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SEAD: SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT-ACTIONABLE DATA
Leveraging Existing Cyberinfrastructure for Long-Term Sustainability
Margaret Hedstrom-University of Michigan
James Myers-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robert H. McDonald-Indiana University
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 3.22.12
New Orleans, LA
#OCI0940824
SEAD TEAM
University of Michigan: Margaret Hedstrom (UM PI), Ann Zimmerman (Co-PI and Project Manager), George Alter, Bryan Beecher, Charles Severance, Karen Woollams, Jude Yew. Indiana University: Beth Plale (IU PI), Katy Borner, Robert H. McDonald, Kavitha Chandrasekar, Robert Ping, Stacy Kowalczyk, Robert Light. University of Illinois: Praveen Kumar (UIUC PI), Rob Kooper, Luigi Marini, Terry McLaren. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Jim Myers (RPI PI), Ram Prasanna Govind Krishnan, Lindsay Todd, Adam Wilson.
SEAD CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
• An international resource for sustainability science
• Novel technical and business approaches to supporting the long-tail of research data
• Lifecycle support: actionable data services integrated with curation and preservation infrastructure
SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH IS CENTRAL TO SOLVING MANY OF SOCIETY’S MOST CRITICAL CHALLENGES
• Local processes aggregating to produce global consequences
• Multiple time scales• Coupling of natural and human systems• Interacting systems-of-systems requiring
multidisciplinary understanding• Environmental – Economic - Social
DATA CHALLENGES IN SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH• Many dimensions, many coordinate systems,
many scales, many formats, a long-tail of providers and users, …
ENABLING SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH
• Discovering and integrating data are a major barrier!• Organize data geospatially, temporally, and thematically
• Understanding the quality and applicability of data is a significant challenge!• Provide provenance, literature connections, QA/QC
information, and other evidence about the data
• Collaborating across projects to coordinate data collection and analysis to address inter-disciplinary issues is a further barrier!• Provide ways for groups to collaborate and share data directly
during active projects
BUT...
• Managed Data storage and services are expensive!• Begging for metadata doesn’t work!• Curation and preservation are time consuming!• The long-tail is not standardized!• Data collections are always missing something valuable!• Data models evolve!• Cyberinfrastructure is obsolete by the time you build it!• Building community as you leverage cyberinfrastructure
SEAD: LEVERAGING EXISTING RESOURCES
• Cyberinfrastructure• IU Data Capacitor/HPC Capabilities• UIUC/NCSA HPC Capabilities• Rensselaer CCNI Capabilities
• Repositories• UM Deep Blue• IU ScholarWorks• ICPSR Repository• UIUC IDEALS
KEY QUESTIONS
• What could SEAD capture when?• A lot, as its created!• Take advantage of semantic approaches
• How can SEAD provide direct value to data producers, users, and curators?• Single mechanism for managing project and reference
data!• Value-added network-effect altmetrics services!
• How can SEAD lower barriers and reduce/realign costs?• web 2.0, 3.0, and social computing!
SEAD 18 MONTH PROTOTYPE TARGETS FOR CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
• Active and Social Content Curation• Pilot Active Content Repository, VIVO deployments• Exemplar services for Data Ingest, Discovery, Re-use,
Curation
• CI for Long-term Access• Data model, protocol design/development• Pilot Federated Repository infrastructure
SEAD CI QUICKVIEW
• SEAD will quickly build a repository and data services infrastructure for
sustainability research that can be responsively adapted based on
community feedback – Community Agile Development
• SEAD will leverage existing tools and emerging practices to dramatically
enhance the interactions of researchers and data librarians – Active
Curation
• SEAD’s focus on the long-tail will force an emphasis on ease-of-use and
low costs that is critical for long-term sustainability – Leverage Existing
Institution Resources for Long-term Access
• SEAD will leverage experiences in the sustainability research
community to provide guidance for other long-tail communities making
the transition to an interdisciplinary, systems-oriented approach to
research – Sustainability and Resource Growth Partnership and
Collaboration
THANK YOU
For more on SEAD go to:
http://sead-data.net
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