EarthCube: A Community-driven Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences – A Progress Report


Session ID#: 36218

Session Description:
The National Science Foundation’s EarthCube program is a community-driven activity aimed at transforming the conduct of geosciences research and education by creating a well-connected cyberinfrastructure for sharing and integrating data and knowledge across all geoscience disciplines in an open, transparent, and inclusive manner and to accelerate our ability to understand and predict the Earth system. After five years of community engagement, governance, and development activities, EarthCube is now transitioning into an implementation phase. In the first phase of implementing the EarthCube architecture, the project leadership has identified the following architectural components as the top three priorities, focused on technologies, interfaces and interoperability elements that will address: a) Resource Discovery; b) Resource Registry; and c) Resource Distribution and Access.

 

EarthCube is exploring partnerships to leverage synergies with other e-infrastructure programs and projects in Europe, Australia, and other regions and discuss potential partnerships and mutually beneficial collaborations to increase interoperability of systems for advancing EarthCube’s goals in an efficient and effective manner.

We will present the progress of EarthCube and engage geoscientists and data scientists in the future steps toward the development of EarthCube. The meeting will provide an opportunity for the geoscience community to provide input on the EarthCube project.

Primary Contact:  Mohan K Ramamurthy, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Unidata, Boulder, CO, United States
Presenter:  Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, UNITED STATES
Cross-Topics:
  • OD - Ocean Data Management
 

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