Background
EarthCube is a NSF Program from the Directorate for GeoSciences (GEO) and Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). The goal of the program is to "transform research in the academic geoscience community". This is achieved by the development of "cyberinfrastructure that is thoughtfully and systematically built to meet the current and future requirements of geoscientists."
To date, the EarthCube program has awarded 51 different projects. 25 of these are "building blocks", which are intended to be implemented by existing data facilities so that the capability is useful to a broad range of geoscientists. These building blocks are intended to become the 'enterprise architecture' for EarthCube .
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504780
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16514/nsf16514.htm
http://skc.isi.edu/wiki/earthcube/index.php/Building_Blocks
Earthcube "Workbench" conflation
It seems that there's some confusion around the idea of an Earthcube Workbench and how it relates to our NDS "Labs Workbench" project.
- On the All-Hands schedule are Workbench 101 and Science Driven Workbench sessions. It's unclear at this point what these refer to.
- An AGU presentation about an Interoperability Workbench
- 2016 EarthCube Architecture final report includes high-level outcome of the Geoscientist's Knowledge Workbench. (The term "workbench" is mentioned 44 times in this report)
- "a flexible and collaborative environment where geoscientists and cyber infrastructure experts can discover, access and utilize an array of data and services that foster cross-domain advances in information and knowledge"
Building Blocks
The following projects were funded "building blocks" for EarthCube
https://www.earthcube.org/group-type/funded-projects-building-blocks?items_per_page=60
https://www.earthcube.org/tools-inventory
| Name | Summary | Github | Workbench Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCube | BCube crawler: Nutch, Solr, Elastic Map Reduce Broker based on GEOSS Websites links are broken | https://github.com/b-cube/ | Possible integration with Workbench, but unclear whether it fits based on available information. |
| CHORDS | http://chordsrt.com/ - defunct website http://portal.chordsrt.com/about is working Portal available to deploy on AWS via Docker | Seems like a reasonable candidate for Workbench, particularly since it's already deployed to Amazon via Docker. | |
| CINERGI | May not be easily Dockerizable? | ||
| Cognitive Computer Infrastructure (GeoDeepDive) | Condor/Open Science Grid/DeepDive Input documents, OCR/NLP, output factor graph http://hazy.cs.wisc.edu/demo/geo/ defunct DeepDive is command line/API GeoDeepDive provides framework. There might have been a demo UI at some point | Seems to be primarily CLI and API/framework. Can be provided via workbench using either Cloud9 or Wetty interfaces. Probably not compelling to demonstrated. | |
| CyberConnector | http://cube.csiss.gmu.edu/CyberConnector/web/index http://cube.csiss.gmu.edu/CyberConnector/web/demo Appears to be a catalog of web services and model transformation/integration service | It's not clear how this might fit workbench. Model integration/comparison services might make sense, but there's no clear deployable artifact. Primarily (at least according to the video) a centralized web service and Window application. | |
| Integrated Data System | |||
| Digital Crust | https://github.com/digitalcrust/ | Not clear whether there is a software service here. | |
| DisConnBB | https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ec-disconbb http://nwisnfie-b.cloudapp.net/ defunct | No clear repository or service. | |
| EarthSystemBridge | Interoperable modeling frameworks | Not software. | |
| EarthCollab | Uses VIVO to model case studies to study collaboration | Not software | |
| EC Data Discovery Hub | No information | No information | |
| GeoDataSpace | Globus, but unclear how https://www.slideshare.net/TanuMalik/geodataspace-simplifying-data-management-tasks-with-globus | Not clear what this is | |
| GeoLink | Reusable ontology design patterns SPARQL endpoint | Primarily ontologies, but they seem to be publishable under SPARQL. | |
| GeoSciCloud | Compare and contrast IT (cloud) infrastructure providers | Not software | |
| Geosemantics | Developed at NCSA | Primarily a REST API | |
| GeoTrust | Seems to be related to GeoDataSpace (also Tanu Malik) | Not clear what the software is. | |
| GeoWS | Standard interface to geospatial data | A framework to present data conforming to a specific standard. Might be interesting to demonstrate, if we had an analysis client that could access the standard services. | |
| Leveraging Semantics and Crowdsourcing | Not software | ||
| OceanLink | Now part of GeoLink | ||
| ODSIP | Adds new functions to Data Access Protocol (DAP) framework to enable "Data as a Service" | ||
| OntoSoft | In progress | ||
| Polar Data Insights | Banana for Solr, D3js It looks like a whole system for crawling polar data from a variety of sources, with a pipeline that uses DeepDive. They've also developed interfaces that sit on top of Solr, that could be interesting as re-usable components. | Possibly the Banana and D3.js services could be made available in Workbench. | |
| Software Stewardship for the Geosciences | Not software | ||
| DRILSDOWN | Seems to be related to Jupyter notebooks? | https://github.com/Unidata/drilsdown | Appears to be plugin for RAMADDA repository? |
| Ensemble Toolkit |