[Data-Mongers] EarthCube Tools webinar on Jan. 20th - CINERGI: Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geoscience Interoperability

[Stace Beaulieu]

Data Mongers, you may be interested in this upcoming webinar:


> 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 
> CINERGI: Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geoscience 
> Interoperability.CINERGI <http://earthcube.org/group/cinergi>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.
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> Findcall and event details here 
> <https://www.earthcube.org/event/webinar-series-doing-geoscience-earthcube-tools>and 
> links toall tools webinars and resources here 
> <https://www.earthcube.org/workspace/science-committee/webinar-series-doing-geoscience-earthcube-tools>. 
> The webinar is free and all are welcome.
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> More on the upcoming CINERGI presentation:
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> CINERGI: Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geoscience 
> Interoperability.
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> 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 
> (http://earthcube.org/group/cinergi 
> <http://earthcube.org/group/cinergi>) 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.
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> More on the EarthCube Tools series:
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> 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 availablehere 
> <http://earthcube.org/workspace/science-committee/webinar-series-doing-geoscience-earthcube-tools>. 
> Archived video will be available on the website about one week after 
> the webinar.
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Stace E. Beaulieu, Ph.D.
Senior Research Specialist
Biology Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
stace at whoi.edu
http://www.whoi.edu/website/sbeaulieu
Tel: 508.289.3536, Skype: stace.beaulieu

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