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PV2018 Conference - Adding value and preserving data

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This conference is an opportunity to explore issues of data management planning and archive appraisal.

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The PV 2018 Conference welcomes you to its 9th edition, to be held 15th – 17th May 2018 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Space Cluster (UK ), hosted by the UK Space Agency and jointly organised by STFC, NCEO and the Satellite Applications Catapult.

For its ninth edition, the conference series moves to UKSA at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory part of the Harwell Space Cluster in the UK to continue addressing prospects in the domain of data preservation, stewardship and value adding of scientific data and research related information.

An end-to-end management approach for the long-term data preservation is key to ensure that there is no loss of information and data. It also entails the access to the archived data – including discovery, metadata, formats and interoperability considerations with the relevant standards – as well as the curation processes aimed at improving the information content and the usability of the archived data. In addition to emergent standards technologies and best practice, we would like to use this conference as an opportunity to explore issues of data management planning and archive appraisal.

We are also entering the era of big data; for this conference year, we would like to extend a special invite to large-scale scientific archives so we can facilitate discussion of emergent issues across scientific domains. As we move to a new and exciting technology age, we are seeing large-scale collaborations occurring on state of art virtual research environments and novel collaborative infrastructures. We would invite participation from projects, organisations or individuals developing novel data services within or as a result of these environments. This includes smaller bespoke archives wishing to integrate with larger data holdings to generate targeted knowledge and data services.

Time

Tuesday 15th May

08:00 - 09:00 Coffee and Registration outside Pickavance Lecture Theatre
09:00 - 09:30 Introduction to PV2018 Tony Hey Conference Chair,  Esther Conway Head of Programme Committee and Chris Mutlow Director of RAL Space (Pickavance)
09:30 - 10:00 Keynote: Beth Greenaway UKSA (Pickavance)
10:00 - 10:30 "Minute Madness" presentation of posters and demos (Pickavance) - Harald Rothfuss EUMETSAT
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Posters and Demos (R18)
11:00 - 12:00 Session 1A (Pickavance): Chair Harald Rothfuss - EUMETSAT Session 2A (CR12/13): Chair Christophe Arviset - ESA ESAC

JASMIN, Providing a platform to support Data Analysis and the Creation of Virtual Research Environments

Phillip Kershaw

Giving access and value added services to CDPP historic data sets

Danièle Boucon

A Distributed Analytics Framework for Large-scale Heterogeneous Geoscience Data

Kwo-Sen Kuo

Using machine learning to extract data from unstructured research data

Thomas Parsons

Data Stewardship Reference Lifecycle

Iolanda Maggio

MASER: A Toolbox for low frequency radio astronomy

Baptiste Cecconi

12:00 -13:15

Lunch Posters and Demos (R18)

13:15 -14:15

Session 2B (Pickavance): Chair Alison Waterfall - CEDA

Session 1B (CR12/13): Chair Brian Matthews - STFC Scientific Computing Department

Developing an Open Data Portal for the ESA Climate Change Initiative

Phillip Kershaw

OAIS proposed new concepts

David Giaretta

Enhancing access to environmental research data for a wider user community

Matthew Fry

ESA Data Preservation System

Iolanda Maggio

Policy, infrastructure, skills and incentives driving African data sharing: the African Open Science Platform Project 

Dr Tshiamo Motshegwa

British Geological Survey (BGS) Practices in Data Curation

Jaana Pinnick

14:15 -14:30

Short Break

14:30 -15:30

Session 2C (Pickavance): Chair Mark Jarman - Satellite Applications Catapult

Session 1C (CR12/13): Chair Thomas Stein - NASA Planetray Data System

Pioneering Steps towards Use of Data-cubes in the Global Earth Observation System of Systems

Paulo Sacramento

Data Policy of Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) at JAXA

Ken Ebiswa

Data Cube as a National Geo-spatial Information System

Simon Reid

Developing improved workflows  and tools for preserving  and exploiting environmental research data – a case study from the NERC National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC)

Andrew Riddick

The AgroMet Data Cube: Developing Smart Data Access for Pest Risk Research and forecasting

Taylor Day

A Standard Reference Model for Planetary Science Data Archives

John Hughes

15:30 -16:00

Coffee Posters and Demos (R18)

