canada, Pangaea, Snet and others
• www.igeoinfo.org
CHRONOS as global service-enabler
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CSIROXML schema
ICSData
CHRONOS
Service
Janus/ODPData
CorewallVisualization
CHRONOS
Service
Give access to educational activities
• Create an excitement for Earth history and geologic time through the implementation of human-computer interactions
• Activities:– Develop educational activities for different groups
(Grades 5-12, undergraduates, informal)– Increase diversity– Collaborate with education groups and museums
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Summer 2006 E&O activities
• Summer internship program for advanced undergraduate and graduate students (June-July)
• Workshop to develop a package of on-line teaching activities using CHRONOS data and tools (June 13-15, ISU and Carleton College)
• Annual retreat (August 18-19, Des Moines)
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