Remote Instrumentation & Data Visualizations Working Group

[James Werle <>]

This is an excellent first step in defining the scientific
communities.  Thank you Jason for pulling this together.

>I will need some insider knowledge on  what the goals are for specific 
>items.  Ex: 'GIS' data was mentioned, and I have some contacts that may fit 
>this >need, but it would help to know what specific purpose the GIS data 
>would serve.  Would the focus be on the people who are collecting the data 
>and making >it available, or more for groups that are using the raw data to 
>do interesting things?  The same question can be applied to other groups.

I would imagine the scientists who are using the data and
technologists who are making the data collection possible are likely
in very close collaboration with each other.  If this is the case, it
probably doesn't matter who engage for these initial interviews.
There could also be cases where we have K-20 folks who will want to
work with the technologists and others who would want to collaborate
with the scientists doing cool things with the data.  I'm not sure we
want or need to predict in advance exactly how the use cases are going
to play out.  What we certainly can do as a group is brainstorm some
of the likely K-20 use scenarios in each of the instrument categories
but not limit ourselves to these.  Other thoughts?

Looking forward to our discussion this morning.
James


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Jason Zurawski 
<>
 wrote:
> Hi All;
>
> Quick update on my actions from last time.
>
> 1) Identify communities to approach
>
> Attached is a document that outlines the scientific communities that
> Internet2 has worked with in the past.  We still maintains ties to technical
> staff and in many cases scientists within each but I have not done any
> reaching out yet.  For today the group should discuss which of these
> communities would be of interest, and I can start the process of feeling
> around for the specific PIs to identify for the surveys.
>
> A questions I had as I was doing this exercise is more domain specific.  The
> list of categories on the wiki was helpful, but not being present for the
> early discussions within this group I will need some insider knowledge on
> what the goals are for specific items.  Ex: 'GIS' data was mentioned, and I
> have some contacts that may fit this need, but it would help to know what
> specific purpose the GIS data would serve.  Would the focus be on the people
> who are collecting the data and making it available, or more for groups that
> are using the raw data to do interesting things?  The same question can be
> applied to other groups.
>
> 2) International Science
>
> Our International coordination is in transition right now, Ana Preston (some
> of you may know her) will be taking over the majority of this roll in
> addition to some other things.  She and her staff will be happy to help if
> there are needs in this area.  Her specific suggestion was preparing some
> sort of communication that can be sent to international networking partners
> to pass along to scientists they work with.
>
> 3) Survey Tools
>
> I think relayed this already, but Internet2 has an account on SurveyMonkey
> that is available for groups to use.  If the google doc solution works, this
> is moot.
>
> Thanks;
>
> -jason
>



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