Past and Future Collaborative Expedition Workshops (3YED)
Collaborative Expedition Workshop #75, August 19, 2008, at NSF (3YEE)
4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1235 NSF, Board Room (3YEF)
Title: The Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Scientific Knowledge: Emergence, Validation, and Peer Review (3YEG)
- How to RSVP, Workshop Location/ Directions, and Remote Teleconferencing (3YEH)
- A. Workshop Purpose (3YEI)
- B. Workshop Questions (3YEJ)
- C. Agenda...Print Version (3YEK)
- D. Resources (3YEL)
- E. Workshop Series Background (3YEM)
A. Workshop Purpose (3YEN)
Participants will explore light-weight and "easy to use" cyberinfrastructure tools being deployed today in science settings to streamline information exchange, collaborative science, and peer review of workflow in a manner that enhances sharing of data and tools. Accelerating the pace of scientific discovery can occur when requisite levels of shared understanding are achieved across scientific communities. This quality of knowing, becomes a catalyst for scientifically productive and sustainable environments (including advanced networking, infrastucture, and computing) needed by domain communities to amplify multi-disciplinary gains in understanding at each phase of the scientific life-cycle process. This balanced organizing process also yields a scalable pathway to evolve and mature the agile and sustainable use of scientific data collections, data-intensive computation and storage, and advanced workflow tools for modeling and simulation. (3YEO)
It is likely that how we design our physical and virtual knowledge sharing environments (including scientific knowledge that will influence policy-making and innovation) will play a pivotal role in the continued vitality and creativity of our 21st century democracy. The workshop will open up dialogue to facilitate "bootstrapping" among multiple frontier communities and institutions committed to advancing civic design in the public realm, including scientific, educational, and cultural heritage institutions. It is an opportunity to understand current design challenges faced by leaders in frontier research settings, whose efforts will indelibly shape all of our cyberinfrastructure experiences in years to come. The workshop also supports information exchange among Federal Enterprise Architecture improvement activities advancing citizen-centric government in 2008, including Architecture Principles for The US Government (issued by CIO Council, effective date Aug. 24, 2007). (3YEP)
"It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human culture, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow." Werner Heisenberg (3YEQ)
"Creativity is a process that can be observed only at the intersection where individuals, domains, and fields intersect." Csikszentmihalyi, 1999 (3YER)
"Architecture is the thoughtful making of space." Louis Kahn (3YES)
Workshop planning provides an opportunity to experience shared stewardship around broad mission goals that include: (3YET)
- To be of service, in cross-boundary settings, not only to the region, but to the nation (3YEU)
- To contribute to successful innovation toward citizen-centric government (3YEV)
- To learn by doing, to put into practice the results of our own dialogue (3YEW)
- To experience the kind of complex, multidimensional organizational situation that is providing the background for strategic leadership (3YEX)
B. Workshop Questions (3YEY)
- 1. What are the conducive conditions for the creativity and governance needed among networked scientific and scholarly communities so results and implications flow in a timely manner into science and innovation policy channels? (3YEZ)
- 2. What common messages for advancing scientific advances are resonant across communities with in-depth and diverse experience with distributed collaboration, collections development, and scholarly knowledge infrastructure? (3YF0)
- 3. What are the Public Good aspects of Scientific Organizing, Knowledge Diffusion, and Innovation currently being advanced in the Public Realm? (3YF1)
- 4. What institutions and organizations have a shared mission for improved science and innovation policy as reflected in their strategic plans?''' (3YF2)
- 5. What are the current and future contributions of light-weight aggregator tools for advancing discovery, shared understanding, and organizing that scales across individuals, communities of practice, and institutions? Examples in use by this workshop community include: wiki namesake pages,Emerging Technology Life-cycle process and Strategy Markup Language (StratML) (3YF4)
- 6. How can relevant science policy and innovation stakeholders tap "build to share" principles being advanced by forward-looking information stewardship organizations, including: (3YF5)
- a) Digital data and information communities advancing sound approaches for electronically stored information. Examples include librarians, curators, web content managers, ontologists, researchers, artists, historians, data managers, and records managers. (3YF6)
- b) Open Standards bodies and consortia (3YF7)
- c) Universities and university consortia (3YF8)
- d) International stewardship associations (3YF9)
- e) Virtual organizations (3YFA)
- 7. What are the appropriate metrics for both the tangible and intangible assets associated with effective access and use of scientific tools that are collaboratively developed and shared? How can lines of business effectively account for the full range of benefits that accrue to scientific settings and societies when scientific tools are effectively provisioned and sustained over their respective life-cycles? (3YYO)
- 8. How do we create simulations that help us strategize and act effectively during rapid change – including the need for rapid discernment (moral and ethical implications) by people representing multiple disciplines with multiple "scientific languages? (3YFB)
- 9. What strategies are emerging to advance the public's awareness and participation in science, global virtual collections, and scholarly knowledge infrastructures? (3YFC)
- 10. How do we build from the best of past scientific research and also draw upon generational differences and cyberinfrastructure opportunities in a manner that reinforces strengths? (3YFD)