16:00 - 16:15

Short walk to Catapult

16:15-17:15

Data Innovation and Exploitation event at the Satellite Applications Catapult with talks fom:

Satellite Applications Catapult - Stuart Martin

Hartree Centre  - Michael Gleaves

ESA BIC - Sue O'Hare

17:15 - 18:15

Drinks reception and networking session at the Satellite Applications Catapult

18:15 - 18:30

Transport to hotels

Time

Wednesday 16th May

08:00 - 09:00

Coffee and Registration outside Pickavance Lecture Theatre

09:00 - 09:30

Keynote: Mirko Albani ESA - CEOS WGISS (Pickavance)

09:30 - 10:30

Session 1D (Pickavance): Chair David Giaretta - CCSDS

Session 2D (CR12/13): Chair Nancy Ritchey - NOAA

Evolution of CNES tools and processes for long term preservation of space science data

Benoit Chausserie-Lapree

Data Rescue Workshop at PV2018

Elizabeth Griffin, Mat Fry, Matthew Wilde

Semantic framework for responsible digital preservation policy

Vasily Bunakov

Sharing Earth Observation Data on the Web 

Uwe Voges

Database Archiving and Big Data Techniques from the E-ARK project

Sven Schlarb

Sustainable management of agricultural research data: A case for Big Data platform development for climate Smart Agriculture in Kenya

Boniface Akuku 

10:30-11:00

Coffee Posters and Demos (R18)

11:00-12:00

Session 4A (Pickavance): Chair Eberhard Mikusch - DLR

Session 3A (CR12/13): Chair Phil Kershaw - STFC CEDA

Collaborative Long-Term Data Preservation: From Hundreds of PB to Tens of EB

Jamie Shiers

The NERC Data Labs Initiative

Josh Foster

20-years of ESA space science data archives management

Christophe Arviset

The Data Distribution Centre of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 

Charlotte Pascoe

The Norwegian National Ground Segment; Preservation, Distribution and Exploitation of Sentinel data.

Trygve Halsne

PROBA-V MEP and TERRASCOPE: bringing the users closer to the data

Martine Paepen

12:00-13:15

 Lunch Posters and Demos (R18)

13:15-13:45

Keynote: Rosemarie Leone ESA - Everest Project

13:45-14:00

Short Break

14:00-15:00

Session 4B (Pickavance): Chair Sam Pepler - CEDA

Session 3B (CR12/13): Peter Allan - STFC Honorary Scientist

Sentinel Data Archiving at ESRIN

Nigel Houghton

Virtual European Solar & Planetary Access (VESPA):  a Virtual Observatory in Planetary Science

Stéphane Erard

40 years of Dundee Satellite Receiving Station's EO data archive

Paul Crawford

Virtual Planetary Space Weather Services offered by the Europlanet H2020 Research Infrastructure

Michel Gangloff

Practical Application of the Data Stewardship Maturity Model for NOAA’s OneStop Project

Nancy Ritchey

EVER-EST: The Platform allowing scientust to cross-fertilize and cross-validate data

Iolanda Maggio

15:00-15:30

Coffee Posters and Demos (R18)

15:30 -16:30

Session 3C (Pickavance): Chair Iolanda Maggio - RHEA/ESA ESRIN

Session 4C (CR12/13) - Chair Christophe Arviset - ESA ESAC

Building an Infrastructure for Climate Model Archives

Alison Pamment

Adding value and facilitating data reuse: the case of the 4TU.Centre for Research Data

Maria Cruz

ESA’s Research and Service Support as a Virtual Research Environment for Heritage Mission data valorisation

Paulo Sacramento

Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories - lessons learned

David Giaretta

VRE for meteorological and climatic processes analysis

Igor Okladnikov

 Digitizing analog spectrograms recorded on 35 mm film rolls on the Nançay Decameter Array from 1970 to 1990

Baptiste Cecconi

 

16:30 -16:45

Short Break

16:45 -17:45

Panel discussion chaired by Katrin Molch (DLR) Data Curation and Preservation across domains (Preservation and Value)

17:45 -18:15

Keynote: Juan Bicarregui STFC - European Open Science Cloud

18:15 -19:15

 Transport to Conference Dinner Venue - Personal time/walk around Milton Hill house , relax in bar etc

