[Esip-envirosensing] Reminder: Envirosensing telecon, Tuesday, October 3

[Scotty Strachan]

Dear EnviroSensors,

Thanks those of you who came in to the call today (sorry your cell 
dropped, Janet!). We'll have the recording/notes on the wiki soon.

In the meantime, here is the workflow/software/tool/framework model that 
I tossed up as a starting point for the discussion. I think that further 
fleshing out of the details of current data flow/management practices 
associated with a model like this will be a good focus for the Cluster 
going forward. So, we'll dig deeper on the next call, and plan for a 
breakout session at the winter meeting.

This topic follows well on the Best Practices, and should fill in some 
needed use-case, lessons-learned, and future-steps material.

The overall questions as I heard them on the call: 1) what are the major 
components of sensor data management workflow today; 2) what is the 
state of connectability for semi-automated management; 3) what are the 
gaps in connectability and what are the pieces of information that flow 
between them; 4) how scalable/modular are the existing tools; 5) how can 
new modular/scalable tools be designed; 6) how can we consolidate and 
communicate these development needs to CI agenda/policy/funding sources?

Cheers!

Scotty


Scotty Strachan, Ph.D.
Director, Nevada Climate-ecohydrological Assessment Network (NevCAN)
Coordinator, Environmental Research
Department of Geography
University of Nevada
email: scotty at dayhike.net
alt-email: strachan at unr.edu
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On 10/3/2017 2:18 AM, Matthew Bartos via Esip-envirosensing wrote:
>
> Dear EnviroSensors,
>
> The EnviroSensing Cluster is having their next telecon today, 
> *Tuesday*, October 3rd, at 2:00pm Pacific/5:00pm Eastern. In this 
> special session, we are going to propose/plan for our group's topical 
> emphasis over the next couple of years. We feel pretty good about the 
> state of the "Best Practices" (although feel free to continue with 
> updates and contributions to that!), and we've spent a couple of years 
> looking at solutions towards interoperability (XDOMES, guest 
> presentations and engagement from CHORDS, NEON, smart water networks, 
> etc.).
>
> We in the Cluster leadership team feel like it is time to perhaps 
> focus our group emphasis on Software Tools for sensor networks - that 
> is, continuing the review of what is emerging or already out there, as 
> well as How To Integrate Software Tools in the near future. There is a 
> discussion to be had around developing either a loose (community) or 
> else very deliberate (single project, with community input) software 
> framework. Or both! Scotty is working on a software frameworks 
> proposal to NSF-CI, that would seek to ease near-end-to-end data 
> manager workflow while staying platform independent, and many folks in 
> the Cluster have already developed fairly mature software tools that 
> fulfill various functions of sensor data management.
>
> We invite those of you who are interested or feel strongly about this 
> topic (sensor software tools & frameworks) to weigh in and discuss the 
> current gaps, needs, or lack thereof for anybody seeking to set up a 
> sensor network (of any type or scale) from the ground-up (or, re-tool 
> a current management structure). We are thinking of the workflow and 
> tools for data and metadata from the generation of a data file through 
> to a pre-analysis curation state.
>
> If we get enough Cluster interest in this topic, we will take it 
> forward as our emphasis within the ESIP community for the next couple 
> of years. Hopefully many of you agree that this is a timely dialogue 
> and that you would also benefit strongly from participating and/or 
> digesting the results. We envision many small-to-large cooperative 
> projects emerging from our dialogue over time, within ESIP, EarthCube, 
> and NSF in general (or elsewhere!). So, we look forward to seeing you 
> on the call!
>
> *Telecon Info:*
>
> To join, go to https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/895837693 
> <https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/895837693>
>
> You can also dial in using your phone: 646-749-3122 
> <tel:%28646%29%20749-3122>; access code 895-837-693
>
> *Agenda for October 3 2017 (times in EST):*
>
> 5:00 - Meeting start / Introduction.
>
> 5:05 - Discussion: cluster goals for the next year
>
> Hope to see you all there!
>
>
> Best,
>
> Scotty, Janet, Don, and Matt
>
>
>
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