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Funding for ECID technology development comes from the
National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. Interested in ECID?
Join the ecid-support list by sending email to
majordomo@ncsa.uiuc.edu with the phrase "subscribe
ecid-support" in the body of the email. |
National environmental
observatories will soon provide large-scale data from diverse sensor networks
and community models. Much attention is focused on piping data from sensors
to archives and users; however, truly integrating these resources into the
everyday research activities of scientists and engineers across the community
and enabling their results and innovations to be brought back into the
observatory are also critical to long-term success of the observatories. The
Environmental Cyberinfrastructure Demonstrator (ECID) Cyberenvironment for
observatory-centric environmental research and education, under development
at the Cyberenvironments
incorporate collaboratory and grid technologies, web services, and other
cyberinfrastructure into an overall framework that balances the need for
efficient coordination with the ability to innovate. They are designed to
support the full scientific lifecycle, both at the level of individual
experiments as they move from data to workflows to publication, and at the
level of larger-scale collaboration, where new discoveries lead to additional
data, models, tools, and conceptual frameworks that augment and evolve
community-scale systems such as observatories. The ECID cyberenvironment currently
integrates five major components – a collaborative portal, workflow engine, event
manager, metadata repository, and social networking capabilities – that have
novel features inspired by the Cyberenvironment concept and by real-world
environmental research scenarios. |
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