19:15 -22:00

 Conference Dinner Welcome by Joh Remedios Director of the Nationacentre for Earth Observation Tony Hey and Harald Rothfuss; After Dinner Speaker Hugh Mortimer "blood, sweat and tears: the value of data" 

Time  

Thursday 17th May

08:00 - 09:00 

 Coffee and Registration Outside Pickavance

09:00 - 09:30

 Keynote: Carlo Buontempo ECMWF - C3S Copernicus Service 

09:30 - 10:30

Session 3D (Pickavance): Chair Mirko Albani - ESA ESRIN

Session 4D (C12/13): Chair Jamie Shiers - CERN

Enabling the use of NOAA Open Data through Partnerships with Commercial Cloud Platforms

Edward Kearns


Building the Data Management Plan of Observatoire de Paris 

Baptiste Cecconi

Designing DAFNI : a national facility for modelling infrastructure 

Brian Matthews

ESA Space Data and Associated Information Long Term Preservation, Discovery and Access.

Rosemarie Leone

 NASA’s Earth Observing Data and Information System – Near-Term Challenges

Jeanne Behnke

Embedding Research Data Management Support in the Scholarly Publishing Workflow

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz

10:30 - 11:00

 Coffee Posters and Demos (R18)

11:00 - 11:30

 Keynote: Rachael Bruce JISC - Open Science Data 

11:30 - 12:00

Sarah Callaghan Journal of Data Science - Special PV2018 edition

Summing up of conference - Tony Hey and Harald Rothfuss to give best paper/poster award

12:00 - 12:30

 Final Talk of Conference PV2020: where to next Jamie Shiers CERN

 12:30 - 13:00

 Departures - Taxis pack up etc

No 

Poster/Demo Title

Authors

1 EUFAR Flight Finder & CEDA Satellite Data Finder Wendy Garland, Ag Stephens and Richard Smith
2 Supporting large scale, iterative metadata enhancement and delivery with a persistent, distributed, event streaming platform David Fischman, Evan McQuinn and Nancy Ritchey
3 Facilitating Accessibility and Exploitation of Historic AVHRR Products Gina Campuzano, Matthias Hofmann, Torsten Heinen and Katrin Molch
4 Integration of multiple sources on SELENE HDTV archives Yukio Yamamoto and Rie Honda
5 Analysis Ready Data to support the EVER-EST Virtual Research Iolanda Maggio, Rosemarie Leone, Mirko Albani, Simone Mantovani, Federica Foglini and Francesco De Leo
6 Bit preservation processes in the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis Archive Sam Pepler
7 Scientific Information Retrieval and Integrated Utilization System Marina Ohara, Masahiro Ukebe and Yukio Yamamoto
8 Integrated Space and Ground Based FY-4A Satellite Data Service System Zhe Xu, Di Xian and Yonggang Qi
9 Archive Reload Function of the Online Data Management System for Earth Observation Data Exploitation Platforms Markus Kunze, Stephan Kiemle, Nicolas Weiland and Matthias Hofmann
10 Introduction to the Fengyun satellite data sharing services on the Belt and Road Di Xian and Xue Li
11 The ESA CCI Open Data Portal Fay Done and Kevin Halsall
13 Processing surface state vector by temporal regularization of optical, thermal and SAR data Maxim Chernetskiy, Mathias Disney, Marcel Urban, Alberto Delgado, Maurizio Nagni and Christiane Schmullius
14 Quality control of CMIP5 data Ruth Petrie, Martin Juckes, Ag Stephens and Richard Smith
15 STFC Data Analysis as a Service (DAaaS) Frazer Barnsley
16 Online Access to Historical Solar-Geophysical Data: Efforts by UK Solar System Data Centre Matthew Wild, Yulia Bogdanova and Steve Crothers
17 Digital Preservation in the Jisc Research Data Shared Service Matthew Addis, Justin Simpson, Joel Simpson and Peter Van Garderen
18 Rescuing Data to Understand how we Determine our Future Elizabeth Griffin
19 A Space Weather VOEvent service provided by the CDPP in the frame of Europlanet H2020 PSWS Michel Gangloff, Nicolas André, Vincent Génot, Baptiste Cecconi and Pierre Le Sidaner
22 Migrating the UMARF Catalogue Database David Berry
23 Interactive Visualization and Analysis for Large Time-varying Multivariate Earth Science Data Jin Wang, Yu Pan, Michael Rilee, Lina Yu, Feiyu Zhu, Kwo-Sen Kuo and Hongfeng Yu

