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GIScience 2008 Cyberinfrastructure Workshop (originated by Dawn Wright) (you can login to change)

Goal of Workshop: To continue the momentum of initiatives such as increased CI opportunities at NSF, UCGIS Winter meeting, AAG CI specialty group, etc. by - introducing CI for GIScience to workshop attendees - dialogue and strategize, especially regarding collaborating on future proposals or raising visibility of geospatial CI at NSF, other agencies

See full information at http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/gisci08.html

9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome and introduction by Dawn Wright (Oregon State), including goals of workshop, round-the-table intros of participants

9:15 - 9:45 - Shaowen Wang (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) - "Bridging CI and GIScience - A Holistic Approach"

9:45 - 10:15 - Phil Yang (George Mason) - "GeoCyberinfrastructure"

10:15 - 10:45 - Rob Raskin (NASA JPL) - "Knowledge as CI: Toward Geographic Knowledge Systems (GKS)"

10:45 - 11:00 - BREAK

11:00 - 12:00 - Tim Nyerges (U. Washington) - "GIScience Knowledge Web"

12:00 - 1:00 - LUNCH (Organizers meet to further refine afternoon slots)

1:00 - 2:00 - Lynn Usery (USGS) - "The National Map Relationship to NSDI and NGP" "The USGS Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science"

2:00 - 4:00 - Combine with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Workshop Discussion of community needs and related NSF program announcements. Concluding discussion of linkages with AAG CI specialty group activities, special issues for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Cartographica, related book projects in development, and other action items and opportunities.

Some NSF Funding Calls

 -- NSF 07592 Expeditions in Computing
 -- NSF 07565 Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP)
 -- NSF 07537 Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program
 -- perhaps even the next DataNet,  NSF 07601