ESI Summit

[Charles Barton]

Dear Krishna,

Excellent. Welcome. I've added your name to the list of ESI Summit organisers and taken the liberty of addiing GSA Informatics to the list of organising agencies. I hope that is OK. 

We have a Google group where working documents can be maintained for common use:   http://groups.google.com/group/essisummit

The group email address is:  essis...@googlegroups.com

Things that need immediate attention, on which your views would be appreciated: 

1. A final decision on the name of the Summit. Currently it is "Earth & Space Science Informatics Summit". An alternative suggestion is to revert to "Geoinformatics Summit" - which is snappier, avoids too close association with AGU ESSI and the emerging EGU ESSI, but is less descriptive.

2. Refinement of the plan for the Summit (attached). Are there issues you were planning to address in your London Summit that should be included?

3. Your prioritised list of who we should invite.

I'll be overseas (Johannesburg, Addis Ababa) from 9-22 Nov. Email may be patchy.

Best wishes,

Charlie

On 06/11/2007, at 1:54 AM, Krishna Sinha wrote:

Dear Charles,

I would be very pleased to participate in the Informatics Summit meeting. I am still hopeful that the summit I had proposed for London will still happen ,as it was a proposal to identify mechanisms for establishing an international collaboratory for informatics. Even though we are all trying to promote the science of Geoinformatics, community support ( beyond agencies funded through federal allotments) is lagging because of lack of funding and strong integrative demonstration projects. These could be considered at the meeting in Rome.

You will be pleased to know that Geological Society of America has agreed to publish a Memoir ( its most advanced research oriented publication) on Societal Challenges and Geoinformatics, with a planned publication date of summer 2009. I am pleased that Ian Jackson, Linda Gundersen and David Arctur have agreed to be co-editors with me. I believe that such publications may influence both funding and policy regarding geoinformatics, and provide  others an opportunity to consider future follow up publications .Let me know if I can help with the meeting.

Looking forward to the conference

Krishna

[Krishna Sinha]

Hi Charles,
I just posted on the website a copy of my workshop proposal on establishing an International Collaboratory for advancing e-geoscience ( we could consider it as a possible name for the conference??) . It highlights many of the topics that may be of interest to our community, and sections of it may serve as discussion themes.
As far as other people that should be invited, I believe that Deborah McGuinness's participation  would be very valuable in discussions related to semantics , semantic web and other topics. Please consider inviting her to the meeting. Her e mail is "Deborah L. McGuinness" <d...@ksl.stanford.edu>.
Thanks for the information about the hotel, and will make my reseravtions soon.
Krishna

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