13 FEB 2024
Group(s) submitting the application:
Meeting objectives:
The goal of the Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences Interest Group (ESES-IG) is to work towards coordinating and harmonising multiple international efforts in building data research infrastructures and semantic frameworks. Through open communication, the ESES-IG seeks to reduce possible duplication, increase efficiency, share use cases, and promote partnerships and adoption across the global Earth and environmental sciences community.
The objectives of the session include:
- Continue mapping the landscape of Earth, space and environmental data infrastructures and vocabulary resources: further refinement of the ESES-IG catalogues;
- Showcasing recent achievements and projects;
- Reviewing efforts to manage the pervasive growth of 2D/3D imagery in the Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Meeting agenda:
- 0-5 Minutes (5 minutes): Introduction (Helen Glaves, BGS)
- 5-15 Minutes (10 minutes); Review the current status of our two key ESES IG supporting catalogues. Both of these are crowd-sourced: please contribute if you have, or you know of any resources, that could be added to either.
- The Data Infrastructure Catalogue which contains list of groups working within ESES, and those that include ESES as part of cross domain infrastructure initiatives; and
- The Semantic Resources Catalogue which contains lists of vocabulary/ ontology repositories, cross domain vocabulary infrastructures, activities creating and aggregating semantic assets. (Lesley Wyborn, ANU).
- 15-35 Minutes (20 minutes): a set of lighting presentations (5 minutes each) on new achievements/developments in Earth and Environmental Science Data Infrastructures. Potential presentations include:
- Update on the landscape of Earth, Space and Environmental Science WGs, IG and the proposed ESES CoP (Shelley Stall, AGU)
- Efforts in the international geophysics community to harmonise the use of identifiers and licenses for ground based geophysics surveys in seismology, geothermal and geodesy (Kirsten Elger, GFZ Potsdam) Confirmed
- Space for contributions from the audience.????
- 35-75 Minutes (40 minutes): Deep dive and group discussion on approaches and infrastructures to manage the creation, curtain and publication of 2D/3D imagery in Earth and Environmental Sciences (Kerstin Lehnert, IEDA)).
- 75-85 minute (10 minutes) Open mic – with the formation of the ESES-COP, what is the future of the ESES-IG? Should it merge into the COP or should it continue as a separate entity, within the ESES-CoP focussing on ESES research infrastructures and semantic frameworks (Lesley Wyborn, ANU).
- 85-90 Minutes (5 minutes): Wrap up, future chairs and next steps (Danie Kinkade, WHOI).
Target Audience:
Our target audience includes participants and their organisations associated with ESES research projects and efforts, as well as users of ESES datasets in other domains anywhere in the world. We particularly welcome participants from Africa, Asia, South America and any other members of the Global South.
Group chair serving as contact person:
Brief introduction describing the activities and scope of the group:
The Earth, space, and environmental science communities are developing, through multiple international efforts, both general and domain-specific leading practices for data management, infrastructure development, vocabularies, and common data/digital services. This Interest Group will work towards coordinating and harmonising:
- Efforts within the ESES globally to reduce possible duplication, increase efficiency, share use cases, and promote partnerships and adoption in the global community; and
- Cross domain initiatives to accelerate the uptake of ESES data in other disciplines to accelerate real time machine to machine transdisciplinary data analysis and research.
Short Group Status:
The ESES-IG began as a BoF at Plenary 10 in Montreal in 2017 focussed around exploring international connections for the US NSF funded EarthCube Project. At that meeting, it was recognised that there were many similar initiatives and projects in other continents and that these could be brought together under the umbrella of an RDA IG. The IG was formally endorsed by RDA in July 2018 and has been active at most plenaries since Montreal. Here are the links to previous plenaries:
- 21st RDA Plenary Salzburg (October 2023): Where are the FAIR Earth, Space and Environmental Science Discipline Data Repositories? https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/international-data-week-2023-salzburg/where-are-fair-earth-space-and-environmental-science
- 20th RDA Plenary Gottenburg (March 2023): Continuing the Circle of Life of Earth and Environmental Science Data Infrastructure Projects: Maturing PARSEC and ENVRI-FAIR, Beginning New Adventures… https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-20th-plenary-meeting-gothenburg-hybrid/continuing-circle-life-earth-and-environmental
- 19th RDA Plenary South Korea (June 2022): Near and Far: Highlighting Emerging Earthbound and Planetary Data Informatics Systems: https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-19th-plenary-meeting-part-international-data-week-20%E2%80%9323-june-2022-seoul-south-korea-31
- 18th RDA plenary Virtual (November 2021): New Developments in Earth and Environmental Science Data Infrastructures and Repositories: https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-18th-plenary-meeting-virtual/new-developments-earth-and-environmental-science-data
- 17th RDA Plenary Edinburgh (April 2021) Making Global Connections in Earth and Environmental Science Data Infrastructures and Repositories: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o991homDR33dqsFN91TC9OgJ5ye1wyj9WbUpEY7xXns/edit
- 16th RDA Plenary Costa Rica (November 2020): Digging Deeper – how do we globally describe, store and interoperate Earth, Space and Environmental Science Data: https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-16th-plenary-meeting-costa-rica-virtual/digging-deeper-how-do-we-globally-describe
- 14th RDA Plenary Helsinki IG meeting (October 2019): Globally Networking within ESES data infrastructures, as well as beyond to those of other domains: https://www.rd-alliance.org/esiprda-eses-ig-globally-networking-within-eses-data-infrastructures-well-beyond-those-other-domains
- 13th RDA Plenary Philadelphia IG Meeting (April 2019): Consolidating Global Connections and Collaborations: https://rd-alliance.org/ig-esiprda-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences-rda-13th-plenary-meeting
- 12th RDA Plenary Gaborone IG Meeting (November 2018): Developing Global Connections and Collaborations: https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-esiprda-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences-rda-12th-plenary-meeting
- 11th RDA Plenary Berlin IG Meeting (March 2018): Inaugural Meeting: https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences-rda-11th-plenary-meeting
- 10th RD-A Plenary Montreal BoF (September 2017): EarthCube International Partnerships: https://www.rd-alliance.org/earthcube-international-partnerships-rda-10th-plenary-bof-meeting
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