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EarthCube Governance Plenary Virtual Workshop

EarthCube Governance Plenary Virtual Workshop. April 11 & 17, 2012. Agenda. Welcome Purpose and Scope of the Governance Roadmap Workshop Background and Research on Governance How We Jumpstart the Planning Process Governance Examples What are Governance Functions?

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EarthCube Governance Plenary Virtual Workshop

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  1. EarthCube Governance Plenary Virtual Workshop April 11 & 17, 2012

  2. Agenda Welcome Purpose and Scope of the Governance Roadmap Workshop Background and Research on Governance How We Jumpstart the Planning Process Governance Examples What are Governance Functions? Broader Impacts & Linkages to Other Communities Governance Use Cases/Mental Exercises Community Discussion

  3. Governance Roadmap Workgroup Goals Lee Allison, Arizona Geological Survey David Arctur, OGC

  4. EQb Governance Workshop Steering Committee Leaders of EarthCube White Papers and Expressions of Interest that address governance • Lee Allison – AZGS • Tim Ahern - IRIS • David Arctur - OGC • Jim Bowring – College Of Charleston • Gary Crane - SURA • Geoffrey Fox - IU • HannesLeetaru - ISGS • Kerstin Lehnert-LDEO • Mohan Ramamurthy - Unidata • Erin Robinson -ESIP • IlyaZaslavsky- SDSC

  5. Introduction • Goal of Governance Roadmap Work Group • Develop a roadmap for building the governance framework • Compile ideas from research and community input • Determine what important questions need to be asked • Evaluate organizational use cases and mental exercises • NOT to develop governance framework itself

  6. Introduction (cont’d) NSF Roadmap Guidance - 10 points, path forward   Governance assumptions (existing practices that we will build on) Governance roadmap principles Scope (what is included, what isn’t)

  7. We are here

  8. EarthCubeTimeline

  9. NSF Guidance – 10 Points 1. Purpose 2. Communication 3. Challenges 4. Requirements 5. Status 6. Solutions 7. Process 8. Timeline 9. Management 10. Risks

  10. Governance Assumptions • What governance are we addressing? • Operational, scientific, and strategic • Existing practices that we will build on: • Communication and coordination across distinct communities • Some dynamics are outside our control • Each group keeps its mandates • Must be built on existing practices

  11. Governance Roadmap Principles Community led, autonomous Open, transparent, inclusive approach Consensus oriented, but with pragmatic approach to decision making (not always/only consensus) Balanced representation from full range of participants

  12. Governance Roadmap Scope • What’s in • Suggestions for bridging communities • Key issues and lessons learned from other communities’ governance approaches • What’s not in • Technology content • Specific governance structures

  13. Agenda Welcome Purpose and Scope of the Governance Roadmap Workshop Background and Research on Governance How We Jumpstart the Planning Process Governance Examples What are Governance Functions? Broader Impacts & Linkages to Other Communities Governance Use Cases/Mental Exercises Community Discussion

  14. Background and Research on Governance Genevieve Pearthree & Lee Allison Arizona Geological Survey

  15. Purpose • Review governance approaches and background philosophies • Describe various governance models • How are governance structures alike and different in theory, practice, and implementation? • Which models work for best for which types of organizations? • How do governance structures facilitate achievement of overall goals? • What challenges in governance have organizations faced in the past?

  16. Initial Research and Case Studies • Project Mohole • IT Governance by Weill & Ross (2004) • NSF EarthCube White Papers • Governance (12 papers) • Design (26 papers) • World Wide Web Consortium

  17. Process • Notes and summaries of all material reviewed • Synthesis of most important points from each source • PowerPoint presentations • Initial review of literature presented at Governance Steering Committee meeting, April 4 – 5, 2012 • Additional presentations will be given in topical breakout webinars • To be included as appendices in EarthCube Governance Roadmap • All documentation is posted on EarthCubeNing site

  18. Process (cont’d) • Master references list • Working Document • Includes references cited by NSF EarthCube White Papers and additional materials suggested by community • Summaries, PowerPoint presentations and reference lists posted on EarthCube Ning site • Promote transparency and community feedback

  19. Recurring Themes in Research: Success • Need to consider the purpose and definition of success • What are the overall objectives of EarthCube? • Currently undefined • Governance systems must consider a discussion of overall objectives • What is the definition of EarthCube success? • Who is responsible for creating and updating this definition?

  20. Recurring Themes in Research: Leadership • Leadership structure • Should leadership be centralized or decentralized? • What decisions must be made? • How should decisions be made? • Who has the ultimate authority to make decisions and resolve disputes?

  21. Recurring Themes in Research: Community • Who is involved in the EarthCube community? • How can disparate communities within geosciences and IT be brought together to foster an environment of collaboration and trust? • What does it mean to be a community member? • Access to data, role in decision-making, ability to make contributions, etc. • How can EarthCube meet the evolving needs of its community?

