[esip-semantictech] esip-semanticweb Digest, Vol 108, Issue 1
Bagstad, Kenneth
kjbagstad at usgs.gov
Mon Mar 5 13:00:14 EST 2018
Hi folks -
Wanted to offer some brief thoughts after the US Semantic Technologies
Symposium held in Dayton last week that Ruth, John, and I attended (
http://us2ts.org/). I found it to be thought provoking and with some great
ideas, but with a much bigger emphasis on ontology construction than
application, and relatively minimal geosemantics discussion included in the
plenary track. There was an almost constant call for "more tools" but
notably absent was an inventory of what tools are already available, their
strengths/weaknesses, and how they might be built upon rather than
restarting at square one. Some of that may stem from being a dispersed
field where technology is constantly advancing and tools that don't gain a
foothold within the 2-5 year development window of their grant funding
disappear into the ether. Still, a lack of vision of where we want to go
combined with ignorance of the "tools landscape" seems like an environment
ripe for wheel reinvention.
I mention this given the NSF call that Lewis had circulated. Are we clear
on our big-picture goals (beyond those in the ESIP bylaws), the tools that
we already have and bring to the table (thinking beyond SWEET and COR to
John's work on BioPortal and CEDAR, to our work on k.LAB/Integrated
Modelling, which sounds like it has some overlap with what Lewis is
proposing, and others), and how we might most clearly reach those goals?
Ruth and John, would be interested in your perspectives as well - my
perspective is as a cross-domain specialist still relatively new to ESIP
who collaborates on semantic web applications, but not as a computer
scientist, so those with a longer history in the semantic web field might
be able to allay some of those concerns.
Cheers,
Ken
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Ken Bagstad, PhD
Research Economist
Geosciences & Environmental Change Science Center
U.S. Geological Survey
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> 1. Re: Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation
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> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 16:41:24 +0000
> From: "Mcgibbney, Lewis J (398M)" <Lewis.J.Mcgibbney at jpl.nasa.gov>
> To: John Graybeal <jbgraybeal at mindspring.com>, "Mattmann, Chris A
> (1761)" <chris.a.mattmann at jpl.nasa.gov>
> Cc: Ruth Duerr <ruth.duerr3 at gmail.com>, Carlos Rueda
> <carueda at mbari.org>, esip-semanticweb
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> Subject: Re: [esip-semantictech] Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained
> Scientific Innovation (CSSI) - Data and Software (NSF 18-531)
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> Hi John,
> Responses inline
>
> From: John Graybeal <jbgraybeal at mindspring.com>
> Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 6:17 PM
> To: "Mattmann, Chris A (1761)" <chris.a.mattmann at jpl.nasa.gov>
> Cc: Ruth Duerr <ruth.duerr3 at gmail.com>, Carlos Rueda <carueda at mbari.org>,
> esip-semanticweb <esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org>, "Mcgibbney, Lewis
> J (398M)" <Lewis.J.Mcgibbney at jpl.nasa.gov>
> Subject: Re: [esip-semantictech] Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained
> Scientific Innovation (CSSI) - Data and Software (NSF 18-531)
>
> I am interested, though curious about how you?ll include all that in GEO
> land, and who your science PIs will be.
>
> There are several folks who have come forward on this list already.
> Several of them already have been/are currently successful in obtaining NSF
> funding so I would suggest a strong proposal would include those folks, and
> essentially build off of and strengthen the semantic components/aspects of
> existing DIBBs (or other project(s)) they have. I also have some
> collaborators from CalTech we could loop in.
>
> I was thinking more in terms of one of the big infrastructure components,
> getting money to fund a semantic operational resources center. But that
> will also need scientists, and from an odd set of domains.
>
> Personally, I think that this would be aiming towards the higher end of
> the $1M ceiling per year. It was mentioned on the call that such proposals
> need to demonstrate directly and strong application to clear, well defined
> science problems. This would in turn mean that, as you stated, we need (i)
> either a bunch of willing scientists on the proposal or (ii) to tap into
> existing community(ies) which have a dire need for our proposal.