Stand

Exhibitor Information

Exhibitor Name

1 NCEO is a NERC research centre with more than 80 scientists distributed across leading UK universities and research organisations and led by Professor John Remedios at the University of Leicester. With an income of over £8 million per year we provide the UK with core expertise in Earth Observation science, data sets and merging techniques, and model evaluation to underpin Earth System research and the UK’s international contribution to environmental science. Our scientists work strategically with space agencies, play significant roles in mission planning, and generate internationally-recognised data products from 20 different satellite instruments. Our scientists publish more than 300 research articles every year and contribute to major environmental science reports. NEODAAS The NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service provides near-real-time and archive data processing to support UK research scientists undertaking research in the field, anywhere worldwide. Its rapid-response capability is a service unique in the UK, which comes into its own during disruptive events to support environmental research and wider decision-making communities. National Centre for Earth Observation
2 The NERC Earth Observation Data Centre at CEDA is the ‘go to’ place for NERC scientists to access EO datasets and hosted processing power. CEDA provides online access to new datasets created by NERC scientists, as well as large datasets produced by other agencies and key climate datasets. As well as dedicated data centres, CEDA runs the JASMIN e-infrastructure for climate and earth system science. The JASMIN "super-data-cluster" is deployed on behalf of NERC at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). JASMIN supports the data analysis requirements of the UK and European climate and earth system modelling community. It consists of multi-Petabyte fast storage co-located with data analysis computing facilities, with dedicated light paths to various key facilities and institutes within the community. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
2 The Institute for Environmental Analytics was launched in 2015 with £5.6m of start-up funding from the HEFCE Catalyst Fund to address these challenges. Driven by a shared vision between leading academic, industry and public sector partners, the IEA is developing the technologies, knowledge and skills that are urgently required to translate cutting-edge environmental research into commercially-relevant solutions in a range of key sectors. The institute for Environmental Analytics
3 The STFC Scientific Computing Department provides large scale HPC facilities, computing data services and infrastructure at both Daresbury Laboratory and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.The department also includes world leading experts in a number of scientific fields including computational chemistry, computational engineering, materials science, band theory, computational biology, advanced research computing, atomic and molecular physics, numerical analysis, software engineering, data services, petascale storage, scientific information and scientific computing technology. STFC Scientific Computing Department
4 The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) was formed in 1982 by the major space agencies of the world to provide a forum for discussion of common problems in the development and operation of space data systems. It is currently composed of eleven member agencies, twenty-eight observer agencies, and over 140 industrial associates.Since its establishment, it has been actively developing Recommendations for data- and information-systems standards to promote interoperability and cross support among cooperating space agencies, to enable multi-agency spaceflight collaboration (both planned and contingency) and new capabilities for future missions. Additionally, CCSDS standardization reduces the cost burden ofspaceflight missions by allowing cost sharing between agencies and cost-effective commercialization. CCSDS
4 PTAB - Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body Ltd: PTAB, incorporated by the same experienced international group of digital preservation experts who developed ISO standards 14721, 16363 and 16919, has been accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies of India (NABCB) to conduct ISO 16363 audits worldwide utilizing ISO standard 17021, as extended by ISO 16919. ISO processes ensure that any approved audit organisation accredited by a National Accreditation Board, may conduct audits worldwide and any certification that body grants, is accepted worldwide PTAB

Conference Objectives 

  • Facilitate Science Archives and Data Service Providers sharing knowledge, experiences, and lessons learnt and best practices.  In addition to fostering cooperation in the areas of Data Exploitation, Preservation and archived Data Stewardship.
  • Address key emerging issues for science archives including but not limited to Open Data, Big Data, Managing Heterogeneity, Data Management Planning, Data Usability, Exploitation and Impact.
  • Provide a forum for organisations dealing with preservation of own data and value adding to present the status of their activities, plans and expectations. In PV2018 we particularly welcome input from a broad range of science archives and data providers. In addition to space data archives we would like to extend a special invitation to.
  • Large science facilities from different domains to facilitate discussion of our common challenges.
  • Specialist science archives and data service providers who are integrating data with space based observation to produce innovative data services.

