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Thursday, January 21, 2016Author(s):
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The EarthCube Leadership Council is seeking input and feedback on the EarthCube Roadmap from the broader EarthCube community through the end of February 2016. Click the links above to access the most recent copy of the document.
The Roadmap document describes a set of priority activities to fulfill the promise of EarthCube’s diverse components including scientific and technological objectives, educational aspirations, community organization and engagement principles, and governance structure. The Roadmap’s goals and action plans were developed by the Leadership Council through recommendations from the EarthCube community, including the governance teams and committees and working groups.
To give your feedback on the Roadmap, please join the conversation by adding your comments below. Please use the document's section and/or line numbers to reference your comments; all comments are publicly visible and will be considered by the Leadership Council.
Dear EarthCube Leadership Council,
Thank you for a very complete, informative, and well-written roadmap document, with exciting implications for the initiative. As a member of the Liaison Team, my only comment is for lines 549-553 which begins with "The Engagement Team and Liaison Team in EarthCube’s governance are expected to play a significant role in cultivating such partnerships by identifying potential collaborations, leading to the entrainment of innovative tools and data assets of importance...." Might it be appropriate there to include a footnoted reference to the "Mapping the Landscape" project of the Liaison team (e.g., http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/ec-story/ or more info at http://earthcube.org/group/liaison-team)? The team did put considerable effort into identifying and visualizing such potential collaborations. It would be nice to see that completed project made use of for its continued evolution.
Speaking of footnotes, a minor suggestion is to consider using URL shorteners such as bit.ly for the very long URLs in footnotes 5, 7, and 9. And when clicking on footnote 9, a "does not exist" error results.
Thanks again for an excellent document
Hi Dawn, thanks for your comments! Regarding the long URLs in some footnotes, both google docs and bitly (& most other shorteners) offer no commitment for permanence. We're working to get these reports from EarthCube WGs turned into pdf and uploaded to the EC document registry. Then a permanent link will be given that isn't too long, eg, footnote 10.
Cheers, David
Dear Leadership Committee:
A few minor editorial and content comments:
Line 56: remove the "," after systems.
Line 79: change "and but" to either "and" or "but"
Line 91: Employ "an" interative ...
Line 103: Perhaps turn this into a list by adding ":" after activities, removing "from", and listing each activity with a "," between instead of making some of them a range with "to/from".
Line 108: lead --> led
Lines 111-114: I'd argue that the Science Committee is also participating in these activities, particularly through the organization of Science Webinars. Line 111-112 could read, "EarthCube’s Engagement Team (ET), Liaison Team (LT), and Science Committee (SC) are promoting the growth of the EarthCube community." Lines 112-114 could read "These groups carry responsibilities for defining strategies and identifying opportunities to ensure community engagement (ET), linking the activities of the wider EarthCube effort to relevant organizations and initiatives globally (LT, SC), and disseminating information about new EarthCube cybertools to the broader EarthCube community (SC, LT, ET)."
Line 116: web site --> website
129: add "," after by-laws to be consistent with the rest of the document's list format
180: recommendation to change globally the term "dark data" to "hidden data". If there is need to transition from "dark" to "hidden" then change "dark data" to "dark/hidden data".
473: Add bullet point about Science Webinars implemented by the Science Committee to disseminate information about funded projects and new cyber tools to the broader community.
Best regards,
Sarah
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D. Sarah Stamps, PhD
Assistant Professor
www.tectonophysics.geos.vt.edu
Virginia Tech
Department of Geosciences
1405 Perry Street (MC0420)
Blacksburg, VA 24060 USA
http://earthlexicon.sdsc.edu/wiki/Main_Page.
Thanks Steve!
To Roadmap editors: this is for the missing link in line 489, and actually updates the previous link for the EarthCube wiki in Roadmap drafts.
Thanks David!
The following WG reports need to be converted to pdf, uploaded to the EarthCube document registry, and given permanent links.
Footnote 5, linked from line 206 - TAC Gap Analysis Report
Footnote 7, from line 219 - (a) Architecture WG Report and (b) Architecture Roadmap
Footnote 8, from line 255 - Use Cases WG link is to a permanent page, but the report links on that page are to google docs
Footnote 9, from line 291 - Testbed WG report
BTW, the Standards WG Report (footnote 10 from line 315) shows another way to capture the final report -- full text brought into an EarthCube.org workspace page.