Technology and Architecture Committee

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The Technology and Architecture Standing Committee is tasked with facilitating the development of the EarthCube technology, including stewardship of the ongoing architecture. The Technology and Architecture Standing Committee occasionally coordinates with the Science Standing Committee to ensure that scientific research needs for technology drive the development of the EarthCube architecture.

Meetings

The TAC hosts regular 1 hr long telecons monthly on the first Thursday at 1:30 pm PT/ 4:30 pm ET. All are welcome to join. Call-in information and the full schedule are available on the Calendar. Notes from past meetings are available in the TAC Google folders.

Leadership

Co-Chair/Leadership Council Representative: Rebecca Koskela, DataONE (November 2016 - May 2020)
Co-Chair: Ruth Duerr, Ronin Institute (January 2018 - December 2019)

Current Activities

CoreTrustSeal Certification -- Cohort of Data Repositories

Second Webinar: Monday, November 26, 2018

Speakers: Ingrid Dillo, Deputy Director of DANS (slides)

Helen Glaves, Senior Data Scientist, British Geological Survey (slides)

Click here for the recording.

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First webinar: Tuesday, Oct 30, 2018

Click HERE for the Recording with Rorie Edmunds (Program Director for World Data System International Program Office) and John Faundeen (USGS

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A cohort of data repositories is being assembled to apply for CoreTrustSeal certification as part of the American Geophysical Union Coalition Enabling FAIR Data Project. CoreTrustSeal certification demonstrates to a repository’s users and funders that they have been evaluated by an independent authority and endorsed for their trustworthiness.

We are planning a series of webinars to provide more information on CoreTrustSeal and the certification process, the first of which will be Tuesday October 30. The webinars will be recorded and made available for those unable to attend. The plan is to have at least 2 webinars - one in October with Rorie Edmunds (Program Director for World Data System International Program Office) and John Faundeen (USGS) and then a second one with people who have been through the process.

If you are interested in becoming a member of this cohort, please send an email to Rebecca Koskela (rkoskela@unm.edu).

Please pass this on to anyone you think would be interested in joining the cohort.

Recent Documents

2017

Architecture Refinement Workshop, held in Boulder, CO on July 10-12, 2017. Final Report

Use Case Working Group Reports / Summary (Spring 2017)

TAC Review of Architecture Implementation Plan. (Feb 2017) The LC review of Architecture Implementation Plan. (March 2017)

2016

Architecture Implementation Plan (AIP) Documents (Xentity) (November 2016)

David Arctur and colleagues have provided a series of documents as a starting point (EarthCube AIP References).

Architecture Workshop : Final Report and References (May 2016)

Testbed Working Group Draft Design and Recommendations for a Testbed Environment (May 2016)

Work Plan for Implementing an EarthCube Standards Process (April 2016)

EarthCube Architecture WG Final Report (April 2016)

EarthCube Gap Analysis Working Group Final Report (Jan 2016)

2015

A CRISP Approach for EarthCube: Collaborative Resource Incubators (CRI) for a Sci-Tech Portfolio (Dec 2015)

Report of the EarthCube Standards Working Group (Oct 2015)

TAC Progress Report, presented to Leadership Council (Sept. 2015)
DRAFT Process for Developing EarthCube Reference Architecture (Sept. 2015)

Recent Presentations

2019

Doug Walker, update on Strabspot video

Bonnie Hurwitz, Update on Planet Microbe video

2018

Kwo-Sen Kuo, Hongfeng Yu, Update on Optimal Data Layout for Scalable Geophysical Analysis in a Data-intensive Environment, ABSTRACT slides video

Shantenu Jha, Matteo Turilli (Rutgers), Ensemble tool kit, video

Chad Trabant (IRIS), Deploying Multi-Facility Cyberinfrastructure in Commercial and Private Cloud-based Systems, video

Ilya Zaslavsky Data Discovery Hub (Data Discovery Studio), video

Doug Walker, Development of an Integrated Data System for the Geological Field Sciences, Strabospot video

Brian Mapes - Drilsdown iPython_IDV video

Danie Kinkade, Adam Shepherd, Ocean Protein Portal video

Eric Lingerfelt, Presentation and input on the interoperability using Schema.org and P418 video

