Inaugural Meeting of the National Forum for Geosciences Information Technology (FGIT); Washington, DC; October 6-7, 2005

这次讲习班将启动一个地球科学信息技术国家论坛。FGIT将成为所有地球科学技术国家对话的焦点，通过交流想法，经验和要求来解决网络基础设施问题和挑战。它将促进利用在地球科学不同领域的发展努力中吸取的经验教训，并促进发展网络基础设施部署和使用的最佳做法。与会者将包括参与地球科学网络基础设施的开发和运营的人员，这种网络基础设施的当前和潜在用户以及其他有关各方。讲习班的主题是“促进信息技术的开发、协调、部署和使用，以促进地球科学的研究、教育和业务”。它将包括演讲和讨论，包括学术，联邦机构和企业的观点，在网络基础设施的关键进展，可以造福地球科学，并在跨地球科学和环境研究社区的主题。与会者将积极参与会议，通过使用现代互动会议技术，在讨论小组中提出他们的兴趣和专门知识。FGIT将补充其他国家和国际会议，这些会议有更多的学科或发展重点的网络基础设施议程。预计FGIT将有助于提高地球科学工作者对信息技术潜力的认识，并有助于更有效地规划地球科学的网络基础设施发展。这些反过来将有助于加强地球科学研究，改善教育，并为公共决策提供信息。作为这一项目的一部分，信息技术工作组将维持一个公共网站，专门用于确定供讨论的重要问题，提供信息技术工作组会议的介绍和其他信息，如白色文件，提供工作组报告，以及用于交流关于网络基础设施热点问题的信息的公告和留言板。将广泛的参与者聚集在一起，并为报告和白色文件的编写提供一个框架，将促进支持地球科学研究和教育的网络基础设施的开发、整合和部署。

This workshop will inaugurate a National Forum for Geosciences Information Technology (FGIT). FGIT will be a focal point for a national dialog on technology across all of the geosciences to address cyber-infrastructure issues and challenges through an exchange of ideas, experiences, and requirements. It will foster the leveraging of lessons learned in development efforts in different areas of the geosciences and foster the development of best practices for cyber-infrastructure deployment and use. Participants will include people involved in the development and operation of geosciences cyber-infrastructure, current and potential users of such cyber-infrastructure, and other interested parties. The theme of the workshop will be, "Advancing the Development, Coordination, Deployment and Use of Information Technologies for Enabling Research, Education, and Operations in the Geosciences". It will include presentations and discussions that include academic, federal agency, and corporate perspectives, on key advances in cyber-infrastructure that can benefit the geosciences, and on topics that cut across the geoscience and environmental research communities. Attendees will be active participants in the meeting, bringing forward their interests and expertise in discussion groups through the use of a modern interactive meeting technique. FGIT will complement other national and international meetings that have more disciplinary or developmentally focused cyber-infrastructure agendas. FGIT is expected to contribute to an increase in awareness of the potential of information technology among the geoscience workforce and to more effective planning of cyber-infrastructure development in the geosciences. These in turn will contribute to enhancing research in the geosciences, improving education, and informing public decision-making. As part of this project, FGIT will maintain a public web site that will be devoted to framing important issues for discussion, hosting presentation and other information from FGIT meetings, such as white papers, hosting working group reports, and bulletin and message boards for the exchange of information on hot topics in cyber-infrastructure. Bringing together a broad spectrum of participants and providing a framework for development of reports and white papers will facilitate the development, integration, and deployment of cyber-infrastructure in support of geoscience research and education.