Session 1: Data stewardship approaches to ensure long-term data and knowledge preservation and data standards.

Chairs:  Brian Matthews, Richard Moreno, Harald Rothfuss and David Giaretta

In this session, we consider the best practises for the long-term preservation of the data and other results associated with research across the preservation lifecycle, from the submission of data packages for preservation, to the access of data products.  This includes the organisational structures, policies and standards adopted by data centres and archives to assure cost-effective preservation, together with risk management, uncertainty quantification, quality assessment and the evaluation of preservation capabilities.  Further, we will consider novel architectures and tools used to realise different preservation strategies, and standards, tools and languages to capture the preservation context, including the preservation of data formats, the use of identifiers, metadata, semantics, data provenance, quality and uncertainty. 

Topics for this session include:
  • Architectures and tools for curation and preservation
  • Standards for preservation access and exploitation; including uncertainty and risk
  • Policy, exploitation and preservation strategies
  • Risk assessment and appraisal of data value

Session 2: Adding value to data and facilitation of data use

Chairs: Tom Stein, Nancy Ritchey, Reta Beebe, Richard Hilton and Esther Conway

In this session, we consider activities that add value to archived data, facilitate their use or produce novel data services. Data archivists often focus most of their energy on creating well-formed, well-documented archives with the expectation that they will be available for the next 50 to 100 years. However, archived data are meaningless if they cannot be easily retrieved, understood, and used. As a result we would like to invite submissions from projects or archives who rising to the challenge of enhancing data in order to facilitate exploitation of data assets.

Topics for this session include: 
  • Added value services and applications on top of archives
  • Techniques and tools for facilitating data access and use
  • Approaches to supporting knowledge discovery
  • Integrating user feedback into archives and repositories
  • Validation and reanalysis of historic data sets
  • Integration of new data sources and different types of data  
  • Return on investment for value add services

Session 3 2017: Virtual Research Environments for science data exploitation and value adding

Chairs: Christophe Arviset, Mirko Albani, Phil Kershaw and Pascal Lecomte 

This session will consider new challenges, activities and research related to Virtual Research Environments or Collaborative Environments. While Massive data growth is calling for a new paradigm, with a shift towards “bring the user to the data", where scientists can bring their own code and run it where the data actually reside, instead of downloading the data and run their analysis on their computer. There is also an increased need for data, associated documentation and software long-term preservation and accessibility, for scientists to be able to re-run data analysis that was initially applied on the data. Last, scientists are now expecting to share not only their data, but also their software and the results of their research activities, and to work with their collaborators in an easy and effective manner, regardless of their location.

Topics for this session include: 
  • Thematic and science data exploitation platforms
  • Collaborative virtual research environments
  • Collaborative workflows and collection of data provenance
  • Provision of software as a service, enabling software long term preservation and use
  • Management of associated documentation management and data access
  • Archival of data from shared environment

Session 4: Data preservation in practice: past (present) and future

Chairs: Jamie Shiers, Kevin Ashley and Eberhard Mikusch

The purpose of this session is to examine existing practices and systems and highlight what has been learnt, including how to best benefit from collaboration between projects and/or disciplines. It will also look forward and attempt to understand how new developments and/or technologies and/or tomorrow's data volumes might influence or even constrain how things will be done in the future. Data preservation is not a static field: we wish to use this session to explore what we have learnt from previous migrations and to consider how to best prepare for the future, including potentially disruptive scenarios. We would also like to facilitate discussion on how different services involved in LTDP interplay and to use this opportunity to consider how we measure success and respond to requirements from funding agencies, such as those for F.A.I.R. data management. 

Topics for this session include:
  • Lessons from production systems, data curation, certification, migration between technologies, data re-use and sharing etc.
  • Future outlook: the promise and threats resulting from new technologies including how to guard against disruptive changes. Archival preservation strategy heterogeneity or aiming for homogeneity.
  • On-going or potential areas of cooperation in data preservation, access and reuse, including data transfer between and sharing across archives;
  • What to preserve, balancing scientific, educational and cultural motivation in relation funding: now and in the longer term.
  • Data at risk: examples of data not currently preserved or at risk for technical, financial or other reasons.

