IN32A:
Facilitating Interdisciplinary Geosciences by Limiting Data Friction: Approaches and Outcomes II

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Session ID#: 34989

Session Description:
Interdisciplinary geoscientific research is increasingly tasked to answer critical questions within and across Earth systems science. While research activities within a discipline follow well established data norms and often rely on a single, well understood data repository or network, interdisciplinary researchers face challenges in discovering data, tackling issues of data friction within workflows, and challenges in depositing derived data in appropriate repositories.


To move interdisciplinary geosciences forward, we must examine the ways in which research that crosses disciplines encounters data friction, and the ways that efforts to resolve this data friction have resulted in novel research results. The session seeks examples of standards development, utilization or best practices that have been spurred by interdisciplinary collaboration, and examples of data science platforms that facilitate discovery, interpretation, and re-use of data across disciplines. This session will showcase interoperability solutions, invite use cases and lessons learned, and identify unmet needs.

Primary Convener:  Simon J Goring, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Center for Climatic Research, & Data Science Institute, Madison, United States
Conveners:  Stephen M Richard, Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, United States, Karen I Stocks, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Ilya Zaslavsky, San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, United States
Chairs:  Simon J Goring, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Center for Climatic Research, & Data Science Institute, Madison, United States and Stephen M Richard, Columbia University of New York,, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Simon J Goring, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Center for Climatic Research, & Data Science Institute, Madison, United States
Index Terms:

1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1982 Standards [INFORMATICS]
1998 Workflow [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Data Friction Meets Social Friction: Challenges for standardization in emerging fields of geoscience (Invited) (297747)
Peter Thomas Darch, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, School of Information Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
LinkedEarth and 21st century paleoclimatology: reducing data friction through standard development (Invited) (212196)
Deborah Khider1, Julien Emile-Geay2, Nicholas McKay3, Daniel Garijo4, Varun Ratnakar4, Yolanda Gil4 and Feng Zhu5, (1)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Univ. of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (3)Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (4)University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Exposing the Strategies that can Reduce the Obstacles: Improving the Science User Experience (253107)
Francis E Lindsay1, Jennifer Brennan2, Jeanne Behnke3 and Christopher Lynnes2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, ESDIS, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Data Type Registry – Cross Road Between Catalogs, Data And Semantics (293026)
Stephen M Richard, Columbia University of New York,, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Ilya Zaslavsky, San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, United States and Sky Bristol, USGS Core Science Systems, Denver, United States
Building connected data standards to promote interdisciplinary research in the paleogeosciences- PalEON, Neotoma, THROUGHPUT (294747)
Simon J Goring, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Center for Climatic Research, & Data Science Institute, Madison, United States, Stephen M Richard, U.S. Geoscience Information Network, Tucson, AZ, United States, John W Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography & Center for Climatic Research, Madison, United States, Andria Dawson, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada and Neotoma Paleoecological Database Team
Smoothing Data Friction through building Service Oriented Data Platforms (294933)
Lesley A Wyborn, Clare Josephine Richards, Benjamin James Kingston Evans, Jingbo Wang and Kelsey A Druken, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Towards seamless workflows in agile data science (250533)
Jess Robertson, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Manufacturing National Research Flagship, Perth, WA, Australia and Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia

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