Cyberscience, Software Engineering & Automated Workflows in Geoscience: Perspectivies from EARTHTIME and GeoChron, by Jim Bowring, College of Charleston
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Talk at the EarthCube End-User Domain Workshop for Rock Deformation and Mineral Physics Research. By Jim Bowring, College of Charleston
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Cyberscience, Software Engineering & Automated Workflows in Geoscience: Perspectivies from EARTHTIME and GeoChron, by Jim Bowring, College of Charleston
- 1. Automating Workflow from Raw Data to Repository: Collaborative Software Engineering James F. Bowring Computer Science Department College of Charleston EarthCube End-User Domain Workshop for Rock Deformation & Mineral Physics Alexandria VA, 13 November 2013
- 2. Roadmap Background EarthCube EARTHTIME as Mainstream Science Software Chasm CIRDLES as Mainstream Solution Provider Thoughts Questions 13 November 2013 Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria 2
- 3. Background College of Charleston: Teaching / Research Software Design / Engineering / Testing EarthCube: Governance & Software EARTHTIME: Collaborator CIRDLES: PI 13 November 2013 Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria 3
- 4. 13 November 2013 Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria Photo courtesy of C. Frank StarmerJuly 2005 4
- 5. EarthCube Structure & Tectonic s Geodesy Solar Terrestria l Aeronom y Meteorology Magnetospheric Physics PaleoClimate Solid and Aqueous Geochem -istry Space Weather Climate & Large Scale Dynamic s NCAR Atmospheric Chemistr y EarthCube CI Geobiolo gy & Geo Ed & PaleoenWorkforc tology e Geophysi Training Cryosphe cs & Sediment re & Ice Geody-ology & Dynamic namics Stratis graphy Critical Hydrolog Zone & y Soil Science Geomorphology Bioinformati cs Physical Oceanography Biologica l Oceanography Biology Ecosyste ms Software & Modeling High Perf Computin g Semantic s& Ontologi es 13 November 2013 Igneous Petrology & Volcanology Marine Geology Ocean Drilling & Engineering Chemical Oceanography Algorith ms & Data Mining Ocean Educatio n Marine Geophysi cs Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria 5
- 6. Goal: calibrate earth history and develop the geochronological techniques necessary to produce high precision dates Requires: robust software for data reduction, analysis, and archiving to support both science and education 13 November 2013 Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria 6
- 7. EARTHTIME Software Requirements open-source applications for full real-time interactive data reduction and uncertainty propagation provide extensible plug-n-play models provide graphical and statistical tools produce publication-ready artifacts automatically capture meta-data produce a standardized & extensible record for transport to / from archival databases 13 November 2013 Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria 7
- 8. Software Chasm Kelly: domain-independent software engineering solutions serve to isolate the scientific-computing community [IEEE Software 2007] Wilson: treat scientific software with scientific rigor [American Scientist 2006] 13 November 2013 Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria 8
- 9. CIRDLES Cyber Infrastructure Research and Development Lab for the Earth Sciences CIRDLES.org Collaborative domain-specific software engineering research to produce tools that advance science 13 November 2013 Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria 9
- 10. Collaborative Development Process 13 November 2013 Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria 10
- 11. Long Tail Solution 13 November 2013 Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria 11
- 12. Archive with a Click ! 13 November 2013 Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria 12
- 13. Thoughts: Automating Workflow from Raw Data to Repository EarthCube must serve scientists and science Collaborative Software / CI Engineering Long-term support for software products Less tedium, more science Semantic Web Open World Assumption 13 November 2013 Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria 13
- 14. Questions ? 13 November 2013 Jim Bowring EarthCube Alexandria 14