 

Conference Chairs

Conference Chair: Tony Hey - Chief Data Scientist STFC
Conference Co- chair: Harald Rothfuss - EUMETSAT

Organising Committee

Head of Organising Committee: Caroline Callard – STFC/RALSpace

Esther Conway – STFC/CEDA
Brian Matthews – STFC/SCD
Poppy Townsend – STFC/CEDA
Richard Hilton –  Satellite Applications Catapult
Anastasia Bolton –  Satellite Applications Catapult
Jan Fillingham - NCEO

Scientific Programme Committee

Head of Scientific Programme Committee: Esther Conway - CEDA
David Giaretta - APA
Brian Mathews - STFC
Richard Moreno- CNES
Nancy Ritchey - NOAA
Tom Stein - NASA PDS
Reta Beebe - NASA PDS
Christophe Arviset - ESA ESAC
Mirko Albani - ESA ESRIN
Pascal Lecomte - ESA Climate Change Office
Kevin Ashley - DCC
Jamie Shiers - CERN
Eberhard Mikusch - DLR
Robert Elliott - RAL Space
Phil Kershaw – CEDA
Richard Hilton - Satellite Applications Catapult


 

 

Professor Anthony John Grenville Hey CBE FREng FIET FInstP FBCS  -  STFC Chief Data Scientist and PV2018 Conference Chair:

Tony Hey led the UK's e-Science Programme from March 2001 to June 2005. He was appointed corporate vice-president of technical computing at Microsoft on 27 June 2005. Later he became corporate vice-president of external research, and in 2011 corporate vice-president of Microsoft Research Connections until his departure in 2014  Since 2015, he is a Senior Data Science Fellow at the University of Washington eScience Institute. Hey is the editor of the journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Among other scientific advisory boards in Europe and the United States, he is a member of the Global Grid Forum (GGF) Advisory Committee.

Esther Conway – Senior Earth Observation Data Scientist Centre for Environmental Data Analysis and Head of PV2018 Programme Committee

Esther joined CEDA in 2011 as an Earth Observation Data Scientist focusing on  the provision of data services and support to international data intensive projects.   She also spent 4 years providing programmatic support to  the ESA LTDP initiative in addition to data curation and management activities at CEDA.  Before transferring to CEDA she worked as an Analyst within STFC (06 -11) working on UK and European research projects aimed at strengthening the long-term reuse and exploitation of scientific data:  The particular focus of her research was the development of process/information models and methods which support the creation and exploitation of scientific research assets.  She also has over 9 years experience as an independent expert evaluator for EC Space FP7 and H2020 projects

Dr Chris Mutlow - Director, STFC RAL Space:

Chris is the Director of RAL Space, prior to his appointment, Chris was Head of Earth Observation and Atmospheric Science Division. In his 30 years at RAL he has led and been involved in a great many international projects. These include the Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer which takes the most precise measurements of global sea surface temperature to aid climate research; and a number of space instruments, developed to measure greenhouse gases, atmospheric pollutants and data on the destruction and recovery of the ozone layer. Most recently he led the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer for ESA’s Sentinel 3 mission to provide ocean, land and atmospheric data

Beth Greenaway - Head of Earth Observations and Climate, UK Space Agency:

Beth Greenaway currently leads the UK Space Agency work to develop public sector uptake of Earth Observation Services. Her work is focused on building strong relationships with public sector partners, with service providers from industry and elsewhere.  Beth joined the UK’s Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs in 2001 to manage the Flood Risk Management Research Programme. She then led the production of the UK Governments first assessment of the ‘State of the Seas, Charting Progress’ and in 2005 launched two major public sector partnerships: The Marine Climate Impact Partnership (MCCIP) and the Marine Data and Information Partnership (MDIP now MEDIN) to initiate change, address long standing issues with data stewardship and transfer knowledge to policy.

Stuart Martin – CEO and Executive Director of the Satellite Applications Catapult:

Stuart Martin joined the Catapult in January 2013 from Logica (now part of CGI) where he was Business Director for Space and Satellite Communications for nearly seven years, leading all the company’s activities in the Space domain. Stuart is a former vice-chair of UKSpace, the British trade association representing the Space industry, and council member of Eurospace – its European equivalent. He also sits on the UK Space Leadership Council, the top-level cross-industry, academia and government stakeholder group responsible for overseeing and implementing the UK Space Innovation and Growth Strategy.

