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Thank you very much, Krishna, for the clarofocation/explanation ... very helpful indeed!
Thanks & regrads, =ppy
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On Aug 9, 2012 2:18 PM, <pitlab@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Peter and others,
>
> Just a short note to clarfy EarthCube goals and its audience.
> EarthCube is being run under the Geosciences Directorate which
> includes three programs: solid earth science (called EAR;
> environmental science maybe part of this program), Ocean and
> Atmospheric Sciences. So ontology development should be inclusive of
> everything related to the earth. The first seven planned and funded
> domain workshops are from the EAR program (tectonics, geochemistry,
> paleontology, petrology, etc), and other domain workshops from the
> Oceans and Atmospheric programs will follow.
> So your activities should be inclusive of use cases, and their
> ontologic solutions from all three programs, and would fit well with
> EarthCube semantics/ontology objectives. That was the reason I
> supported volcanism and associated subdisciplines as a use case (in
> the semantics roadmap submitted to NSF) because it involves all three
> programs.
> Therefore I would encourage all of you to reach out to geoscientists
> in any of these programs to reach a broader domain audience.
> Just for the record my primary research activties are within many of
> the subdisciplines of solid earth science( tectonics, geochemistry,
> geochronology,field geology,petrology,ore deposit, and volcanic
> products), although volcanoes in the oceans comes under the ocean
> science program.
> We do have an opportunity to think very broadly about the earth, and
> the kinds of ontology practices that would enable domain experts to
> do better science.
>
> Hope these comments help,
> Krishna.
> Quoting Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> > Not being trained in the domain, I, for one, need clarification and
> > education.
> >
> > Is "EarthCube" only concerned with "Earth" or "Earth and Environmental"
> > Sciences?
> >
> > (... this may just be the same as Dalia's question; then, maybe not) ...
> > should we consider Ocean Science, Atmospheric Science, Environmental
> > Science, etc. in-scope here, or out of scope? Is this consistent with our
> > Mini-Series "Mission Statement" now, or do we need to tweak that a bit to
> > make sure there is no ambiguity?
> >
> > Thanks & regards. =ppy
> > --
> > On Aug 9, 2012 9:37 AM, "Dalia E Varanka" <dvaranka@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I've looked at the NSF 7 geo end-user workshop categories, but Krishna
> >> verbally mentioned, in addition to these, 3 main focus areas. I think 2 of
> >> them were ocean and atmosphere - Krishna, would you be willing to restate
> >> this point (unless you have no idea what I'm talking about)?
> >> From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> To: EarthScienceOntolog Mini-series
> >> Planning <mini-series-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 08/08/2012 10:44 PM
> >> Subject: [EarthScienceOntolog] Proceedings: 2nd organizing committee
> >> meeting - Fri 2012.08.03
> >> Sent by: mini-series-org-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> ------------------------------
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> >>
> >>
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >>
> >> The full proceedings of our Aug-3 (2nd) organizing committee meeting
> >> are now available online.
> >> See under:
> >> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog/GettingOrganized#nid3DGD
> >>
> >> Please review and edit the details as they pertain to you (and what
> >> you brought up) to enhance the accuracy and granularity of the
> >> documented proceedings. Kindly take note of pertinent action items and
> >> act on them accordingly.
> >>
> >> In particular, the following are ones (not limited to these, of
> >> course) that need immediate attention:
> >>
> >> * we need MarkSchildhauer and MikeDean to confirm their acceptance of
> >> the co-chair roles, respectively for sessions 4 and 5. (Please start
> >> coordinating with your respective co-chairs for the session as well.)
> >> ... [Attn: Mark & Mike, please confirm]
> >>
> >> * we need Krishna to take the lead and try, possibly by enlisting
> >> NSF's help, to engage each and every one of the principals driving the
> >> upcoming seven (or so) Geo end-user workshops, to get involved and
> >> support this mini-series. First contacts to be made, hopefully, within
> >> this week.
> >>
> >> * the kick-off session is now scheduled for Thu 2012.08.23 a 2-Hr
> >> virtual panel session starting at 9:30am PDT / 12:30am EDT / 16:30
> >> UTC, with KrishnaSinha and LeoObrst co-chairing. Krishna and Leo,
> >> please supply the title, abstract, list of panelists and their talk
> >> title ASAP (hopefully by Tue Aug-14.)
> >>
> >> * it would be nice if all session co-chairs would turn in (say, also
> >> by Aug-14) their preliminary session title, abstract or session plan,
> >> and a list of candidate panelists you are planning to contact and
> >> engage (this is important for coordination reasons as it's almost the
> >> same pool of panelists that everyone may be working off.) Kindly take
> >> note of the general session guidelines as discussed under
> >>
> >> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog/GettingOrganized#nid3DQI
> >> ** ... send your input to this list or post it directly to the wiki
> >> under:
> >> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog/GettingOrganized#nid3DB8
> >> and then make a post here to point people to your work there.
> >>
> >> * we got a lot of input and recommendations for candidate panelists
> >> and expertise they can offer. Please refer to the discussion under:
> >>
> >> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog/GettingOrganized#nid3DQM
> >> ... kindly continue to make recommendations; and, remember that we are
> >> aiming at having half the panelists at each session to be from the
> >> GeoScience domain, and half from the CompuetrScience or Ontology
> >> domain.
> >>
> >> * please step up efforts in trying to engage Geo-scientists'
> >> participation. Any idea on how we can more effectively engage them is
> >> highly appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks & regards. =ppy
> >> --
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