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Data Mongers, you may be interested in this upcoming webinar:<br>
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style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We
are excited to continue the webinar series: Doing Geoscience
with EarthCube Tools, on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, at 2 pm EST
(11 am PST) with our guest Ilya Zaslavsky of the San Diego
Supercomputer Center on </span><span
style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">CINERGI:
Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geoscience
Interoperability.</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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is an EarthCube tool that enables and accelerates data
discovery and access across multiple disciplines. It is
currently being further developed to provide additional
significant capability, and serves some important functions
of the EarthCube Architecture being designed.</span></font></p>
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and event details here</span></a><span
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and links to</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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tools webinars and resources here</span></a><span
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The webinar is free and all are welcome.</span></font></p>
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style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">More
on the upcoming CINERGI presentation:</span></font></p>
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style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">CINERGI:
Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geoscience
Interoperability.</span></font></p>
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style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Discovering,
interpreting and re-using data across geoscience domains is
a core EarthCube challenge. Metadata is often inconsistent
and incomplete; repositories follow different domain
standards and semantics; many datasets aren’t registered in
catalogs and exist on individual web sites – these are some
of the key obstacles faced by researchers. CINERGI is an
EarthCube Building Block project (</span><a
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style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://earthcube.org/group/">http://earthcube.org/group/</a><wbr>cinergi</span></a><span
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to create technology components that enable
cross-disciplinary data discovery. Metadata descriptions
harvested from geoscience repositories and through community
contributions are automatically enhanced, which includes
generation of relevant keywords based on text analytics,
derivation of spatial extents, and validation of
organization names mentioned in the metadata. Automatic
generation of keywords, in turn, is based on a cross-domain
bridge ontology, which integrates several existing
geoscience ontologies and controlled vocabularies, and on
GeoSciGraph, a system for text parsing, vocabulary
management and semantic annotation. Once processed, the
metadata records are indexed and republished as
ISO-19115/19139 documents with embedded semantic references
to the ontologies integrated in CINERGI, along with
provenance information for each record, and made available
via a search portal and web service requests. The webinar
will describe the main system components (the metadata
augmentation pipeline; the underlying CINERGI ontology and
semantic services; services and user interfaces for resource
discovery and access; and accompanying provenance and
validation services), present the current state of the
system, and demonstrate its use in several cross-domain data
discovery use cases.</span></font></p>
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style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">More
on the EarthCube Tools series:</span></font></p>
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style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The
EarthCube Tools webinar series, organized by the Science
Committee of the NSF-sponsored EarthCube program, provides
practical demonstrations of how EarthCube projects can help
you to collect, access, share, and visualize geoscience
data. Each webinar begins with a showcase of an EarthCube
funded project followed by ample time for questions and
conversation. Wary of EarthCube jargon? Presenters will
describe their projects in plain English for scientists in
all disciplines who may be unfamiliar with EarthCube.
Here’s a chance for you (and your colleagues, team members,
and students) to learn about EarthCube and how it can help
to advance your scientific work. More information on the
webinar series is available</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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</span><span
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Archived video will be available on the website about one
week after the webinar.</span></font></p>
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Stace E. Beaulieu, Ph.D.
Senior Research Specialist
Biology Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stace@whoi.edu">stace@whoi.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.whoi.edu/website/sbeaulieu">http://www.whoi.edu/website/sbeaulieu</a>
Tel: 508.289.3536, Skype: stace.beaulieu</pre>
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