The Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences Interest Group (ESES-IG) works towards coordinating and harmonizing multiple international efforts, both in general and domain-specific data infrastructure development, vocabularies, and common data/digital services.  Through open communication, the ESES-IG seeks to reduce possible duplication, increase efficiency, share use cases, and promote partnerships and adoption in the community. For P18, the session will be introducing several new projects/initiatives and be giving updates on one that was presented in previous plenaries. A block of time will also be devoted to reviewing the current format of the group and of the plenary sessions.

The objectives are:

1. Continue mapping the landscape of Earth, space and environmental data infrastructures and vocabulary resources: further refinement of the ESES-IG catalogues.

2. Showcasing several new projects and updating an existing ones

3. Introducing and setting up two new ESES-IG Working Groups

Collaborative session notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H8DhtiGolWsnz-9lIaLBJY1zNfWU9QlBjcAKZ6QYfXw/edit?usp=sharing

• 0-5 Minutes (5 minutes): Introduction and allowing time for getting the virtual system going (Helen Glaves).

• 5-15 Minutes (10 minutes); Review the current status of our two key ESES IG supporting outputs (Lesley Wyborn). Both of these are crowd-sourced: please contribute if you know of any resources that could be added to either.

  1. The Data Infrastructure Catalogue which contains list of groups working within ESES, and those that include ESES as part of cross domain infrastructure initiatives; and

  2. The Semantic Resources Catalogue which contains lists of vocabulary/ ontology repositories, cross domain vocabulary infrastructures, activities creating and aggregating semantic assets. 

• 15-45 Minutes (30 minutes) Lighting presentations on global activities in Earth and Environmental Science Infrastructures

  1. FAIR guidelines for Information Quality International Community Guidelines for Sharing and Reusing Quality Information of Individual Earth Science Datasets (Ge Peng) 

  2. GEO In Situ Data Strategy (Helen Glaves/Florian Franziskakis)

  3. OneGeochemistry (Marthe Klocking) 

  4. Transforming Water, Weather, and Climate Information through In Situ observations for Geo-Services in AFRICA (https://twiga-h2020.eu) (Frank Annor) 

  5. PARSEC update on Vocabulary work: (Co-located RDA P17 Workshop (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4705129 ) Data Dictionary:( http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4683066) Cookbook (Pedro Corrêa)

  6. The ESIP Data Management Training Clearing House. (Karl Benedict and Nancy Hoebelheinrich) 

• 45-75 Minutes (30 minutes): Two Breakouts on two new ESES-IG Working Groups

  1. Coordinating ESES Data Preservation and Scholarly Publication Processes (Danie Kinkade)  

     • Link to draft Case Statement

  2. Earth, Space, and Environmental Science Complex Citation (Shelley Stall) 

     • Link to draft Case Statement

• 75-85 Minutes (10 minutes): Circle back and open discussion on the two ESES working group proposals

• 85-90 Minutes (5 minutes): Wrap up and next steps.

Our target audience includes participants and their organizations associated with ESES research projects and efforts, as well as users of ESES datasets in other domains anywhere in the world. We particularly welcome participants from Africa, Asia, South America and any other members of the Global South.