101 An Introduction to All Things ESIP Peter

101: An Introduction to All Things ESIP Peter Fox, ESIP President January 6, 2015

ESIP Vision To be a leader in promoting the collection, stewardship and use Of Earth science data, information and knowledge that is responsive to societal needs.

po ra te Application Developers C or ul M ia y Users Tool & System Developers ca de m nc ge Data Providers Data Archives A s-A os Cr tip Do le m Sci ai en ns c e ESIP Community

ESIP Core Values • • • Agility Collaborative Collegial Community-driven Innovative Neutral Open Participatory Voluntary

Two Organizations: ESIP Federation & Foundation for Earth Science ESIP Federation is the community and is all volunteer. Foundation for Earth Science provides management, operational and logistical services to the ESIP Federation Foundation for Earth Science Executive Director: Erin Robinson ESIP Community Manager: Open

FES Coordination for ESIP Website, Wiki, Commons In Person Meetings Telecons/We b Meetings Data Systems Clusters, Working Groups, Committees Organizational Human Facilitating Connections

President & Vice President Emily Law Peter Fox ESIP Type Reps Sara Graves Administrative Committee Bill Teng. Chairs. Bruce Caron Keiser Margaret Mooney Tyler Stevens ESIP Leadership 2014 Standing Committee Chairs Ruth Duerr Roberta Johnson Matt Austin Christine White

President & Vice President Emily Law Peter Fox ESIP Type Reps TBD Administrative Committee Bill Teng. Chairs Ken Keiser TBD Tyler Stevens ESIP Leadership 2015 Standing Committee Chairs Justin Goldstein Lu. Ann Dahlman Ethan Davis Christine White

Types & Governance • Type I: data centers (21/24) • Type III: application developers (28/62) • NASA DAACs • Commercial • NOAA (NGDC, NODC, • Nonprofit NCDC) • Type II: researchers and tool developers (46/74) • Academia • Government labs • Educational • Type IV: strategic partners (2/2) • NASA • NOAA ESIP Assembly • 1 partner, 1 vote • Annual Business Meeting at ESIP Winter Meeting • Leadership elected from Assembly representatives

Collaboration Area Structure Features ESIP Clusters • Formed by sending VP email • For any reason • Ends when the last person hangs up Clusters Least Formality • Agriculture & Climate • Cloud • Decisions • Disasters • Discovery • Documentation • Earth Science Data Analytics • Energy & Climate • Info Quality • Science Software • Semantic Web Most

Collaboration Area Structure Features: • Created by Assembly or Committee • Task-oriented • Budget* ESIP Working Groups • Data Study • Drupal • Climate Education • Visioneers Clusters Least Working Groups Formality Most

Collaboration Area Structure Standing Committees Features • Data Stewardship • Chair elected by Assembly • Education • Chair serves on • Information Technology and Interoperability • Products and Services Executive Committee • Budget* Clusters Least Administrative Committees • Constitution and Bylaws • Finance and Appropriations • Partnership Working Groups Formality Committees Most

ESIP-Speak – Alphabet Soup

Things ESIP Does • • Community-generated Best Practices (e. g. Citation) Testbed (e. g. Identifiers, Ontology) Community Conventions (e. g. Discovery) Professional Development • Technical Workshops • Non-technical Workshops (e. g. Evaluation, Communication) • Data Management Short Course/Workshops • Outreach • Education (e. g. annual teacher workshop on climate change) • Professional Societies (e. g. AGU, GSA) • International Efforts (e. g. GEO, ISRSE) • Provide Venue for Collaboration and Connections • Both virtual and in-person • Support with suite of collaboration tools • Provide mini-grants to make stuff happen

Get ESIP’ed • Ongoing activities • Clusters • start a new one! • Working groups • Committees • Partnership • Join • Invite your colleagues • Host a summer meeting • Consider ‘running’ for office • Twice-yearly meetings • Attend • Next: July 14 -17, 2015 in Asilomar, CA • Present a talk or poster • Chair a session • Jump in and get involved – that’s what makes it work!

ESIP Online • Home page • http: //esipfed. org • Wiki • http: //wiki. esipfed. org • Commons • http: //commons. esipfed. org • Facebook • http: //tinyurl. com/esip-facebook • Twitter • #esipfed, @ESIPFed, @ESIPPres

Questions Peter Fox, president@esipfed. org Erin Robinson, erinrobinson@esipfed. org

Governance • Assembly • 1 partner, 1 vote • Annual meeting in Jan. • Leadership elected from Assembly representatives • Committee • Chair elected by Assembly • Chair serves on Executive Committee • Working group • Created by Assembly or Committee • Task-oriented • Cluster • Self-forming • For any reason • Ends when the last person hangs up

ESIP Groups • Standing Committees • Data Stewardship • Education • Information Technology and Interoperability • Products and Services • Administrative Committees • Constitution and Bylaws • Finance and Appropriations • Partnership • Working groups • • Air Quality Climate Education Energy & Climate Visioneers • Clusters • • • Cloud Computing Decisions Discovery Documentation Drupal Earth Science Collaboratory Geospatial Open Source Semantic Web Visualization • And Yours?