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Enabling Collaboration Among Earth Observation Scientists with
the GeoChronos PortalCameron Kiddle
Research Fellow, Grid Research Centre, University of Calgary
• An on-line platform• For:
• Earth Observation Scientists• Facilitating:
• Collaboration between scientists• Application access, management and sharing• Data access, management and sharing
• Leveraging:• Web 2.0 and social networking technologies• Cloud computing technologies• Semantic Web technologies
• Funded by:• CANARIE - Network Enabled Platform (NEP-1) program• Cybera
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(http://geochronos.org/)
Motivation• Social Networking
• Can enhance collaboration capabilities around data and applications – “Facebook for Scientists”
• Facebook Widely adopted• > 400 million users (50% log on to Facebook on any
given day)• > 25 billion pieces of content shared each month• > 550 thousand applications on Facebook Platform
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Collaboration
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• Social networking portal• Initial prototypes built on
Facebook and Ning• Current portal built on Elgg
• Social networking services• Blogs• Tags• Media/document sharing • Wikis • Friends/contacts• Groups• Discussions• Message boards• Calendars• Status• Activity Feeds
http://geochronos.org/
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Applications
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• Interactive Application Service (IAS)• On-line, on-demand access
to scientific applications• Share application sessions
and data with other users• Access control to
applications• Hosted on top of a cloud
computing platform (ASPEN) that can dynamically provision resources on-demand
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Data• Spectral Libraries
• Store, share and browse spectral data
• Manage metadata for spectra• Create and share metadata
schemas• View spectral plots,
metadata, ancillary files and maps
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Work in Progress• Collaboration
• Additional Elgg plugins to further enable collaboration• Publications, presentations ...
• Applications• Batch processing and automated workflow services
• Handle longer running data processing tasks and simulations • Automate data workflows (i.e., mosaic, reproject and subset MODIS data)
• Data• Generalization of spectral library solution
• Acquire, store, manage, browse and share other types of data• Employment of Semantic Web technologies
• better link / relate data and enable ontological mapping between metadata standards
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Portal Usage• Over 75 users from Europe, South America and North
America• Used at IAI International Wireless Sensor Networking
Summer School in Edmonton in July 2009 (~40 participants)
• Used by Tropi-Dry community for collaboration and sharing documents
• Slowly opening up portal to different communities of users as development progresses; public release planned for later this year
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Project Team
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Prinicipal Investigators
Dr. Arturo Sanchez-AzofeifaUniversity of Alberta
Dr. John GamonUniversity of Alberta
Dr. Benoit RivardUniversity of Alberta
Dr. Rob SimmondsUniversity of Calgary
Project CoordinationPlatform Development Domain Scientists
Virtual Organization
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Contact Information
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Cameron [email protected]://pages.cspc.ucalgary.ca/~kiddlec/
http://geochronos.org/[email protected]
http://grid.ucalgary.ca/ http://ceos.ualberta.ca/http://www.cybera.ca/
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