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RCN SEN: Building a Sediment
Experimentalist Network
Leslie Hsu (IEDA, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Wonsuck Kim (UT Austin)
Brandon McElroy (U Wyoming)
Raleigh Martin (UCLA)
Kimberly Litwin Miller (UT Austin)
Charles Nguyen, Danny Im, Gian Carlo De Guzman (UMN)
January 2015, EarthCube C4P Webinar
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1. Sediment experiments are unique
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2. Expectations about research data are evolving
1. New technologies create
more data
2. Funding agencies want
data management plans
3. Journals want links to
archived full datasets
4. Better attribution is enabled
by new metrics for data
citation
J. Eggenhuisen
Data Stratigraphy
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3. Grand challenges in experimental
geomorphology require data syntheses
reproducibility scalingautogenic vs. allogenic processes
Community experiment at
Stratodynamics 2013
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scaling
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We need SEN.SEN’s goal is to integrate the efforts of sediment experimentalists and build
a knowledge base for guidance on best practices for data collection and
management, and to be the liaison to cyberinfrastructure and geoinformatics
communities.
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The experimental life cycle
parallels the data life cycle.
SEN activities are designed to
help at each step.
S. Ahn, in
Hsu et al.,
accepted
SEN supports researchers
throughout the
data lifecycle
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Three components of SEN
SEN-EC Experimental
Collaboratories
• Facilitate collaboration
between experimental
laboratories
• Develop collaborative
infrastructure
• Broadcast experiments
• Distributed experiments
SEN-KB Knowledge
Base
• Develop online resources
for experimental data
management
• SEN-Wiki
• Recruit datasets for
inclusion in online
repositories
SEN-ED Education &
Data Standards
• Facilitate community
discussion of data
practices and standards
• Disseminate guidelines
• Provide training about data
management and sharing
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Town Halls – to facilitate community discussion
2012: Surface Process Experiments –
A Community Discussion
2013: Building a Sediment
Experimentalist Network
2014: Publishing and Sharing
Earth Surface Data
SEN-ED
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Workshops – to learn and experiment together
Dec 2012: End-User workshop
Experimental Stratigraphy (UT
Austin)
Aug 2013: Stratodynamics
(Nagasaki U.)
Nov 2014: Experimental Life
Cycle workshop (Utrecht U.)
SEN-ED
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Summer Institute Classes– to reach students
SEN-ED
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Proposed metadata profile for experiments- to suggest a guideline for community discussion
SEN-ED
Basic information:
Following DataCite
Discipline-specific information:
For reuse of the dataset
Hsu et al., accepted
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SEN Wiki - to make data and methods discoverable
SEN-KB
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SEN Sediment and Instrument Lists- for knowledge transfer
Where have others bought sediment and instruments?
goo.gl/NUA5mS (Tabs 1 and 2)
SEN-KB
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Community Experiments - to create shared experiences and datasets
SEN-EC
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Broadcast and Distributed experiments- to test reproducibility and gain efficiency
SEN-EC
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Newsletters, Blog,
Social Media – to inform
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SEN Activity Summary
Listen to needs Gather information Share with everyone
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SEN and EarthCube
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SEN + GeoSoft = encouraging best practices for software
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SEN + CINERGI = cataloging SEN-related resources
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SEN + Geosemantic Framework = better documented datasets and connections to models
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What defines success for SEN?
• SEN information is easily discoverable and accessible:
Earth surface process community knows where to go to find
information and resources on sediment experiments
• SEN and CI know each others’ capabilities and needs:
Domain scientist knowledge of cyberinfrastructure resources much
higher than without EarthCube involvement, CI has a use case
• SEN begins a culture change of sharing and documenting data:
New experimentalists expect to share information about their
experiments
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Challenges to reaching SEN’s goals
• Reaching our audience and achieving critical mass for sharing
• Long-term storage of large volume datasets
• Coming to consensus, agreeing on shared formats
• Making time for SEN in the research workflow
• Sustainability of SEN activities
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Contact us!
@sedimentexp
http://workspace.earthcube.org/sen
And many thanks to:
• Kimberly Litwin Miller (UT Austin/U Wyoming)
• Danny Im (UMN)
• Gian Carlo De Guzman (UMN)