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

本次研讨会将成立一个国家地球科学信息技术论坛（FGIT）。FGIT将成为全国所有地球科学技术对话的焦点，通过交流思想、经验和需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工作中吸取的经验教训，并促进网络基础设施部署和使用的最佳实践的发展。参与者将包括参与地球科学网络基础设施开发和运营的人员，这些网络基础设施的当前和潜在用户，以及其他相关方。研讨会的主题是“促进信息技术的发展、协调、部署和使用，促进地球科学领域的研究、教育和业务”。它将包括学术、联邦机构和企业视角的演讲和讨论，内容涉及有利于地球科学的网络基础设施的关键进展，以及跨越地球科学和环境研究界的主题。与会者将是会议的积极参与者，通过使用现代互动会议技术，在讨论组中提出他们的兴趣和专业知识。FGIT将补充其他具有更多学科或发展重点的网络基础设施议程的国家和国际会议。FGIT预计将有助于提高地球科学工作人员对信息技术潜力的认识，并有助于更有效地规划地球科学领域的网络基础设施发展。这反过来将有助于加强地球科学研究、改善教育和为公共决策提供信息。作为该项目的一部分，FGIT将维护一个公共网站，专门用于讨论重要问题，主持FGIT会议的演讲和其他信息，例如白皮书，主持工作组报告，以及公告和留言板，以便就网络基础设施的热门话题交换信息。将广泛的参与者聚集在一起，并为编写报告和白皮书提供一个框架，将促进网络基础设施的开发、集成和部署，以支持地球科学研究和教育。

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.