Stuart is a passionate advocate of the Catapult programme, which he considers to be a vital element of the UK strategy to secure and accelerate economic growth from emerging technologies. Furthermore, for satellite applications, he believes there is a great opportunity to establish a world-leading position,  and make the UK the place to be if you want to do business in Space.

Michael Gleaves – Deputy Director, Hartree Centre (STFC):

Michael joined the Hartree Centre at its creation in 2013 as a business development manager. Prior to working for the Hartree Centre, Michael was project lead for data and metadata capture systems for STFC’s large facilities and held positions in areas of research, development and sales at Unilever and Dionex. As Deputy Director Michael’s role is to lead the commercial strategy of the Centre overseeing the work of the business development and impact and engagement teams to continue building on the industrial engagement to deliver Hartree's mission to transform UK competitiveness.

Sue O'Hare - Operations Manager, ESA Business Incubation Centre (BIC) Harwell:

Sue O’Hare is responsible for all aspects of operational management of the ESA BIC Harwell, from the recruitment of incubatee companies to the provision of day-to-day technical and business support to incubatees.

ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office (TTPO) has initiated its Business Incubation Centres (BICs) to work with and inspire entrepreneurs to turn space-connected business ideas into commercial start-ups companies. At the centres the entrepreneurs are supported with technical expertise and business-development support.

At the end of 2017, 18 ESA BICs in 15 European countries support yearly 140 start-ups. More than 500 new start-ups have been fostered creating thousands of new jobs and boosted regional economies. Several more ESA BICs are under preparation.

Mirko Albani – ESA Heritage Missions Programme Manager:

Mirko Albani is programme manager for Heritage Mission at ESA and also chairs the LTDP working group. In 2006, the European Space Agency (ESA) initiated a coordination action to share among all the European (and Canadian) stakeholders a common approach to the long term preservation of Earth Observation space data. During 2007, the Agency started consultations with its Member States presenting an EO Long Term Data Preservation strategy targeting the preservation of all European (including Canada) EO space data for an unlimited time-span ensuring and facilitating their accessibility and usability through the implementation of a cooperative and harmonized collective approach among the EO space data owners.

Mirko is also chair of the CEOS WGISS WG. WGISS creates and demonstrates prototypes supporting CEOS and Group on Earth Observation (GEO) requirements. WGISS also addresses the internal management of EO data, the creation of information systems and the delivery of interoperable services. The activities and expertise of WGISS span the full range of the information life cycle from the requirements and metadata definition for the initial ingestion of satellite data into archives through to the incorporation of derived information into end-user applications.

Rosemarie Leone – ESA ESRIN:

Rosemarie Leone has a background in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, she was employed at the Italian Space Agency for more than 10 years, responsible for ASI Information Technology Program supporting the research and development of ICT Technologies and infrastructures for ASI national space program. Since 2001 she is employed at ESA, Earth Observation Directorate, acting  as Operations Manager for various EO ESA and third parties Missions, managing EO Thematic Exploitation Platform projects and Long Term Data Preservation Program initiatives, since 2014 she is working for ESA IT Department in charge for the  development of new ICT technologies, services  and standards for space data and information assets preservation and stewardship, in compliance to Open Data policies and FAIR principles.

Juan Bicarregui - Head of the Data Services division, Scientific Computing Department at STFC:

Juan Bicarregui is Head of the Data Division in the Scientific Computing Department at STFC. Juan’s division has responsibility for research and development of the data systems that handle much of the huge volume of scientific data that is produced by the STFC research facilities. Juan has played a key role in formulating UK policy on opening up access to research outputs and chaired the cross Research Council group which published the RCUK Joint Principles on Data and associated Guidelines. Juan was a member of the steering group that set up the Research Data Alliance and co-chaired the RDA Organisational Advisory Board. Currently, Juan is coordinator of the H2020 EOSCpilot project that is supporting the first phase in the development of the European Open Science Cloud.

