2018 ESIP Winter Meeting

Computing skills are near and dear to the ESIP mission. The Education Committee is exploring how best to provide educator opportunities to learn Earth Science-relevant computer skills. The possibilities range from building story maps to basic coding to simple smartphone apps. These skills can help educators encourage their students to be creators of the technology around us rather than just consumers. In this session we will hear from current educators, discuss options for different computing curricula, identify the best fit for ESIP Education, and plan the workshop session for the 2018 ESIP Summer Meeting.

Presenters:

Becky Reid: Block-coding language (Scratch)

Debra Graf:  Collecting Data that Matters - Physical Computing

LuAnn Dahlman: ESRI Story Maps

Introduction to the ESIP Lab followed by Tom Narock and Doug Fils presenting their funded Community PROV Challenge Fast Track work. After Tom and Doug present their results, they will  open the session to discuss next steps to improve provenance across agencies. 


Annie Burgess slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-xHDgA42Mt_BFR0jt-RiyUTLkLsyja5f3Md47vXVt1w/edit?usp=sharing

Data collections can face a variety of risk factors. This session will include presentations and discussion on an activity within the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee to to analyze and categorize risk factors that data collections may face. The goal of this activity is to inform and enable a) individuals and organizations who manage data collections, and b) individuals and organizations who are wanting to help to reduce the risks associated with data preservation and stewardship.

After a very successful summer meeting session there is now a Software and Services Citations Cluster. This winter meeting will be our kick off meeting. We will discuss what is developing in Force11, DataCite and NASA’s ESDSWG for software citations and services. With this information we will generate a rough work plan for the upcoming year.

EarthArXiv is an Earth science preprint system, which is being supported by ESIP and the Center for Open Science. A preprint is the publication of research prior to peer review, along with associated data and software, and has been shown to make science more efficient. EarthArXiv has received over 100 submissions in just two weeks of operations. While an immediate benefit to Earth science research, this uptake also brings to the forefront issues in data citation and open access publishing along with a need for semantics. This working session aims to bring together a broad cross-section of ESIP interested in these topics. The background and goals of EarthArXiv will be presented along with emerging open challenges. We will discuss how EarthArXiv can serve as an application area for existing work within ESIP. We will also look to form new collaborations to address other emerging use cases.

NSF has funded a multi-year project to help "incubator" projects providing services and information to research scientists into sustainable projects called "Science Gateways". Education about how that can be done is being provided by the Science Gateway Community Institute (SGCI) via Science "BootCamps." This session will provide an overview of the work of the SCGI generally and the approach taken in the Science Bootcamps, but the intention is to discuss experiences that people have had (or are having) with the process of moving from incubator to production using a number of incubator projects as case studies including the ESIP Data Management Training (DMT) Clearinghouse, projects coming through ESIP's incubator Lab (formerly known as the ESIP Products and Services Testbed), DataONE, and others.

We all know that ESIP is at the forefront of making Earth science data matter. But, ESIP can be (and often is) a leader in other ways, including how we do science and how we support those who do science.
Unfortunately, science has not always been a supportive, accepting environment. More and more bad behaviour is being brought to light. How can we get ahead of this bad behaviour, and more importantly, exemplify fair and equitable behaviour? Further, how do we inspire inclusiveness, growth, synergy and positive change?
ESIP is a harassment-free zone, and ESIP’s Code of Conduct (1) is a great start. SESSION GOAL: By exploring and welcoming other experiences, resources, and ideas, ESIP can be a model of a new place where these previously accepted behaviours become anathema.


(1) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nlAeEKF9Q-mGmdb3CYMkOiCn4c4w2WXaLNB21NWW8ww/edit


Tentative agenda:

• Quick review of ESIP Code of Conduct
• Overview of exisiting practical guidelines
• Other experiences, resources, and ideas
• What's next?