>
> For everyone interested in learning for about the call specifics, see the
> following URL
> https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=244406&org=CISE
> If you browse to the bottom of the page, you will see the audio and
> presentation resources.
> Lewis
>
> John
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 2:49:49 PM
> Subject: [esip-semantictech] Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific
> Innovation (CSSI) - Data and Software (NSF 18-531)
> Hi Folks,
> We mentioned, at the very very end of today?s call, that there is a
> brand-new NSF call out
>
> https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18531/nsf18531.pdf
> I would like to initiate a thread for putting a team together to advance
> our semantic technologies roadmap through a Semantic Software Framework
> which will meet the directorate specific priorities of the NSF Directorate
> for Geoscience (GEO).
>
> I?ve provided an overview of what GEO is looking for below.
> I have a concept in mind which would combine the following semantic
> technologies; COR, BioPortal, RDF, SPARQL, GeoSPARQL, SPARLQL-ST with VR/AR
> Technologies to promote seamless discovery, access, and transfer of data
> and metadata across data resources and centers that are supported by GEO.
>
> What I would like to know initially who would be interested in progressing
> the idea of putting together a ESIP SemTech (and others) proposal team?
>
> =======================================
>
> The Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) is interested in the following
> research fields: atmospheric and geospace science, earth science, ocean
> science, and polar science. The directorate welcomes proposals that focus
> on the development and implementation of automated, executable, and
> optimized workflows that:
> ? are capable of real- and near-real-time archiving and
> manipulation of sensor and other field-based data, including experimental
> and/or simulation data;
> ? promote seamless discovery, access, and transfer of data and
> metadata across data resources and centers that are supported by GEO;
> ? ?leverage-through-sharing? of existing investments in
> university, federal, and commercial computing and infrastructure;
> ? engage community models for the assimilation and use of data for
> initialization, state estimation, or sensitivity analysis; and
> ? encourage the development or reuse of computational techniques
> (i.e., high-performance distributed computing, machine learning, cloud
> computing, etc.) without which simulations would be difficult to conduct or
> large volumes of data could not be manipulated, analyzed, and transferred.
> The proposed computational techniques must be framed as sub-tasks within
> the proposed workflow.
>
> All workflows must be designed to overcome significant bottlenecks to
> solving compelling Earth science questions.
>
> Programmatic areas of interest within GEO include:
>
> The Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
> is interested in activities that advance understanding of the current and
> future states of
> high latitude ocean circulation, atmospheric conditions, marine and
> terrestrial ecosystems, and biogeochemistry, and the
> mechanisms that drive the seasonal evolution of sea and land ice melt. OPP
> welcomes interdisciplinary research that focuses
> on how the components of the polar regions (land, atmosphere, ocean, sea
> and land ice, etc.) interact as a system, with
> feedbacks and unanticipated emergent properties. OPP also welcomes
> proposals related to polar astrophysics and geospace
> research. Investigators who are interested in Arctic social science
> research are encouraged to also read the SBE
> Programmatic Areas of Interest below, and to contact the cognizant OPP and
> SBE program officers.
>
> The Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS)
> is interested in answering fundamental science questions related
> to atmospheric and geospace research, including a wide variety of
> important processes that impact humans and society, such
> as space weather, tropospheric weather, physical and dynamic meteorology,
> climate, and air quality.
>
> The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR)
> is interested in improving our understanding of the structure,
> composition, and evolution
> of the Earth, the interaction with life, and the processes that govern the
> formation and behavior of the Earth's materials. EAR
> interests include the fields of "solid-earth" science (geology and
> paleontology, geochemistry, geophysics, continental
> hydrology, geomorphology, tectonics, and geobiology).
>
> The Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE)
> is interested in activities that advance understanding of all aspects of
> the global
> oceans and ocean basins, including their interactions with people and the
> integrated Earth system.
>
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