Introduction to the Arctic Observing Summit WG 4

Peter L. Pulsifer, PhDAOS Working Group 4

Associate Professor, GCRC, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Research Scientist, NSIDC, CIRES, University of Colorado

Chair, IASC-SAON Arctic Data Committee ; Technical Lead, CCADI

AOS

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Review of Recent Activities

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Data Sharing: Cooperation from Local to Global

• Significant progress made since International Polar Year

• Framework for cooperation exists

• Recent collaboration being leveraged to establish concrete “architecture”

• All perspectives and actors must be included

Indigenous Knowledge and Information Systems

• Growing group actively working to share Indigenous Knowledge, information and data

• Progress needed on bridging worldviews, concepts and semantics represented in information systems

• Indigenous Peoples must lead engagement and work with their knowledge – information sovereignty important

https://www.smartice.org/

http://trailmarksys.com/

http://nunaliit.org/

http://www.inuitknowledge.ca/

http://www.arcticcbm.org/index.html

http://ittaq.ca/http://eloka-arctic.org/

http://www.inuitcircumpolar.com/community-based-monitoring.html

Mapping the Polar Data Ecosystem

Visualization & data courtesy Arctic Data Committee; P. Pulsifer; Polder ; R. Duerr

https://lod-cloud.net/

Pulsifer, P.L. Kontar, Y., Berkman, P.A., Taylor, D.R.F. (2019). Chapter 12. Information Ecology to Map the Arctic Information Landscape. In Sustainability of Shared Marine Regions. Volume 1. Governing Arctic Seas: Regional Lessons from the Bering Strait and Barents Sea, edited by Oran R.Young, P.A. Berkman, P.A. and Alexander N. Vylegzhanin. Springer.

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Key Event Timeline

IPY WS ‘06

SAO

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S ‘10

IPY AD

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S ‘12

NSF PolarCyber

WS ‘13

PDF I ‘13

AO

S White Paper ‘13

DSJ A

DCN

Artcicle

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PDF II ‘15

Response to ASD

I RFI ‘16O

GC-A

SDI Pilot ‘16

Frascati Interop WS ‘16

Requirements D

oc ‘17CPD

W II ‘17

PDPS ‘18

ASSW

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SM D

eliverable ‘18PD

SAW ‘18

PDF III ‘19

AO

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C Formed ‘14)

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DC/SCA

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S/RDA

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Multiple IPY

Events ‘07-’09

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Analysis of Community Reports• Report 1: IPY Data Management Workshop (2006)

• Report 2: SAON Data Management Workshop Report (2010)

• Report 3: IPY Arctic Data Coordination Network Workshop minutes (2012)

• Report 4: Report on Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for Polar Sciences (2013)

• Report 5: International Forum on Polar Data Activities in Global Data Systems Communique (2013)

• Report 6: Second Polar Data Forum Communique (2015)

• Report 7: Data Management for Arctic Observing: A Community White Paper (2013)

• Report 8: Response to the Open Geospatial Consortium Request for Information on Arctic Spatial Data by the Polar Data Community (2016)

• Report 9: OGC Arctic Spatial Data Pilot Phase 1 Report (2016)

• Report 10: Polar Data and Platform Interoperability Requirements (2017)

• Report 11: Developing an architecture for an international, interconnected arctic data system, SAON (2018)

• Report 12: Report of the 2nd Canadian Polar Data Workshop (2017)

• Report 13: Summary Report: Polar Data and Systems Architecture Workshop (2018)

• Report 14: Polar Data Planning Summit - Context and Scenarios Minutes (2018)

• IPY DIS Reports pending analysis

Report 1

Report 2

Report 3

Report 4

Report 5

Report 6

Report 7

Report 8

Report 9

Report 10

Report 11

Report 12

Report 13

Report 14

Non-Technical Themes Subthemes

Community Building x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

Data Managers x x x x x x

Inclusion x x x x x

Shared Terminology x x xCaaS x x

Education, Outreach, and Culture Change x x x x x x x x x x x

Funding x x x x x x x x x x x

Engaging Arctic Indigenous People x x x x x x x x x x

Governance x x x x x x x x x x

Best Practices x x x x x x x

Understanding Stakeholder Needs x x x

Technical Themes Subthemes

Interoperability x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

Standards x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

Data Access x x x x x x x x x x x x x

Data Archiving x x x x x x x x x x x

Data Discovery x x x x x x x x x x

Metadata x x x x x x x x x

Data Publication and Attribution x x x x x x x x x x

Data Integration x x x x x x x x

Data Quality and Integrity x x x x x x x

Data Rescue x x x x x x

Controlled Semantics and Vocabularies x x x x x

ArchitectureData Platforms x x x

CaaS x x

DaaS x x x x x

InaaS x x x

SaaS x x x x

IaaS x x

Data Visualization x x x x x x x

Data Processing and Storage x x x x 7

Key Themes IdentifiedSocial and Organizational• Community Building and Coordination (includes sub-themes, e.g. Data Managers, Mediators, Coordinators)• Funding• Engaging Arctic Indigenous Peoples• Governance• Education, Outreach, Culture Change

Technical• Interoperability• Standards• Data Discovery (federated search)• Emergence of Data Platforms and E-Science• Data Access• Data Archiving

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Current Activities

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http://arcticdc.org AOS

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Many Partners• WMO/GCW• ArcticSDI• Indigenous organizations• Arctic Council WGs• EU Arctic Cluster• GEO (CRI, ArcticGEOSS)• OBIS/GBIF (e.g. domain/disciplinary)• WDS, RDA, CODATA• CCADI• SIOS• US AON, NSF and related• …• ENTITIES NOT YET CONNECTED!

