status: Completed
Chair (s): Lesley Wyborn, Ari Asmi, Rowena Davis
Group Email: [group_email]
Secretariat Liaison: enquiries[at]rd-alliance.org
The Internet now connects data, compute resources and software from globally distributed resources in real time. Where on planet Earth these resources are geographically located is irrelevant, but to enable online access to them, there is a rising need for programmatic access to both data, and to software to process data across institutional, domain and national boundaries. This requires the development of standardized machine-to-machine interfaces that can loosely couple data and software through agreed formats, interfaces, vocabularies and ontologies, preferably across multiple domains. The complexity of these online infrastructures require that they are built by much wider communities, through effective cooperation and governance, to enable new and innovative forms of interdisciplinary science from globally accessible data stores.
Community efforts are springing up everywhere, both within and across many scientific domains. These communities have similar goals and host parallel working groups that support the mission of advancing scientific research through data interoperability. There is great diversity in the maturity of these organizations and it is clear that there is much to be learned from and with each other to improve coordination and avoid duplication of effort.
Scholarly communication defined by Sloan includes ‘engaging the emerging community of stakeholders and practitioners tackling similar issues’. The time is ripe for identifying the key communities and partnerships within the major scientific domains that are developing infrastructures that enable sharing and processing of scientific data and ‘mapping the landscape’ of these activities to further improve collaborations and partnerships, particularly those ‘umbrella’ alliances that are enabling interdisciplinary data sharing.
Already mapping the landscape exercises are starting to be undertaken because the duplication is becoming increasingly obvious (if not embarrassingly so!). Of particular interest is a tool developed by Dawn Wright of ESRI that was used by EarthCube to map the location of, and types of communities within EarthCube (http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/ec-story)
This BoF is about establishing whether it is felt that there is a need to do a Mapping the Landscape exercise for the major data infrastructure building activities within and beyond RDA.
The BoF initially emerged at P8 through the discussion available here (see presentation files attached): https://www.rd-alliance.org/mapping-landscape-global-collaborations-building-data-infrastructures-rda-8th-plenary-bof-meeting
Past Plenaries:
11th Plenary Interest Group Berlin: Mapping Even More Landscapes: Examining More Tools and Supporting ‘Legends'
10th Plenary IG Montreal: Mapping the Landscape mini Summit: consolidated knowledge of all data organizations
9th Plenary IG Barcelona: Formalising the Mapping of the Landscape Interest Group and Scoping Activities
8th Plenary BoF Denver: Mapping the Landscape of Global Collaborations in Building Data Infrastructures
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Call for Proposals: Data to Dome Workshop @ Colgate University in New York
Dear Colleagues: Registration is open for our Data to Dome Workshop @ Colgate University, October 18 -20, 2019. Please visit http://www.datatodomecolgate.org to register. Description0 | Add new comment
RE: [rda-wg-ig-chairs][landscape-mapping][disciplinary-interoperability-framework-ig] Re: RDA Webinar on "The Atlas of Knowledge: navigating the RDA’s activities" - Thursday 9th November 2017, 12:00 UTC / 13:00 CET
by Rowena Davis
Thank you, Kathrin. I was unable to make the call today but do look forward to the reviewing the session when it is published. Best, Rowena -----Original Message----- From: kathrin.beck=***@***.***-groups.org [mailto:***@***.***-groups.org] On Behalf Of kbeck Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 1:44 AM0 | Add new comment
Re: [landscape-mapping] RE: [rda-wg-ig-chairs][landscape-mapping][disciplinary...
I am very interested, however I will be in the air at that time. Just a note to say that our team would also watch a recording with great interest. Best, Peter0 | Add new comment
RE: [rda-wg-ig-chairs][landscape-mapping][disciplinary-interoperability-framework-ig] RDA Webinar on "The Atlas of Knowledge: navigating the RDA’s activities" - Wednesday 9th November 2017, 12:00 UTC / 13:00 CET
by Rowena Davis
Thank you for passing along this information. I am quite interested in the contents of this webinar and hope to sit in; however, it occurs at 5 am MST (and early mornings are not my forte). Is anyone else from the Mapping the Landscape group available to attend, or will the webinar be recorded? It sounds like a great opportunity to learn more about the AoK. Best, Rowena Rowena Davis Project Coordinator Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures and Data Management Tel: + 520.621.2408 Arizona Geological Survey2 | Add new comment
BoF on International Partnerships at Montreal P10
Here's a BoF that is scheduled on the first day of P10 in Montreal that might interest you: *Birds of a Feather Meeting: EarthCube International Partnerships * *Date: Day 1, 19th September, 2017* *Time: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm* *Location: Mansfield 2 Room, Centre Mont-Royal* *Purpose:* This BoF meeting will discuss the progress of the U. S. National Science Foundation’s EarthCube program on a number of fronts and hold a focused discussion on the opportunities for strategic partnerships and3 | Add new comment
RE: [rda-dft][landscape-mapping] FW: [rda-dft] Draft Agenda for DFT July Virtual Meeting
by Rowena Davis
Thanks, Lynn, this could be really helpful. I’m happy to sit in on the meeting and see if any vocab/ideas should be considered for the MoL legend but I can’t figure out when it is… did I miss it? If I did, what is the best place to find notes? Very best, Rowena - Show quoted text -From: yarmel=***@***.***-groups.org [mailto:***@***.***-groups.org] On Behalf Of yarmey Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 8:54 AM1 | Add new comment
FW: [rda-dft] Draft Agenda for DFT July Virtual Meeting
by Lynn Yarmey
Hi Landscape Mappers, The upcoming Data Foundations and Terminology group’s telecom agenda may be interesting to some of you? Details are below, Lynn From: <***@***.***-groups.org> on behalf of Gary <***@***.***> Date: Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 9:34 AM To: Data Foundations and Terminology IG <***@***.***-groups.org> Subject: [rda-dft] Draft Agenda for DFT July Virtual Meeting This will be our 2nd organizational Virtual Meeting planned to get ready for P10 in September whose objectives include:0 | Add new comment
Re: [rda-biosharing-wg][landscape-mapping] FW: [rda-biosharing-wg] RDA Webinar Tuesday 23rd May, 14:00 CEST, 12 UTC - BioSharing WG output and registry
by Dawn Wright
Thanks Lynn!! -------- Dawn Wright, Ph.D., GISP, Esri Chief Scientist Esri | 380 New York Street | Redlands, CA 92373 | USA T 909 793 2853 x2182 | ***@***.*** | esriurl.com/dawn | esriurl.com/scicomm| @deepseadawn [i-17GlobeLogo_tag-right_sRGB] On 5/22/17, 1:18 PM, "yarmel=***@***.***-groups.org on behalf of yarmey" <***@***.***-groups.org on behalf of ***@***.***> wrote: Hi Landscape Mappers,0 | Add new comment
FW: [rda-biosharing-wg] RDA Webinar Tuesday 23rd May, 14:00 CEST, 12 UTC - BioSharing WG output and registry
by Lynn Yarmey
Hi Landscape Mappers, Note the webinar from the BioSharing WG tomorrow discussing their ‘mapping the landscape of data standards’ activity. FYI, Lynn From: <***@***.***-groups.org> on behalf of Pete McQuilton <***@***.***> Date: Monday, May 22, 2017 at 9:32 AM To: "***@***.***-groups.org" <***@***.***-groups.org> Subject: [rda-biosharing-wg] RDA Webinar Tuesday 23rd May, 14:00 CEST, 12 UTC - BioSharing WG output and registry Dear WG members,0 | Add new comment