IN44A:
Challenges and Benefits of Open-Source Software and Open Data II

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Session ID#: 33628

Session Description:
Scientists rely on a broad range of software tools and services to conduct their research such as GIS, data hosting and discovery platforms, data processing packages, and modelling suites. The continued development of these tools is essential to improving our understanding of critical geoscience questions. Open source software and open data foster reusing and adopting existing scientific results. Due to the increasing needs for data analysis and infrastructure, earth and space sciences benefits from adopting these practices. In addition, open source software enhances capabilities of researchers, science teams, and new users and allows them to build more capable, reliable, reusable and long-lasting software. Reusing open source software and data can be synergistic and beneficial for research collaborations, as well as challenging to govern. This session discusses ways to address the challenges and benefits of open science, as well as cutting-edge tools and services that support the needs of the community.
Primary Convener:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia
Conveners:  Anthony M Castronova, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel Garijo, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Bert Jagers, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands
Chairs:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia and Anthony M Castronova, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Daniel Garijo, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1976 Software tools and services [INFORMATICS]
1978 Software re-use [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Generic Mapping Tools 6: Classic versus Modern Mode (233558)
Paul Wessel, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Earth Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States, Leonardo Uieda, University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States, Joaquim Manuel Freire Luis, Univ Algarve, Faro, Portugal, Remko Scharroo, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, Walter H F Smith, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Florian Wobbe, Sea & Sun Technology GmbH, Trappenkamp, Germany
EarthCollab, building geoscience-centric implementations of the VIVO semantic software suite (226213)
M. Benjamin Gross1, Matthew S. Mayernik2, Linda R Rowan3, Michael D Daniels4, Dean B. Krafft5, Huda J. Kahn5, John Allison2, C. Brooks Snyder2, Erica Mehan Johns5 and Don Stott2, (1)UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth Observing Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Openly Published Environmental Sensing (OPEnS) | Advancing Open-Source Research, Instrumentation, and Dissemination (222971)
Chet Udell and John Steven Selker, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
ForM@Ter: a French Solid Earth Research Infrastructure Project (231549)
Mioara Mandea, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, Michel Diament, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France, Olivier Jamet, IGN Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière, LAREG, Paris Cedex 13, France and Emilie Deschamps-Ostanciaux, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
ODM2 Admin Pilot Project- a Data Management Application for Observations of the Critical Zone. (232163)
Miguel Leon, University of Pennsylvania, Earth & Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States, William H McDowell, University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, United States, Emilio Mayorga, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Landung Setiawan, University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Richard P Hooper, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States
Sharing Lessons-Learned on Effective Open Data, Open-Source Practices from OpenAQ, a Global Open Air Quality Community. (289279)
Christa A Hasenkopf, OpenAQ, Washington, DC, United States and OpenAQ Community

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