Background:
The Wildfire Science & Technology Commons (WSTC) believes that avoiding devastating wildfires requires urgent, innovative, and collaborative solutions. The Wildfire Science & Technology Commons is a bold new initiative designed to accelerate technological innovations for wildfire management and mitigation. We are building a community platform around open data, cutting-edge science, AI, and shared knowledge.
Our mission is to bring people together to break down the barriers that currently exist between wildfire-related data, models, and tools. Today these resources are siloed, which slows down innovation. We have the opportunity to create a seamless, smart platform to enable solutions that revolutionize how we understand, respond to, and prevent wildfires.
Purpose:
The purpose of the Standards Working Group is to:
- Define and implement a comprehensive tagging standards for data, models, workflows, and community networks within the Wildfire Science & Technology Commons.
- Ensure that the standards reflects the needs of diverse stakeholders, including researchers, fire managers, policymakers, and technology developers.
- Facilitate seamless discovery and integration of resources within the Commons through standardized metadata and tags.
- Maintain and update the standards as new resources, technologies, and community needs emerge.
Scope:
The standards Working Group will:
- Define Core standards: Develop a core set of tags and metadata categories for classifying data, models, workflows, and community networks within the Commons. This will include creating a standardized framework for resource identification, categorization, and relationships.
- Community Alignment: Ensure that the tagging system aligns with the needs and language of the wildfire management and research community, integrating input from various stakeholders.
- Iterative Development: The standards will be developed iteratively, with regular reviews and updates to reflect new trends, technologies, and community inputs.
- Interoperability: Ensure the standards is interoperable with existing frameworks and standards in related fields, allowing for cross-platform and cross-disciplinary usage of the Wildfire Commons resources.
- Tagging Guidelines: Develop guidelines for community members to tag their contributions (data, models, etc.) effectively, ensuring uniformity and clarity across the platform.
Process:
- Committee Formation: A Badge Working Group will be formed upon review of nominations, with the goal of 10-15 group members.
- Coordination: The group will have a Chairperson responsible for setting the agenda and coordinating the monthly meetings. Additional subcommittees may be formed as needed to dive deeper into specific priority areas.
- Phased Development: The standards will be developed in phases, beginning with high-level categories for data, models, and workflows, followed by more detailed subcategories based on stakeholder feedback.
- Collaboration: The group will collaborate with other working groups within the Wildfire Commons to ensure consistency in terminology, tagging practices, and platform functionality.
- Review and Feedback: Regular reviews will be conducted to gather feedback from the broader Wildfire Commons community, incorporating suggestions for improving the standards.
- Recommended standards: The group will provide an standards report for the Wildfire Commons for data, models, workflows, and the community network.
Outcomes:
- Improved Discoverability: A robust tagging system built from published vocabulary that enables efficient search, discovery, and integration of data, models, workflows, and community networks within the Wildfire Commons.
- Standardization: A standardized framework for resource classification that enhances interoperability and collaboration within and beyond the wildfire research community.
- Sustained Impact: An adaptable standards that grows with the Commons, ensuring that it continues to meet the needs of its diverse user base.
Nominations accepted at: https://forms.gle/89XhjEKwzrSye8SG9
Submit your nominations by December 13, 2024
