I've had this tab open for like 6 months and I finally got around to reading it: https://lnkd.in/gCzktzHu It's so good and such a gift to me in particular. Getting these insights into Chris's thinking is like finding a much smarter version of myself who's working on roughly the exact same problems that we are with Source Cooperative, but from the compute side of the coin rather than the data side. Well worth a read if you're interested in technology governance, academic computing, and the cloud.
Chris Holdgraf
9mo
Thanks for these kind words! I was just thinking it's time to write another one of these :-D
Brianna Lind
9mo
I really enjoyed reading this! SO MUCH good stuff!
Very cool!
Executive Director, Centre for Earth & Space
9moThanks for putting it back up my list as well Jed Sundwall, I forgot to read through it when I saw it last... must be time for another "One year later" post! I hope these and related concepts keep getting closer together - we definitely need better and simpler compute solutions to lower the bar to cloud-based analytics, but the data and metadata piece is still critical. Solutions like STAC are obviously part of that to facilitate access to data, but still most (?) data is not in the right state to be hooked into an analytics platform. We still need to improve globally (and regionally) relevant datasets to be processed to the right cloud-native formats AND be ready for use (Analysis-Ready, Cloud-Optimised - ARCO)... this is some of the "hidden" work which could be more coordinated. That goes for all forms of data, not just satellite... we need the same for models (e.g. climate, hydrodynamic, weather models), time-series data, etc... lots of the cloud-native work going on will provide tech solutions for this, but we still need the "DataOps" work to make that transition routine and automatic... just some random thoughts because I am procrastinating on my first day back in the office for the year!