Prof. John Remedios - Director NCEO:

John is  the Head of the Earth Observation Science group at The University of Leicester and the Director of the National Centre for Earth Observation (from 1 October 2014). He is a visiting Fellow of the Department of Physics in Oxford (Sub-department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics) and  Chair of the UK Space Agency Earth Observation Advisory Committee, Chair of the Defra UK Copernicus Atmosphere Networking Group and a member of the NERC Pool of Chairs.

John also plays major roles to several satellite missions including Science Manager and Leader of the Principal Investigator team for the ATSRs as well as participating in the ATSR Quality Working Group. He is  a member of the MIPAS Quality Working Group and am a member of the GERB International Science Team. Other missions that I lead with my team work on include instruments on Metop such as IASI and AVHRR.

Hugh Mortimer - research scientist at STFC RAL Space:

Hugh Mortimer started his research career at the National Physical Laboratory in the Optical and Environmental Metrology group where he worked for four years on various different and exciting projects, including the development of an infrared spectroscopy calibration facility based on Fourier Transform spectrometry. It was following this that Mortimer realised he wanted to pursue a career in science and so returned, in 2004, to study for a doctorate at Oxford University. The work in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics group at Oxford was in the development of a miniaturised Fourier Transform spectrometer for space based remote sensing of planetary atmospheres. It was this work that fuelled his enthusiasm for space research he’s now working as a research scientist in the Space Science and Technology Department, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. Dr Hugh Mortimer currently directs his own research into the development of a novel spectrometer for the analysis of atmospheric gases, but is also involved in various other international projects including the calibration climate change monitoring instrument; the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) based on the satellite Sentinel 3 and the Sea Surface Temperature monitoring instrument, SISTeR which is being operated from the Cunard’s, Queen Mary 2.

Carlo Buontempo - Copernicus Department, C3S Section ECMWF:

Carlo Buontempo coordinates the activities of a number of international contracts working on the interface between climate science and decision making in sectors ranging from energy to city planning. Carlo completed a PhD in physics at University of L'Aquila in 2004 then he moved to Canada for his post-doc before joining the Met Office.

Carlo worked at the Hadley Centre for almost a decade were he led the climate adaptation team and more recently the climate service development team. In this role he led numerous projects involving climate change adaptation and regional modelling in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. In 2012 Carlo became the scientific coordinator of EUPORIAS, and project funded by the European Commission through the 7th framework programme.

Rachel Bruce - Director open science and research lifecycle, JISC:

Rachel Bruce leads JISC research activities in the area of open science and the creation and management of research across the whole research lifecycle. She works with colleagues across Jisc to set the direction and to help take the many relevant activities (eg open access or open metrics) JISC has in the area of open science and research management to the next stage to ensure we more effectively support UK research and also continue to have fit-for-purpose research infrastructure. By working together with research sector leaders and representatives, including research funders, JISC can ensure policy, practice and digital provision is aligned. I also lead the development of our research strategy, which crosses the whole range of research support we undertake. She believes its is essential to work with colleagues who provide the network, security or content and applications so we can respond to the needs of the research and university sector and prioritise what JISC should deliver for research in the coming years. Another part of her role includes work on international projects, including the European Open Science Cloud, and international partnership, for example the Knowledge Exchange partnership - where JISC works with similar organisations in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany and the Netherlands to advance open scholarship.

Sarah Callaghan Programme Manager Centre for Environment Data Analysis, Editor-in-Chief of the Data Science Journal:

Dr. Sarah Callaghan, CEDA Senior Researcher and Programme Manager, was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Data Science Journal The Data Science Journal is dedicated to the advancement of data science and its application in policies, practices and management as Open Data to ensure that data are used in the most effective and efficient way in promoting knowledge and learning. The scope of this peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic journal includes descriptions of data systems, their implementations and their publication, applications, infrastructures, software, legal, reproducibility and transparency issues, the availability and usability of complex datasets, and with a particular focus on the principles, policies and practices for data.

The Data Science Journal publishes a variety of article types (research articles, practice papers, review articles and essays).  The Data Science Journal also publishes data articles, describing datasets or data compilations, if the potential for reuse of the data is significant or if considerable efforts were required in compilation.

More information about the Data Science Journal can be found at: http://www.codata.org/publications/data-science-journal

 

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