Welcome to the Summer Meeting for the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)! The 2017 theme is Strengthening Ties Between Observations and User Communities. The theme is based on one of the goals in the 2015 - 2020 ESIP Strategic Plan, which provides a framework for ESIP’s activities over the next three years.
Many ESIP meeting attendees are members of several other informatics-related organizations, for example, AGU Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) Focus Group, Geological Society of America Geoinformatics Division, NOAA Environmental Data Management (EDM), NASA Earth Science Data System Working Groups (ESDSWG), USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI), Research Data Alliance (RDA), EarthCube, and Force11, each which host their own annual or biannual events. At the ESIP 2016 Summer meeting, participants at a working session identified actions that could reduce silo-ing and duplication of effort in these different organizations. One idea was to have leaders and members of multiple organizations meet once a year to discuss ways to coordinate and leverage their events and resources.
In this working session, we will build on last year’s work by discussing the upcoming schedule of meetings and events, identifying widely-applicable outputs to share (such as best practice and guidance documents), and setting future check-in dates to review progress and improvements.
