www.si.umich.eduInfrastructureWorkshop

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www.si.umich.edu/InfrastructureWorkshop
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Atmosphere
Geology (EAR, USGS, DoE, EPA, etc.)
Ocean
Ecology
Hydrology
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What are the objectives of X

• A National Geoscience Information framework
  should be
• distributed
• interoperable
• uses open source standards and common protocols
• respects and acknowledges data ownership
• fosters communities of practice to grow and
• facilitates development of new web services and
  clients
• Users access a science data catalog to discover
  available geoscience data by location, from all
  federal and state holdings
• User can select and acquire data for input into
  software applications to achieve their goals
  applications may be on the web, or hosted locally
• The original data source would be credited with
  the download

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The National XXX is a community of informatics
providers and scientists whose aim is to enable
transformative science across the earth and
natural sciences by

• Fostering communcation and collaboration
• Sharing resources and expertise
• Enabling interoperability
• Sustaining service to the community over the
  long haul

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For Public Consumption
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Transformative Science Goals

• Domain Specific
• Transcending domains
• Can be based in part in the Science Magazines top
  125

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What are the next steps
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Who is leading this effort