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CD: Initial ideas/approaches for EarthCube Enterprise architecture

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Conceptual Designs

Initial planning for Enterprise Architecture

– CI Architecture Teams– Understand the landscape of existing

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– Output Conceptual Design Reports– Engage end users – Presented to other EarthCubers– Discussion about different approaches

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• An initial conceptual design phase will be followed by refinement based on user requirements and assessment, followed by the beginning of the implementation phase.

• This level of participation in the development of the architecture is essential to establish an initial scope that is appropriate to meet the initial needs of the end users, and connecting technologies useful to geosciences researchers and educators into the architectural framework.

Architecture ChallengesDetermining the overall technological architecture of EarthCube will be difficult, because: 1) there are many competing approaches;2) there are significant legacy systems constituting the fabric of geosciences, and 3) there is a diversity and complexity of the information about the Earth system that

needs to be linked in a knowledge environment. 4) the scope of the EarthCube component of infrastructure needs to be determined

by the community

The strategy to determine architecture for EarthCube is composed of several elements which include: 5) the establishment of a process for development of the innovative EarthCube

architecture guided, evaluated, and refined by end-users; 6) the use of a stepwise process of selection based on merit, feasibility, and

experience-based competence.