[Esip-agclimate] April 5th Cluster Call: Ag and Climate Data, from Field to Repos, Completely FAIR

[Daniel Fuka]

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On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 6:01 PM Daniel Fuka <drfuka at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> In the last cluster call, Bill and Brian announced they were stepping
> back from co-chairing the ACC and that the ACC is going into a
> "temporary hiatus", and indeed the cluster under their leadership has
> accomplished a lot. With this announcement, some of us have discussed
> transitioning from the most recent concept mapping theme to using the
> group to bridge several of the existing ESIP Clusters to provide a
> full data workflow workbench. Bill and Brian have given us the
> blessing to take the ball and run.
>
> A placeholder for this theme that I can offer right now is:
> Ag and Climate Data, from Field to Repos, Completely FAIR.
>
> The idea is to do this by symbiotically linking relevant clusters,
> starting with a starting point in in-situ data measurement, say the
> IoT based sensors currently discussed in the Environmental Sensing
> Cluster, and following the data representations of these measurements
> though the full data workflow to its final yet least transformed
> archive and retrieval architecture.
>
> By full data workflow, consider as an example the push of an electron,
> we shall call Frodo, that is created when twisting two different
> metals together causing the voltage difference that is measured at one
> of several analog channels in a microcontroller, (we can refer to as
> Gandolf), which meets up with a geo-coordinate from a GPS, a humidity
> driven resistance, and pressure transducer resistance we can refer to
> as Sam, Merry, and Pippin respectively. Basically the goals of the
> cluster would be determining the best methods to make contact with a
> enough Eagles before a bunch of Humans, Orcs, and Elves start making
> these simple electrons, resistances, and geohashes into a nonsensical
> story that takes 6 books and 4 movies to make any sense of before the
> data can be fed back into AI ready architectures... potentially
> destroying or allowing the data to fall into the wrong hands along the
> way.
>
> I am hoping we would be offering a cross-cluster entity that would not
> duplicate, but leverage and complement the work of aligned clusters
> ongoing within their respective contexts and around their respective
> core interests, and more importantly, to establish workbenches and
> sandboxes for us to identify and provide solutions along with
> educational platforms for in-situ sensor data workflows.
>
> A potential use case revolves around the recently launched USDA ARS
> "Partnerships for Data Innovation" (PDI) which has the mission to
> develop and implement a series of sensors and other data-collection,
> management, integration, and sharing systems that will help
> stakeholders get the most from their limited resources. I have direct
> handels into this USDA ARS group, and I believe they would take
> interest in our mission.
>
> In our first meeting tomorrow (possibly today) April 5th, it would be
> nice for folks who are interested in the workflows of in situ Ag and
> Climate sensor data, the semantics and/or ontologies related, and/or
> the transport techniques of this data to have an initial discussion of
> what would interest them in this full data workflow, as well as to
> start an accelerated planning meeting for a workshop centered on the
> current state of the ESIP Federation with Sensors and Architecture
> examples provided at this summer's ESIP meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.
>
> Thank you for reading this far, and my apologies if you (wrongly)
> think Pippin or Merry better represent geolocation than Sam.
>
> dan