  22. Recurring Theme in Research: Design & Sustainability • How do cyberinfrastructureneeds determine governance systems and vice-versa? • Sustainability • How can governance help assure EarthCube continuation and stability while maintaining flexibility as new technologies, business models, and user needs emerge?

  23. Governance as a system Weill & Ross, 2004

  24. Agenda Welcome Purpose and Scope of the Governance Roadmap Workshop Background and Research on Governance How We Jumpstart the Planning Process Governance Examples What are Governance Functions? Broader Impacts & Linkages to Other Communities Governance Use Cases/Mental Exercises Community Discussion

  25. Jumpstarting the Planning Process Jim Bowring College of Charleston

  26. Inspiration If you don't have a plan, You can't change it !

  27. What is a Plan ?

  28. What do Plans have in Common? Written Beginning and end Changeable Measurable

  29. How to Start ?

  30. Practical Jumpstart Solutions Plenary → informed community Focus Group → summary document Town Hall → roadmap iterations

  31. Potential Focus Groups Software Governance Governance Standing Committee, i.e. what is the successor to this series of workshops? Mental Exercises Governance Principles What is Governance? – to clarify, management versus organization Broader Impacts and Participation Possibly focus on three distinct groups of Industry, International, and Government

  32. Collaborate ! Open and transparent Use collaboration tools Post EVERYTHING to http://earthcube.ning.com

  33. Agenda Welcome Purpose and Scope of the Governance Roadmap Workshop Background and Research on Governance How We Jumpstart the Planning Process Governance Examples What are Governance Functions? Governance Use Cases/Mental Exercises Broader Impacts & Linkages to Other Communities Community Discussion

  34. Governance Examples Mohan Ramamurthy Unidata

  35. Governance Examples • Domain Science Groups (e.g. IRIS, Unidata, UCAR, CUAHSI, IEDA) • IT Groups (e.g. W3C, XSEDE, Apache, and Slashdot) • Hybrid Domain/IT Groups (e.g. ESIP, OGC, DataONE) • Large Facilities (e.g. OOI, EarthScope, NEON)

  36. IRIS – US Array

  37. CUAHSI

  38. Unidata Policy Committee (Standing Committee) Users Committee (Standing Committee Implementation Working Group (early days of the program) Steering Committees (Ad-hoc committees)

  39. Do Plan OGC Organization Committees Standards Program Compliance & Testing Interoperability Program Domain WGs Standards WGs Board Architecture Board Staff CITE SC Team Engine Check Evolve Open Geospatial Consortium Outreach and Community Adoption Program (OCAP) Comm Training Marketing Testbeds Pilots Experiments

  40. Single PI, 5 Centers, and 12 partnering organizations • High-Performance Computing and Storage Services • High-Performance Remote Visualization and Data Analysis Services • Integrating Services • Coordination and Management Service • Technology Audit and Insertion Service • Advanced User Support Service • Training, Education and Outreach Service • Governance • XSEDE Advisory Board • User Advisory Committee • Service Providers Forum

  41. Sustainability/Funding Model

  42. Agenda Welcome Purpose and Scope of the Governance Roadmap Workshop Background and Research on Governance How We Jumpstart the Planning Process Governance Examples What are Governance Functions? Broader Impacts & Linkages to Other Communities Governance Use Cases/Mental Exercises Community Discussion

  43. Governance Functions Ilya Zaslavsky SDSC/UCSD + EarthCube Cross-Domain Interop Team

  44. EarthCube as a System of Systems • Several governance models? • For different purpose, different types of funding, different time horizons, different stakeholders, metrics  different functions • What are research scenarios and use cases that the EarthCube governance model should enable, and what is the process for expanding them? • What is the scope of EarthCube governance, and what is the process for determining and evolving it? • For individual research sites • For disciplinary data systems and large facilities • For managing cross-disciplinary interactions

  45. Vision of a reference architecture for EarthCube as is an integrated information system that includes research observatories generating large volumes of observations, domain systems that publish the data according to community conventions about data models, vocabularies and protocols, and cross-domain knowledge layer that includes federated catalogs, normalized and curated datasets integrating data from domain systems and observatories, vocabulary cross-walks, as well as social networking, governance and compute infrastructure.

  46. Functions - 1 • Policy formulation (e.g. wrt open source) and cost control • Conflict resolution and arbitration – at the boundaries of EarthCube subsystems, e.g. • When new scientific data types are developed and propagate to domain systems and to the knowledge integration layer • When sensors need to be configured or tuned from another • Data life cycle coordination across domains

  47. Functions - 2 • Standardization of services and encodings • Cross-domain interoperability management • For domain catalogs, vocabularies, services, information models  federated catalogs, vocabulary cross-walks, standard services, consensus information model profiles • Long-term preservation/curation/lifecycle management • Reference architecture management and evolution • Service-level agreements and other legal arrangements

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