17 February: Luca Trani Modern science entails crossing boundaries and bridging borders inter- and intra-disciplines, therefore it requires proper tooling and platforms to promote and facilitate intellectual collaboration and information exchange between practitioners. We introduce the case for building holistic views that leverage metadata catalogues and existing heterogeneous resources in the solid-Earth science domain. As multi-disciplinary, multi-organisational and global collaboration is necessary to address today’s challenges, canonical representations can provide a focus for collaboration and conceptual tools for agreeing directions. Such collaborations can be fostered and formalised by rallying intellectual effort into the design of novel scientific catalogues and the services that support them. Catalogues enabling holistic views require technical and organisational agreements with the underlying infrastructures, adopting standards and best practices for data management and stewardship (e.g., FAIR principles) [Wilkinson et al., 2016] facilitates these interactions. We report our experience paving the way to such principles in the seismological domain. Our contribution addresses seismic waveform description and discovery leading to a new seismological service and presents the key steps in its design, implementation and adoption. This service, named WFCatalog [Trani et al., 2016, submitted], which stands for waveform catalogue, accommodates features of seismological waveform data. We present an example of the benefits generated by involving cross-disciplinary skills (e.g., data and domain expertise) from the early stages of design, and by sustaining the engagement with the target community throughout the delivery and deployment process. Also, we provide an overview of the complex environment wherein this endeavour is scoped and discuss the related challenges. Bio Luca Trani is a part-time PhD student in CISA under the supervision of Malcolm Atkinson. In his day job he works as a researcher and senior advisor at the R&D Seismology and Acoustics division of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). His main research focus is about how to build enhanced data management, curation and publication services by using catalogues and metadata. Luca has several years of experience working at the interface between Computer and Earth sciences. He collaborated in various infrastructure projects and international initiatives targeting different scientific communities. Currently he contributes to the design and realisation of the technical architecture of the European Plate Observing Systems (EPOS – www.epos-eu.org) and to the EUDAT project (eudat.eu). He is the present chair of the ORFEUS European Integrated Data Archive Technical Commission where he coordinates the technical developments of a federation of 11 European seismological data centres. Feb 17 2017 10.00 - 11.00 17 February: Luca Trani Building holistic views for solid-Earth science IF - 2.33
17 February: Luca Trani Modern science entails crossing boundaries and bridging borders inter- and intra-disciplines, therefore it requires proper tooling and platforms to promote and facilitate intellectual collaboration and information exchange between practitioners. We introduce the case for building holistic views that leverage metadata catalogues and existing heterogeneous resources in the solid-Earth science domain. As multi-disciplinary, multi-organisational and global collaboration is necessary to address today’s challenges, canonical representations can provide a focus for collaboration and conceptual tools for agreeing directions. Such collaborations can be fostered and formalised by rallying intellectual effort into the design of novel scientific catalogues and the services that support them. Catalogues enabling holistic views require technical and organisational agreements with the underlying infrastructures, adopting standards and best practices for data management and stewardship (e.g., FAIR principles) [Wilkinson et al., 2016] facilitates these interactions. We report our experience paving the way to such principles in the seismological domain. Our contribution addresses seismic waveform description and discovery leading to a new seismological service and presents the key steps in its design, implementation and adoption. This service, named WFCatalog [Trani et al., 2016, submitted], which stands for waveform catalogue, accommodates features of seismological waveform data. We present an example of the benefits generated by involving cross-disciplinary skills (e.g., data and domain expertise) from the early stages of design, and by sustaining the engagement with the target community throughout the delivery and deployment process. Also, we provide an overview of the complex environment wherein this endeavour is scoped and discuss the related challenges. Bio Luca Trani is a part-time PhD student in CISA under the supervision of Malcolm Atkinson. In his day job he works as a researcher and senior advisor at the R&D Seismology and Acoustics division of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). His main research focus is about how to build enhanced data management, curation and publication services by using catalogues and metadata. Luca has several years of experience working at the interface between Computer and Earth sciences. He collaborated in various infrastructure projects and international initiatives targeting different scientific communities. Currently he contributes to the design and realisation of the technical architecture of the European Plate Observing Systems (EPOS – www.epos-eu.org) and to the EUDAT project (eudat.eu). He is the present chair of the ORFEUS European Integrated Data Archive Technical Commission where he coordinates the technical developments of a federation of 11 European seismological data centres. Feb 17 2017 10.00 - 11.00 17 February: Luca Trani Building holistic views for solid-Earth science IF - 2.33