- 11. What are the emerging strategies for advancing scholarly knowledge infrastructures, collections management, and public web content with the resilience to mitigate disruptions or degradations of service over time? (3YFE)
- 12. How do we provide the right sets of information flowing into and out of science-based, mission-rehearsal simulations, etc. so the policy nuggets travel up even when the learning is experiential? (3YFF)
C. Draft Agenda (3YFH)
8:30am - Check-in and Coffee (3YFI)
8:45am - Welcome and Introduction . [ slides ] . [ audio ] (3YFJ)
Susan Turnbull, GSA, Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee, AIC Representative to DRM WG, and Co-chair, Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development Working Group, Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD SEW) (3YFK)
Richard N. Spivack, Ph.D., Economist, Impact Analysis Office Technology Innovation Program, NIST and Co-chair, Emerging Technology Subcommittee, AIC, (3YFL)
9:00am - Introduction to NOAAWatch: How to Deploy a Light-weight Aggregator for Science News and Information Exchange Among Multiple Science Agencies, RonaldJones, Internet Projects Specialist, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NOAAWatch . [ slides ] . [ audio ] (3YFM)
9:45am - Q&A and Discussion (3YFN)
10:00am - Break (3YFO)
10:15am – How to Create Multi-media Presentations for Multi-modality Access (Section 508 compliant), RonaldJones, Internet Projects Specialist, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) . [ audio ] (3YFP)
11:00am - Introduction to gRAVI: How to Deploy Light-weight "Virtual Interface" Services to Accommodate Rapid Access and Use of Diverse Tools, Ravi K. Madduri, The Globus Alliance, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago and (3YZR)
Experiences with gRAVI, BrianTieman, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory (3YFQ)
- [ slides-Madduri ] . [ slides-Tieman ] . [ audio ] (3Z3U)
11:45pm – Q&A and Discussion (3YFT)
12:00pm – Networking Lunch (3YFU)
1:00pm - How to Deploy a Light-weight, Context-Linked Event Notification System to Reduce Uncertainty in Time-sensitive, Cross-cultural, Scientific Collaborations, CeciliaRAragon, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . [ slides ] . [ audio ] (3YM4)
1:45pm - Q&A and Discussion (3YM5)
2:00pm - BREAK (3YM6)
2:30pm - Break-out Sessions (3YM7)
- 1. What Works? (3YZ3)
- 2. What Doesn't Work? (3YZ4)
- 3. What do We Need to Create? (3YZ5)
- 4. What do We Need to Know? (3YZ6)
/Workshop_08_19_2008_BreakOutGroup_One (remote teleconference only) (3YZ7)
/Workshop_08_19_2008_BreakOutGroup_Two (3YZ8)
/Workshop_08_19_2008_BreakOutGroup_Three (3YZ9)
/Workshop_08_19_2008_BreakOutGroup_Four (3YZA)
3:30pm - Report out from Break-out Sessions (3YM8)
4:15pm - ADJOURN (3YM9)
D. DRAFT Resources (3YFV)
- TinyURL for this page (3YZV)
- FLASK article (3YZU)
- NOAAWatch (3YFW)
- Globus Alliance (3YFX)
- Open Archival Information System Reference Model, Jan. 2004 (3YFZ)
- Open Archival Inforation System, CCSDS, Jan. 2002 (3YG0)
- draft XML Formatted Data Unit and Construction Rules, February, 2008 (3YG1)
- Modeling and Simulation at the Exascale for Energy and Environment, Department of Energy, Office of Science (3YG2)
- Open Science Grid (3YG3)
- Earth System Grid (3YG4)
- Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science (3YG5)
- VisTrails (3YYP)
- DOE ASCR SciDAC Petascale Data Storage Institute, http://www.pdsi-scidac.org (3YG6)
- Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Laboratory, http://www.pdl.cmu.edu (3YG7)
- IETF Parallel NFS (NFSv4.1), http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/nfsv4-charter.html and http://www.pnfs.com (3YG8)
- The Computer Failure Data Repository http://cfdr.usenix.org (3YG9)
- Kepler Project (open source scientific workflow) (3YZW)
- Taverna Project (open source scientific workflow) (3YZX)
- Zotero resource management tool for researchers (3YZY)
E. Workshop Series Background (3YGA)
Purpose and Audience: GSA's USA Services/ Intergovernmental leads monthly Collaborative Expedition workshops to advance the quality of citizen-government dialogue and collaborations at the crossroads of intergovernmental initiatives, Communities of Practice, Federal IT research and IT user agencies. The workshops seek to advance collaborative innovations in government and community services such as emergency preparedness, environmental monitoring, healthcare and law enforcement. (3YGB)
The workshops serve individuals from government, business, and non-government organizations to practice an emerging societal form, Intergovernmental Communities of Practice (CoPs), in light of the Citizen-Centric Government goal of the President’s Management Agenda and the Public Information Access provisions of the E-government Act of 2002. (3YGC)
Each workshop organizes participation around a common purpose, larger than any institution, including government. By learning how to appreciate multiple perspectives around potentials and realities of this larger “purpose”, subsequent actions by individuals representing many forms of expertise, can be better expressed in their home and collaborative settings. By centering around people and the "whole system" challenges they organize around, IT design and development processes can mature with less risk and greater national yield of breakthrough performance. (3YGD)
Joint workshop sponsors in addition to GSA, include the Emerging Technology Subcommittee of the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee and Coordinating Groups of the Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, including, Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development CG, High End Computing CG, High Confidence Software and Systems CG, Large-Scale Networking CG, Software Design and Productivity CG, and Human-Computer Interaction and Information Management CG. (3YHZ)
These organizations value this “frontier outpost” to open up quality conversations, augmented by information technology, to leverage the collaborative capacity of united, but diverse sectors of society, seeking to discover, frame, and act on national potentials. (3YGE)