James F. BowringComputer Science DepartmentCollege of Charleston

EarthCube End-User Domain Workshop for Rock Deformation & Mineral PhysicsAlexandria VA, 13 November 2013

Automating Workflow from Raw Data to Repository:

Collaborative Software Engineering

Roadmap

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Background

EarthCube

EARTHTIME as Mainstream Science

Software Chasm

CIRDLES as Mainstream Solution Provider

Thoughts

Questions

Background

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College of Charleston: Teaching / Research

Software Design / Engineering / Testing

EarthCube: Governance & Software

EARTHTIME: Collaborator

CIRDLES: PI

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EarthCube

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Atmo-spheric

Chemistry

Climate & Large Scale

Dynamics

Paleo-Climate

Meteor-ology

Aeronomy

Space Weather

Magneto-spheric Physics

Solar Terrestria

l

Igneous Petrology & Volcan-

ology

Structure &

Tectonics

Geo Ed & Workforc

e Training

Geodesy

NCAR

Geophysics &

Geody-namics

Geobiology &

Paleoen-tology

Cryosphere & Ice

Dynamics

Critical Zone &

Soil Science

Chemical Ocean-

ography

Geomor-phology

Hydrology

Sediment-ology &

Strati-graphy

Marine Geophysi

cs

Physical Ocean-

ography

Marine Geology

Biological

Ocean-ography

Ocean Educatio

n

Ocean Drilling & Engineer-

ingSoftware

& Modeling

Bio-informati

cs

Ecosystems

Biology

High PerfComputi

ng

Semantics &

Ontologies

Algorithms & Data

Mining

EarthCube CI

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Solid and Aqueous Geochem

-istry

Requires:

robust software for data reduction, analysis, and archiving to support both science and education

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Goal:

calibrate earth history and develop the geochronological techniques necessary to produce high precision dates

EARTHTIME Software Requirements

open-source applications for full real-time interactive data reduction and uncertainty propagation

provide extensible plug-n-play models

provide graphical and statistical tools

produce publication-ready artifacts

automatically capture meta-data

produce a standardized & extensible record for transport to / from archival databases

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Software Chasm

Kelly: domain-independent software engineering solutions serve to isolate the scientific-computing community [IEEE Software 2007]

Wilson: treat scientific software with scientific rigor [American Scientist 2006]

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CIRDLES

Cyber Infrastructure Research and Development Lab for the Earth Sciences

CIRDLES.org

Collaborative domain-specific software engineering research to produce tools that advance science

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Collaborative Development Process

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Long Tail Solution

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Archive with a Click !

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Thoughts:Automating Workflow

from Raw Data to Repository

EarthCube must serve scientists and science

Collaborative Software / CI Engineering

Long-term support for software products

Less tedium, more science

Semantic Web Open World Assumption

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Questions ?

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