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Biodiversity & Ecosystem Informatics Biodiversity & Ecosystem Informatics Research, Technology Transfer, App Dev? Research, Technology Transfer, App Dev? Judith Bayard Cushing Judith Bayard Cushing The Evergreen State College, USA The

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1 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

Biodiversity & Ecosystem Informatics

Research, Technology Transfer, App Dev?

Biodiversity & Ecosystem Informatics

Research, Technology Transfer, App Dev? Judith Bayard Cushing

The Evergreen State College, USA

Kathleen Bergen University of Michigan, USA Jessie Kennedy Napier University, U.K. Renée J. Miller University of Toronto, Canada Yannis Ioannidis University of Athens, Greece Judith Bayard Cushing

The Evergreen State College, USA

Kathleen Bergen University of Michigan, USA Jessie Kennedy Napier University, U.K. Renée J. Miller University of Toronto, Canada Yannis Ioannidis University of Athens, Greece

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2 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

The BDEI Panel Session The BDEI Panel Session

  • BioDiversity & Ecosystem Informatics

VLDB 2000 and the US NSF BDEI Initiative

  • Panelists consider DB research in BDEI
  • Additional questions for panelists
  • Discussion
  • Summary, follow-up and outcome
  • BioDiversity & Ecosystem Informatics

VLDB 2000 and the US NSF BDEI Initiative

  • Panelists consider DB research in BDEI
  • Additional questions for panelists
  • Discussion
  • Summary, follow-up and outcome
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3 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

What is BDEI? What is BDEI?

VLDB 2000

– Ebbe Nielsen’s Keynote: Biodiversity Informatics: The Challenge of Rapid Development, Large Databases, and Complex Data

– Schnase’s Session on Research Directions in Biodiversity Informatics suggested current state

  • f the art is not adequate

www.vldb.org/dblp/db/conf/vldb/Schnase00.html

US NSF, NASA, USGS Workshop (2001) -- Identified ecosystem informatics problems, recommended funding of planning grants http://bio.gsfc.nasa.gov

VLDB 2000

– Ebbe Nielsen’s Keynote: Biodiversity Informatics: The Challenge of Rapid Development, Large Databases, and Complex Data

– Schnase’s Session on Research Directions in Biodiversity Informatics suggested current state

  • f the art is not adequate

www.vldb.org/dblp/db/conf/vldb/Schnase00.html

US NSF, NASA, USGS Workshop (2001) -- Identified ecosystem informatics problems, recommended funding of planning grants http://bio.gsfc.nasa.gov

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4 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

Does solving these problems entail : Does solving these problems entail :

  • More ecologists to do the work?
  • Work in the domain by ecologists, e.g.,

– training in existing technology,

– infrastructure for community databases, – infrastructure to support reuse?

  • Applying existing DBMS technology?
  • Applying DBMS research?
  • Conducting original DB research?
  • Identifying new DB research questions?
  • More ecologists to do the work?
  • Work in the domain by ecologists, e.g.,

– training in existing technology,

– infrastructure for community databases, – infrastructure to support reuse?

  • Applying existing DBMS technology?
  • Applying DBMS research?
  • Conducting original DB research?
  • Identifying new DB research questions?
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5 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

NSF BDEI Research Initiative NSF BDEI Research Initiative

DB Research Areas /////////////////////// 15 Projects

E C O C S community

X com

workshop

X

taxonomy

X

nomenclature

X

  • p’l semantics

X

event tagging

X lib

sp.infrastruct.

X

visual georef

X X

sp-temp models

X X

wireless sensors

ee

radar..habitat

X X

uncertainty

X X

metabolic fcns

X

popBDMonitor

X

SEEK (ITR)

X X

What are DB research areas?

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6 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

NSF BDEI (draft) Research Profile NSF BDEI (draft) Research Profile

Mostly as web services, much App to App and PtoP

Ontologies Modeling Heterogeneity Integration Metadata Semantics Spatial Temporal Remote Sensing Models, Monitoring & Forecasting (PtoP) UI Workflow E C O C S community

X X cm

workshop

X X

taxonomy

X X X

nomenclature

X X

  • p’l semantics

X X

event tagging

X X L

sp.infrastruct.

X X X X X

visual georef

X X X

sp-temp models

X X X X

wireless sensors

X ee

radar..habitat

X X X X X

uncertainty

? X X X

metabolic fcns

X X

popBDMonitor

X X

SEEK (ITR)

X X X

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7 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

Panelists to Present Panelists to Present

  • Ecosystem problem and/or

Ecosystem Informatics problem(s)

  • Why it’s hard
  • Corresponding DB research area(s)
  • Motivation & barriers for DB researcher

Is the DB research“fundamental” or applied, or is it “only” application development? How is the work of value to commercial world?

