1. E ARTH C UBE C ONCEPTUAL D ESIGN A Scalable Community Driven Architecture http://earthcube.org/group/scalable-community-driven-architecture Setting The Context E.Law 2016 ESIP Winter Meeting 1/7/16 1

2. Vision A community-driven dynamic cyberinfrastructure that will support Standards for interoperability Infuse advanced technologies to improve and facilitate interdisciplinary research Help educate scientists in the emerging practices of digital scholarship, data and software stewardship, and open science. 1/7/16 2

3. Mission Enable geoscientists to address the challenges of understanding and predicting a complex and evolving Earth system by fostering a community- governed effort to develop a common cyberinfrastructure Collect, access, analyze, share and visualize all forms of data and resources, using advanced technological and computational capabilities 1/7/16 3

4. Projects Between 2012-2015, 42 projects funded Domain end-user workshops 3 conceptual designs Building blocks Research Coordination Networks (RCNs) Integrative Activities (IAs) Governance 1/7/16 4

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6. Charge to Technology & Architecture Committee (TAC) Stewardship of the architecture Ensure relevance of technology to science Coordinate testbed and validation of technology components Facilitate technology integration Standards recommendations Identify gaps in coverage of needed capabilities, and recommend how to fill them 1/7/16 6

7. TAC Working Groups Use Cases Gap Analysis Architecture Testbed Standards o Science Use Cases” (K. Stocks, L. Kempler, D. Kinkade) o Gap Analysis” (T. Malik, A. Kelbert, P. Smith) o Testbed (E. Law, K. Keiser) o Standards (S. Richard, I. Demir) o Architecture (P. Yang, M. Ramamoorthy, I. Zaslavsky, B. Gomez, E. Law) 1/7/16 7

8. Architecture WG Goals: Address Architecture Requirements Recommendations for steps forward Status Workshop held in June High level principles defined White papers on architecture options for community and TAC review Architecture recommendations for EarthCube 1/7/16 8

9. Thank You Questions? 1/7/16 9