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An SSI Cyber-Informatics Development Plan
Participating institutions:
University of Maine, University of Southern Maine
Team Members:
- Kate Beard, Spatial Information Science and Engineering, UMaine
- Charles Colgan, Muskie School of Public Service, USM
- Shaleen Jain, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UMaine
- Brian McGill, Biology and Ecology & SSI, UMaine
- Bruce Segee, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMaine
The generation, use, and management of data constitute both a critical challenge and a unique opportunity for Sustainability Science. Data-related challenges stem from diversity, volume, formats, streaming, and versioning, to name of few. Data undergirds efforts that seek to model, diagnose, and predict the trajectory of complex, coupled natural-human systems—a central thrust within Sustainability Science research. In recognition of the considerations noted above, SSI researchers plan to pursue an integrative research strategy that involves:
- efforts to maximize the efficacy of computational resources for data-related research to enhance and complement the current research portfolio within the SSI,
- proactive coordination and initiation of collaborative efforts across various research projects within SSI and the state of Maine to lower the threshold related to data search, access, processing (format, resolution etc.), and archiving, and
- development, testing, and implementation of a database management backbone using appropriate database software and hardware,
- development of a metadata catalog and data curation tools that will aid metadata generation,
- development of a project-wide ontology that seeks to systematize the relationships between knowledge across various domains and their linkages to data,
- support for scientific workflows that will allow SSI projects to link various data to high performance computational and analytical tools, and
- investigate the potential for web-based modeling, data analysis and visualization tools that allow user interaction, gaming, and shared vision planning.
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