PA51D:
An Interoperability Challenge for the Geosciences I


Session ID#: 8417

Session Description:
Data and information interoperability is needed for addressing global grand challenges such as climate change that require synthesis of data from many geosciences disciplines. Interoperability solutions, addressed in GEOSS, NSF EarthCube and elsewhere, include federation, rigid standards and/or brokering/mediation. For recent implementations, advances in cloud technologies and software are key enabling capabilities, moving from a Client-Server to a Cloud-Brokering-Server archetype, that are addressing the technical challenges. The next generation of issues will be creating a structure for operational sustainability. While operations may not be a traditional concern of an individual geoscientist, the willingness to learn about and use an information service is directly related to information system sustainability. The Research Data Alliance has a Broker Governance working group which is addressing sustainability in three areas: models for sustainability, agreements required for implementation and use cases to test various options. This session will invite presentations addressing long-term sustainability of interoperability solutions.
Primary Convener:  Jay Pearlman, FourBridges, Port Angeles, WA, United States
Conveners:  Stefano Nativi, CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Prato, Italy and Siri Jodha S Khalsa, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Jay Pearlman, IEEE, Seattle, WA, United States and Siri Jodha S Khalsa, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mattia Santoro, CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Prato, Italy

Cross-Listed:
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1936 Interoperability [INFORMATICS]
6610 Funding [PUBLIC ISSUES]
6699 General or miscellaneous [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Data Access, Interoperability and Sustainability: Key Challenges for the Evolution of Science Capabilities (Invited) (63939)
Amy L Walton, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
Staying in the Light: Evaluating Sustainability Models for Brokering Software (Invited) (70415)
Lindsay A Powers, US Geological Survey, National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program, Denver, CO, United States, Karl K Benedict, University of New Mexico Main Campus, University Libraries, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Mairi Best, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Sue Fyfe, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia, Clifford A Jacobs, Consultant, Washington, DC, United States, William K Michener, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Jay Pearlman, IEEE, Seattle, WA, United States, Andrew M Turner, ESRI, Redlands, CA, United States, Stefano Nativi, CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Prato, Italy and RDA Brokering Business Models Team
Practical Software Sustainability Models for Geoscience Communities and Beyond (80602)
Lisa Kempler, MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, United States
Sustainability of Open-Source Software Organizations as Underpinning for Sustainable Interoperability on Large Scales (85290)
David W Fulker, OPeNDAP, Inc., Butte, MT, United States and James H R Gallagher, OPeNDAP, Inc., Butte, United States
The Path to Convergence: Design, Coordination and Social Issues in the Implementation of a Middleware Data Broker. (83558)
Stephen Slota, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Siri Jodha S Khalsa, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Building a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and Its Interoperability Challenges (Invited) (76854)
Barbara Jane Ryan, GEO Group on Earth Observations (former), Bonita Springs, FL, United States
The Research Data Alliance (Invited) (60083)
Kathleen S Fontaine, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States
A Pragmatic Approach to Sustainable Interoperability for the Web 2.0 World (85472)
Satish Sankaran and Dawn J Wright, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, United States

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