Federation of Earth Science Information Partners EGIDA Workshop May 9-11, 2011, Bonn, Germany

ESIP is a venue for connecting, collaborating and innovating across a broad-based, network. Data Centers ResearchersApplication Developers ESIP fosters connections to make data matter.

 The ESIP community is comprised of technical and domain experts across government, industry and academic sectors.  125+ Member Organizations  16% Data Centers  42% Research  41% Applications Developers  Volunteer-driven with member-led focus areas:  Air Quality, Climate Change Education, Data Preservation, Discovery, Earth Science Education, Energy, IT, Semantic Web, Water.  ESIP is managed by the Foundation for Earth Science with funding from NASA, NOAA and EPA.

Data Re-use Use agreed upon standards Human Connections Face-to-Face Meetings (Jan, July) Telecons Collaborative Info Sharing Group workspaces on wiki Image modified from Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (2005)

 Technical Expertise Sharing and Networking  Wide Range of Tech Topics (e.g. Data Stewardship, Interoperability)  Science Domain Topics (e.g. Energy, Air Quality)  Education Topics (e.g. Climate Change, Data Usage in Classrooms)  Community Engagement  Participation in the Group on Earth Observations (GEO)  Professional Development (Data Management, Communication, Evaluation)  Outreach (ISRSE, NSTA, AGU)  Best Practices and Consensus Building

 ESIP is a GEO Observer Org. and Participates in its Activities:  Architecture Data Committee  Architecture Implementation Pilots  GCI Coordination Team  User Interface Committee  ESIP Air Quality WG seeded GEO Air Quality Community of Practice  GEO Water Cycle CoP to partner with ESIP on GEO projects  GEO Science & Tech. Committee following ESIP citation work

Air Quality & Health Applications  ESIP AQ WG & GEO AQ CoP:  Int’ l participation  OGC standards (.. netCDF), CF Conventions, ISO meta  Share software code, best practices  AQ Data Network  Seven servers, three clients  AQ Community Catalog for finding  Application for EPA Except. Events AQ Data Network is still fragile, incomplete and inadequate for real apps, but demonstrates fine grained data networking with GEOSS infrastructure and process

 On the Web  Website: esipfed.orgesipfed.org  Wiki: wiki.esipfed.orgwiki.esipfed.org  List:  Twitter:  Contact  Carol Meyer, Executive Director,  Erin Robinson, Information & Virtual Community Director,