Mark Bushnell, National Coordinator, US IOOS/QARTOD - Presentation on Ocean Best Practices (may 3) slides video
Ruth Duerr - Presentation on crawling (may 3) audio

Steve Richard/Kerstin Lehnert: progress on Data Submission Hub project for the EarthCube Alliance Testbed Project (feb 8) slides video

Steve Richard and Resource registry WG - report back from F2F (April 5) slides video

2017

2017 Funded Projects

Joe Hamman, Pangeo   slides   video
Simon Goring, THROUGHPUT slides   video
Bonnie Hurwitz & Elisha Wood-Charlson, Planet Microbe   slides   video
Sasha Kosovichev, Intelligent databases and Analysis tools for Geospace data   slides   video
Julie Newman, A unified experimental-natural digital data system for analysis of rock microstructures   slides   video
Heather Lynch and Shantenu Jha, ICEBERG   slides   video    web

Liping Di, CyberWay slides video
Dan Fuka and Dave Fulker, BALTO slides video

Cindy Bruyere, Asset slides video

Brad Singer, Geochronology Frontier at the Laboratory-cyberinformatics Interface slides video

TBA, Connecting the Earth Science and Cyberinfrastructure communities to advance the analysis of high resolution topography data

Doug Fils - Update on CDF registry August 10, 2017 Slides video

Virtual Research Networks (Summer 2017)
Jonathon Ross (Geoscience Australia, Data Cube) video
Stefano Nativi (National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IIA))   video
Michael Diepenbroeck (Pangea)    video   slides
John Towns (XSEDE) slides   video    best known practices and lessons learned
Keith Jeffery (EPOS) slides   video
Ivan Rodero (OOI) slides   video
Eric Lyons (CyVerse) slides, Video
Ben Evans (NCI ANU Australia) slides, Video
Matt Jones (DataONE) slides, Video

Use Case Working Group Presentation- Karen Stocks (Spring 2017)

Video clips featuring Earthcube tools, recorded during a SCI-TECH Match up Series (Spring 2017)

2016

Funded Project presentations:
Ensemble Toolkit for Earth Sciences. The Power of Many Shantenu Jha (Rutgers University)
Polar Data Insights and Search Analytics for the Deep and Scientific Web   Chris Mattmann
Deploying Multi-Facility Cyberinfrastructure in Commercial and Private Cloud-based Systems (GeoSciCloud). Tim Ahern (IRIS)
Collaborative Research: Engaging the Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean (GRISO) Science Network   David Sutherland (University of Oregon)
That dot is a world! Drilling down from a statistics scatterplot to pre-populated case Notebooks   Brian Earle Mapes
GeoTrust: Improving Sharing and Reproducibility of Geoscience Applications   Tanu Malik (University of Chicago)
An Expanded Implementation of Cloud-Hosted Real-Time Data Services for the Geosciences -CHORDS, Mike Daniels (UCAR)
EarthCube Data Discovery Hub   Ilya Zaslavsky (San Diego SuperComputer Center)
Intelligent Systems Research to Support Geosciences-IS-GEO Suzanne A Pierce (University of Texas)
Development of an Integrated Data System for the Geological Field Sciences Doug Walker (University of Kansas)
Laying the Groundwork for an Ocean Protein Portal Mak Saito (Woods Hole Ocean Institute)

Architecture Implementation Plan David Arctur (Fall 2016)

Semantics Presentation (6/15/16)

2015

Connecting EarthCube Projects to the Data Facilities: Yolanda Gil, Chris MacDermaid
TAC Overview Presentation at the EarthCube 2015 All Hands Meeting: Yolanda Gil and Jay Pearlman
30 November 2015 TAC Overview Presentation to the Science Committee: Yolanda Gil

TAC Working Groups

The work of the TAC is carried out by members of various working groups listed here. TAC Working Groups are focusing on Architecture, Testbeds, Gap Analysis, Standards and Standards Bodies, Technologies, and Use Cases (to guide cyberinfrastructure requirements). Final Working Group reports (when completed) are available from the TAC working groups page.

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