Observations Data Model 2.0

Jeff Horsburgh, USU. Project PI.Anthony K. Aufdenkampe, Stroud Water Research Center

Kerstin Lehnert, IEDA/ColumbiaEmilio Mayorga, UW-APLIlya Zaslavsky, SDSCDavid Valentine, SDSCDavid Tarboton, USUDavid Lubinski, UC-Boulder

A community information model for interoperability among

feature-based earth observations

Critical Zone Science

Atmosphere

Biosphere

Hydrosphere

Lithosphere

Earth's permeable near-surface layer from the tops of the trees to the bottom of actively cycling groundwater.

• Where rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms interact and shape the Earth's surface.

• Critical to sustaining the earth’s sustaining services• Clean water• Productive soil• Balanced atmosphere

Hillslope Catchment Watershed

Minutes

Decades

Millenia

Eons

CZO Disciplines

• Biogeochemistry• Biology/Ecology• Biology/Molecular• Climatology/

Meteorology• Data

Management/CyberInfrastructure

• Engineering/Method Development

• Geochemistry/Mineralogy

• Geology/Chronology

• Geomorphology• Geophysics• GIS/Remote Sensing• Hydrology• Modeling/

Computational Science• Outreach/

Education Research• Soil Science/Pedology• Water Chemistry

CZO DisciplinesBig Data Long Tail Data

Biogeochemistry

Biology/Ecology

Biology/Molecular

Climatology/Meteorology

Data Management/CyberInfrastructureEngineering/Method Development

Geochemistry/Mineralogy

Geology/Chronology

Geomorphology

Geophysics

GIS/Remote Sensing

Hydrology

Modeling/Computational Science

Outreach/Education Research

Soil Science/Pedology

Water Chemistry

CZO DisciplinesBig Data Long Tail Data

Sample-based

Sensor-based

Geospatial Grids & Vectors

Categorical

ObservationsCore

SensorExtension

Domain Cyberinfrastructures

CUAHSIHIS

EarthChem CZOData IOOS

FeatureModel

Equipment & LabExtensions

GenericExtension

Common Semantics for Earth Observations

ODM2: Common to Most Data Types

Catalog

Data Server Clients

MetadataCatalog

Data Storage

Met

adat

a Har

vest

ing

Data Discovery

Data Delivery

MetadataTransfer

MetadataTransfer

DataTransfer

DatabaseEncoding

XML SchemaEncoding

Legend

Data and Metadata Transfer

Information Model

ODM2: Common to All Components

ODM2: Additional Goals

• Driven by Community & Use Cases: • 3 workshops + ~12 data models + much feedback• use cases: CZOData, Little Bear River, PetDB, IOOS

• Balance between general vs. understandable• External unique identifiers, vocabularies &

taxonomies• Rich Specimen, Site & other Sampling Features• Granular Methods, Data Quality & Equipment• Dataset publishing & archiving via:

• Result “packages”, Versions, Citations, Provenance

• Strong Annotations & general extensibility

ODM2Core

ODM2Core

ODM2SamplingFeatures

ODM2Results

ODM2ExternalIdentifiers

ODM2Provenance

ODM2Annotations

ODM2Equipment

ODM2DataQuality

ODM2LabAnalyses

ODM2Sensors

NSF Scientific Software Integration

BiG CZ SSI project (2014-2015): The community-driven BiG CZ software system for integration and analysis of bio- and geoscience data in the critical zone

• Community Engagement in Software Design through co-design, training & testing workshops.

• BiG CZ Portal web application for high-performance map-based discovery, visualization, access & publication of data on critical zone structure & function

• BiG CZ Toolbox to enable cyber-savvy CZ scientists & data managers to manage and publish the data they produce through a single scientist-focused toolkit

• BiG CZ Central software stack to bridge data systems developed for multiple critical zone domains

Thank You

Funded by the National Science Foundation

EAR 1224638EAR 1332257ACI 1339834

ODM2 is on GitHUB: https://github.com/UCHIC/ODM2

ODM2: Object-Relation Map

What can we do with ODM2?(that we couldn’t do before)

• Add multiple comments/annotations to any entity

• Represent Actions and sequences of Actions that lead to observation Results

• More granularly represent people and organizations

• Store information about Actions that do not have Results

What can we do with ODM2?(that we couldn’t do before)

• Separate Results from ResultValues – enables multiple ResultTypes

• Move DataValues out of the Core – better facilitates cataloging

• Add taxonomic classifiers to Results, adding an additional dimension to observations

• Create relationships among Results and store provenance

• Group Results into Datasets

What can we do with ODM2?(that we couldn’t do before)

• Store information about the equipment used to create observations

• Add extension properties to any record in any entity

• Link many entities to external identifier systems

• Support SamplingFeatures of multiple types - Sites and Specimens, among others

• Not limited to a single spatial offset• Not Limited to a single qualifier

Observation Data Model 2.0

• NSF funded project: PI. Jeff Horsburgh• “Developing a Community Information Model and

Supporting Software to Extend Interoperability of Sensor and Sample Based Earth Observations”

• To achieve interoperability between IEDA, EarthCHEM, CUAHSI HIS, and other data systems

• Better support for samples and unique identifiers (IGSN/SESAR)

• Extensibility to table attributes• Better annotation and provenance• Enable integrated web service based publication of a

broader class of CZO data

Information Model(All)

StorageEncoding

(USU/LDEO)

CatalogEncoding(SDSC)

Web Service Interface

(UW)

Archival Encoding

(USU)

XML Schema Encoding(SDSC)

ODM2 Functional Use Cases

Future Directions for CZO Science

• Develop a unifying theoretical framework of CZ evolution;

• Develop coupled systems models to explore how CZ services respond to anthropogenic, climatic, and tectonic forcings;

• Develop four dimensional data sets that• document differing CZ geologic and climatic settings,• inform our theoretical framework, • constrain our conceptual and coupled systems models, • test model-generated hypotheses.

Report prepared by CZO community, Dec. 2010

EarthCube Critical Zone Domain Workshop

Engaging the Critical Zone community to bridge long tail science with big data

Organizing Committee:

Kerstin Lehnert, IEDA/Columbia.Ilya Zaslavsky, SDSC.David Tarboton, USUJeff Horsburgh, USU.Emilio Mayorga, UW-APL

James Syvitski, CSDMS.Susan Brantley, PSU & SH-CZO.Susan Gill, SWRC.

Convened by A.K. Aufdenkampe, C.J. Duffy, G.E. TuckerUniv. of Delaware: Jan. 21-23, 2013

103 Participants from 16 Disciplines

• Biogeochemistry (30)• Biology/Ecology (15)• Biology/Molecular (3)• Climatology/

Meteorology (15)• Data

Management/CyberInfrastructure (46)

• Engineering/Method Development (8)

• Geochemistry/Mineralogy (13)

• Geology/Chronology (14)

• Geomorphology (15)• Geophysics (8)• GIS/Remote Sensing (31)• Hydrology (46)• Modeling/

Computational Science (36)• Outreach/

Education Research (7)• Soil Science/Pedology (16)• Water Chemistry (14)

Early-Career (28)