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Many Movements: “FAIR” Data

● Findable ● Accessible● Interoperable ● Reusable ● “FAIR” principles

https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FAIR_data_principles.jpg12

Many Movements: CARE Principles https://www.gida-global.org/care

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Many Funded Projects and Programs

https://arcticdata.io/https://ccadi.ca/

https://nsidc.org/https://catalog-intaros.nersc.no/

Many others…

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Polar Data Forum Series https://polar-data-forum.org/

Photo credits Marten Tacoma15

Activities: Community Building and Broader Context

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Activities: POLDER (Federated Search) https://polder.info/

https://polar-data-forum.org/workshops-hackathons/enhancing-polar-federated-search-hackathon/

https://ccadi.ca/third-canadian-polar-data-workshop

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Activities: Semantics

https://arcticdc.org/activities/core-projects/vocabularies-and-semantics-wg

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Key Outcomes from PDF III

• Need for continued community building:• Preparation for AOS ; engagement in ROADS process etc.

• Federated search• Advancement of concrete technical outputs. • Refinement of papers

• Semantics• Connection to federated search• Continued work of Semantics Working Group

• Platforms and model-based science• Situate these platforms within the data ecosystem

https://arcticdc.org/activities/core-projects/vocabularies-and-semantics-wg

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Next Steps

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Arctic Observing Summit - Sub-Theme 4

• https://arcticobservingsummit.org/aos-2020

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AOS Sub-theme 4 Objectives

1. Review and confirm priorities based on past/current activities2. Integrate submitted white papers (WPs)3. Discuss and establish strategies and methods to address WP sub-

themes – prime activity in WG 4 sessions4. Draft statement similar to AOS 2018

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ASM2 Deliverable Statement

CO-OPERATION IN ARCTIC SCIENCE – CHALLENGES AND JOINT ACTIONS

Report of the 2nd Arctic Science Ministerial

Berlin, Germany, 25–26 October 2018

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White Paper: Advances in Autonomous Sea Ice Mass Balance ObservationCameron J. Planck

• SUB-THEME : DESIGNING END-TO-END SYSTEMS• Autonomous sea ice mass balance observation instrument - SIMB3• Directly and independently measure sea snow/ice surface, bottom position, air temperature

and barometric pressure, vertical temperature profile from the air, through the snow/ice, and into the ocean (2 cm resolution), and GPS location are also included

• Data transmission at user defined intervals (usually one hour) is achieved anywhere in the world via the Iridium satellite network

• Creates a CSV file, and hosts it to a web-accessible server for access by the end user. • How do we optimize our data hosting framework to be maximally accessible, standardized,

and efficient? What form should the data be in for maximum efficacy? Should these data be integrated in a larger data framework, and if so, which one?

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The Arctic Biodiversity Data Service (ABDS) –ensuring archiving and access to biodiversity dataTom Barry, Holmgrímur Helgasson, Tom Christensen , Kari Fannar Larusson

SUB-THEME : ENSURING CONNECTION TO DOMAIN-BASED SYSTEMS• Online, interoperable data management system for biodiversity data generated

via the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)• Facilitate access, integration, analysis and display of biodiversity information for

scientists, practitioners, managers, policy makers and others working to understand, conserve and manage the Arctic's wildlife and ecosystems.• Facilitates data discovery and access, increased understanding; more informed

and rapid decision-making; and ongoing research.

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Copernicus needs for Arctic In Situ dataHenrik Steen Andersen

SUB-THEME : DOCUMENTING DATA SYSTEM ; ESTABLISHING STABLE PROGRAMMES• Copernicus Services and Space Component deliver a wide range of

data and products with relevance for the Arctic region• Includes related in-situ• Requires timely, available, high quality data• Study of available to Copernicus programme• Identification of gaps ; existing but unavailable data ; do not fit

requirements (timeliness, quality, metadata)

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Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Modeling forinvestigation of permafrost disturbance in the ArcticIvan Sudakov

[Withdrawn but available] SUB-THEME : INCORPORATING MODEL OUTPUT & NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND METHODS• Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of machine learning is providing

novel approaches for studying systems undergoing critical transitions• Algorithms need to move beyond data mining• AI sensors are analyzing remote sensing and field data and feeding

the data to a stochastic ecosystem model• Model predicts critical transitions and sends the information back to

AI to evaluate a risk of collapse in the complex soil system

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Optimizing Arctic Observing Through Interoperable Information Sharing Across NetworksWilliam F. Manley1, Allison G. Gaylord2, and Craig E. Tweedie3

SUB-THEME: DOCUMENTING OBSERVING SYSTEM ; DESIGNING END-TO-END SYSTEMS• A fundamental challenge exists for IAON assessment, planning,

integration, and synthesis: documenting the system• Gap analysis? Nature of sensors? Capabilities?• Requires consistent, system level metadata at:

• Network-level ; project-level; site-level

• Different but complementary to metadata describing data• Vocabularies (semantics) required

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AOS Sub-theme 4 Objectives

1. Review and confirm priorities based on past/current activities2. Integrate submitted white papers (WPs)3. Discuss and establish strategies and methods to address WP sub-

themes – prime activity in WG 4 sessions4. Draft statement similar to AOS 2018

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Please join us at AOS 2020!

DISCUSSION: FEEDBACK AND SUGGESTIONS WELCOME

https://aos2020agenda.org/

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