RCN SEN: Building a Sediment

Experimentalist Network

Leslie Hsu (IEDA, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)

Wonsuck Kim (UT Austin)

Brandon McElroy (U Wyoming)

Raleigh Martin (UCLA)

Kimberly Litwin Miller (UT Austin)

Charles Nguyen, Danny Im, Gian Carlo De Guzman (UMN)

January 2015, EarthCube C4P Webinar

1. Sediment experiments are unique

2. Expectations about research data are evolving

1. New technologies create

more data

2. Funding agencies want

data management plans

3. Journals want links to

archived full datasets

4. Better attribution is enabled

by new metrics for data

citation

J. Eggenhuisen

Data Stratigraphy

3. Grand challenges in experimental

geomorphology require data syntheses

reproducibility scalingautogenic vs. allogenic processes

Community experiment at

Stratodynamics 2013

scaling

We need SEN.SEN’s goal is to integrate the efforts of sediment experimentalists and build

a knowledge base for guidance on best practices for data collection and

management, and to be the liaison to cyberinfrastructure and geoinformatics

communities.

The experimental life cycle

parallels the data life cycle.

SEN activities are designed to

help at each step.

S. Ahn, in

Hsu et al.,

accepted

SEN supports researchers

throughout the

data lifecycle

Three components of SEN

SEN-EC Experimental

Collaboratories

• Facilitate collaboration

between experimental

laboratories

• Develop collaborative

infrastructure

• Broadcast experiments

• Distributed experiments

SEN-KB Knowledge

Base

• Develop online resources

for experimental data

management

• SEN-Wiki

• Recruit datasets for

inclusion in online

repositories

SEN-ED Education &

Data Standards

• Facilitate community

discussion of data

practices and standards

• Disseminate guidelines

• Provide training about data

management and sharing

Town Halls – to facilitate community discussion

2012: Surface Process Experiments –

A Community Discussion

2013: Building a Sediment

Experimentalist Network

2014: Publishing and Sharing

Earth Surface Data

SEN-ED

Workshops – to learn and experiment together

Dec 2012: End-User workshop

Experimental Stratigraphy (UT

Austin)

Aug 2013: Stratodynamics

(Nagasaki U.)

Nov 2014: Experimental Life

Cycle workshop (Utrecht U.)

SEN-ED

Summer Institute Classes– to reach students

SEN-ED

Proposed metadata profile for experiments- to suggest a guideline for community discussion

SEN-ED

Basic information:

Following DataCite

Discipline-specific information:

For reuse of the dataset

Hsu et al., accepted

SEN Wiki - to make data and methods discoverable

SEN-KB

SEN Sediment and Instrument Lists- for knowledge transfer

Where have others bought sediment and instruments?

goo.gl/NUA5mS (Tabs 1 and 2)

SEN-KB

Community Experiments - to create shared experiences and datasets

SEN-EC

Broadcast and Distributed experiments- to test reproducibility and gain efficiency

SEN-EC

Newsletters, Blog,

Social Media – to inform

SEN Activity Summary

Listen to needs Gather information Share with everyone

SEN and EarthCube

SEN + GeoSoft = encouraging best practices for software

SEN + CINERGI = cataloging SEN-related resources

SEN + Geosemantic Framework = better documented datasets and connections to models

What defines success for SEN?

• SEN information is easily discoverable and accessible:

Earth surface process community knows where to go to find

information and resources on sediment experiments

• SEN and CI know each others’ capabilities and needs:

Domain scientist knowledge of cyberinfrastructure resources much

higher than without EarthCube involvement, CI has a use case

• SEN begins a culture change of sharing and documenting data:

New experimentalists expect to share information about their

experiments

Challenges to reaching SEN’s goals

• Reaching our audience and achieving critical mass for sharing

• Long-term storage of large volume datasets

• Coming to consensus, agreeing on shared formats

• Making time for SEN in the research workflow

• Sustainability of SEN activities

Contact us!

sedimentexp@gmail.com

@sedimentexp

http://workspace.earthcube.org/sen

And many thanks to:

• Kimberly Litwin Miller (UT Austin/U Wyoming)

• Danny Im (UMN)

• Gian Carlo De Guzman (UMN)