  • Ecosystem problem and/or

Ecosystem Informatics problem(s)

  • Why it’s hard
  • Corresponding DB research area(s)
  • Motivation & barriers for DB researcher

Is the DB research“fundamental” or applied, or is it “only” application development? How is the work of value to commercial world?

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8 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

Panelists’ Remarks Panelists’ Remarks

Kathleen Bergen

University of Michigan, USA

Jessie Kennedy

Napier University, U.K.

Renée J. Miller

University of Toronto, Canada

Yannis Ioannidis

University of Athens, Greece

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9 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

Discussion Discussion

  • Who should do BDEI research?
  • How could a database researcher get

involved?

  • What is involved in doing this research?
  • Other questions for panelists and

audience

  • What BDEI hopes to gain from VLDB

Panel

  • What VLDB might gain from BDEI….
  • Follow-up to VLDB Panel
  • Who should do BDEI research?
  • How could a database researcher get

involved?

  • What is involved in doing this research?
  • Other questions for panelists and

audience

  • What BDEI hopes to gain from VLDB

Panel

  • What VLDB might gain from BDEI….
  • Follow-up to VLDB Panel
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10 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

Who should do the work? Who should do the work?

  • Ecologists should work on these problems, and

come to us once CS research is defined.

  • Private industry should do the work, because there

is commercial value to the data.

  • Only well established CS researchers can afford to

work on these problems.

  • Only interdisciplinary teams of computer scientists

and ecologists who develop applications, create new technology, conduct research, can do it right.

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11 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

Additional Questions to Panelists Additional Questions to Panelists

  • Should funding agencies set aside funds for

interdisciplinary teams to do this work, and monitor PI’s for “interdisciplinary compliance”?

  • Should we set up departments or centers of BDEI

research, with majors and students?

  • Should journals/conferences set aside “slots” and

extra space for applied research in scientific DB (incl. ecosystem informatics)?

  • Should DB tenure decisions “count” BDEI

research?

  • Other?
  • Should funding agencies set aside funds for

interdisciplinary teams to do this work, and monitor PI’s for “interdisciplinary compliance”?

  • Should we set up departments or centers of BDEI

research, with majors and students?

  • Should journals/conferences set aside “slots” and

extra space for applied research in scientific DB (incl. ecosystem informatics)?

  • Should DB tenure decisions “count” BDEI

research?

  • Other?
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12 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

Follow-up Follow-up

  • Summary will be posted on the VLDB web site
  • Feedback to NSF, NASA, USGS
  • November BDEI PI’s workshop
  • NSF Digital Government Discussion Forum
  • Contact one of us:

– judyc@evergreen.edu

– kbergen@umich.edu – j.kennedy@napier.ac.uk – yannisdi.uoa.gr – miller@cs.toronto.edu

  • Summary will be posted on the VLDB web site
  • Feedback to NSF, NASA, USGS
  • November BDEI PI’s workshop
  • NSF Digital Government Discussion Forum
  • Contact one of us:

– judyc@evergreen.edu

– kbergen@umich.edu – j.kennedy@napier.ac.uk – yannisdi.uoa.gr – miller@cs.toronto.edu

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13 Cushing; VLDB-BDEI Panel, August 2002

BDEI hopes from VLDB BDEI hopes from VLDB

  • DB Researchers willing to work in BDEI
  • Help in refining the DB research issues (Nov. 2002)
  • Resources to do our work -- money, products
  • opportunities to present our work and get feedback
  • DB Researchers willing to work in BDEI
  • Help in refining the DB research issues (Nov. 2002)
  • Resources to do our work -- money, products
  • opportunities to present our work and get feedback

What BDEI offers VLDB…. What BDEI offers VLDB….

  • Demonstrate where economic / social value lies
  • Define research questions -- most overlap with traditional

industry, new ones may be ultimately useful

  • Publish our (clean and documented) schemas and data sets

that you might use in your research

  • Use your products, prototypes, results and give feedback

Help preserve this world for you & yours!

  • Demonstrate where economic / social value lies
  • Define research questions -- most overlap with traditional

industry, new ones may be ultimately useful

  • Publish our (clean and documented) schemas and data sets

that you might use in your research

  • Use your products, prototypes, results and give feedback

Help preserve this world for you & yours!