CHRONOS

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CHRONOS

• Cinzia Cervato, Doug Fils, Geoff Bohling, Pat
  Diver, Doug Greer, Brice Lambi, Josh Reed, and
  Xiaoyun Tang

Geoinformatics 2006, May 12, 2006
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Cyberinfrastructure Community Building
Education
CHRONOSs purpose

• Transforming Earth history research by seamlessly
  integrating geoscience databases and tools
• Three main initiatives
• cyberinfrastructure
• community building
• education

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CHRONOS Its about time!
Cyberinfrastructure Community Building
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• Time is the intellectual theme
• A team of geoscientists and IT specialists
  creating a cyberinfrastructure to deliver open
  access to a global federation of Earth history
  databases, tools, and services

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CHRONOSs stakeholders
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• Academic, government, and industrial scientists
• Autonomous databases, affiliated science
  initiatives, and data and tool contributors
• Educators, students, and policy makers

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Cyberinfrastructure Community Building
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Cyberinfrastructure activities

• Conceive, build, and support the robust system of
  integrated databases, tools, visualization, and
  services
• Integration of heterogeneous databases
• Database development
• Tool development
• Service development

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Hosted and federated databases
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Neptune
FAUNMAP
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IBMs Information Integrator for database
federation
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Multiproxy
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Aggregated results for taxonomy
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GIS Client
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Database development
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• HERMES for geochemical data
• Taxonomic dictionaries (foraminifera,
  graptolites, corals)
• 2,380,000 samples accessible through CHRONOS
  portal (as of May 8)

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Initial Toolkit
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PSICAT
CONOP9
ADP
TIS
Time Scale Creator
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PSICAT core/section logging and data capture in
one
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CONOP9 as webservice
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Build and involve the community
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• Foster the growth of the CHRONOS community by
  actively promoting the open participation of
  diverse groups of users, data providers, and
  other geoinformatics efforts

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Community activities
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• Build Awareness of CHRONOS (Industry,
  Conferences, Universities, K-12)
• Recruit Federated Databases
• Promote Communication among Geoscience
  Researchers
• Grow the User Base
• Collaborate with Parallel Efforts
• Coordinate Project Activities

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Partner science initiatives
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• ANDRILL www.andrill.org
• EARTHTIME www.earth-time.org
• GeoSystems www.geosystems.org

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Cyberinfrastructure Community Building
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• The newest geological drilling program for
  recovery of statigraphic records from the
  Antarctic region
• Investigate Antarctica's role in global
  environmental change over the past 65 million
  years

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National geoinfo alliances
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• GEON, CoreWall, PaleoBiology Database, Janus/ODP,
  SESAR, PaleoStrat, NMITA, etc.
• Open protocols and standards supporting the
  evolution from (service-oriented) architecture to
  (service-oriented) infrastructure for a global
  geoscience cyberinfrastructure

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International partnerships
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• International Commission Stratigraphy, CSIRO,
  Geoscience Australia, Natural History Museum
  London, New Zealand IGNS, IODP, Geol. Survey
  Canada, Pangaea, Snet and others
• www.igeoinfo.org

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CHRONOS as global service-enabler
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Give access to educational activities
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• Create an excitement for Earth history and
  geologic time through the implementation of
  human-computer interactions
• Activities
• Develop educational activities for different
  groups (Grades 5-12, undergraduates, informal)
• Increase diversity
• Collaborate with education groups and museums

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Summer 2006 EO activities
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• Summer internship program for advanced
  undergraduate and graduate students (June-July)
• Workshop to develop a package of on-line teaching
  activities using CHRONOS data and tools (June
  13-15, ISU and Carleton College)
• Annual retreat (August 18-19, Des Moines)

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