[Sigsti-l] Reminder ASIS&T AM 07 proposals due this week

[Joe Hourcle]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Angela Murrell wrote:

> Forwarded on behalf of Robin Peek, new Chair of the SIG STI,
>
>
> >The proposals are due this week for the conference. What is the status
> >of our current proposals? Any new ideas?


I apologize, I've been under the weather the last month.  I contacted a
few folks during the AGU, but hadn't followed up with them -- I e-mailed a
few folks when I saw the reminder earlier this afternoon, and have gotten
one firm committment, and I had a few preliminary commitments when I
talked to people last month.  (one of those preliminary commitments said
that he could make sure that someone from his department got sent, so I
guess I can count two firm commitments, but I don't have a title for their
presentation)


Anyway, here's what I have so far for the text, and notes on possible
presenters.

(I was thinking 3-4 presenters, at 15-20 minutes each, with plenty of time
for question & answer ... I probably need to put something to that effect
in the proposal still)

If anyone has any comments, feel free to let me know -- I was given some
notes on what to put into the proposal, but I'm not as familiar with the
audience/reviewers as the rest of you likely are.

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Joe Hourcle



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ASIS&T 2007 Annual Meeting Session Proposal
October 18-25, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Session Title:  Data Awareness and Discovery in the Space and Earth
                Sciences
Sponsor: SIG-STI


With social computing comes the need to share information with others, and
for others to find and discover the information that is being available to
them. The space and earth sciences have many datasets which are still
actively being updated, and thus are not stable enough for archiving, but
which are useful to share with the scientific community.

Many of the "Active Archives" maintained by the individual space and earth
science observatories are cooperating on federated search abilities while
maintaining the hetereogeneous and physically seperate repositories, in
efforts that the science community calls "Virtual Observatories" (VOs).
These efforts typically center around a specific scientific discipline,
and there exist VOs to track the astronomy observatories, as well as the
various space physics observatories from the sun through the heliosphere,
magnetosphere, and radiation belts to the ionosphere and atmosphere.

Other disciplines have organized directories of the various datasets, so
that scientists can locate the data that might be of interest to them,
while others have been moving towards centralizing and normalizing their
data of interest, so that it can be used in real time.

All of these endeavors attempt to reduce the time that it takes to share,
find, and aquire data, so that scientists can devote their efforts towards
doing science.  The majority of the efforts have been organized by the
scientists, with some programming support, without the help of the
information science fields.  Their efforts have created a wide variety of
solutions, from models to standardize the description of data holdings, to
ontologies to allow machines to determine the appropriate data to answer
questions, to federated search engines, to new protocols for serving and
subsetting data.


Presenters:

    Confirmed:

	Peter Fox, Chief Computational Scientist, High Altitude
	Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
	<http://web.hao.ucar.edu/~pfox>
	"Semantic data query access and using in a Virtual Observatory"

    Preliminary Commitments:

	D. Aaron Roberts, Heliospheric Data Environment Program Scientist,
	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
	<http://www-lep.gsfc.nasa.gov/stereo/DAR_Web_Page.html>
	(VSPO; LWSDE)

	Todd King, Technical Support Staff Supervisor/Lead Programmer,
	Institute of Geophyics and Planetary Physics, University of
	California, Los Angeles.
	<http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/people/tking.html>
	(SPASE, VMO)

	Raymond J. Walker, Professor in Residence, Institute and
	Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) and Department of Earth
	and Space Science; Research Geophysicist, IGPP, University of
	California, Los Angeles; Manager of the Planetary Plasma
	Interactions Node, NASA Planetary Data System
	<http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/people/rwalker.html>
	(SPASE, VMO, PDS)

    Prospective Alternatives:

	Peter Cornillon, Professor of Oceanography, Graduate School of
	Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
	<http://www.gso.uri.edu/faculty_staff/Cornillon_Peter_C.dir/>
	(OPeNDAP)

	Janet Kozyra, George Carignan Collegiate Research Professor,
	Department of Atmospheric Oceanic and Space Sciences, University
	of Michigan
	<http://aoss.engin.umich.edu/go/?id1=10&id2=1&id3=23>
	(Virtual Conference)

	Alisdair Davey, Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research
	Institute
	<http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~ard/>
	(Virtual Solar Observatory; Event Catalogs)

	Rahul Ramachandran, Research Scientist, at the Information
	Technology and Systems Center, University of Alabama in
	Huntsville.
	<http://maya.itsc.uah.edu/>
	(ontology use in science data discovery)

	Walter Snyder, Professor, Department of Geosciences; Executive
	Director, Environmental Science & Public Policy Research
	Institute, Boise State University
	<http://earth.boisestate.edu/content/people/faculty/wsnyder.html>
	(Open Archive)


Organizer:
	Joe Hourcle, Software Engineer, Solar Data Analysis Center,
	NASA/Goddard, Greenbelt, MD (SIG STI)
	Phone: (703) 371-9828; Email: oneiros at annoying.org