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The Boulder Earth and Space Science Informatics Group (BESSIG) aims to galvanize and support networking and collaboration among Earth and Space Science data users, data providers, data managers, and middleware providers, especially those in the Boulder, Colorado area. Topical areas include issues of scientific data representation, management, discovery, access, analysis, visualization, citation, transparency, and the infrastructure to support those efforts. The end goal is to improve the usage and thus the value of scientific data, thereby improving our understanding of our Earth and its systems.
Our next meeting is on Monday, October 6August 31, at 4:30 00 PM. Our speaker is Beth Huffer, who will present "What's an Ontology and What Should I Do With It?, Ken Klingenstein, from Internet2, will discuss "Leveraging Internet Identity for Scientific Collaborations". More information about the October 6 August 31 meeting is available at this October 6 Meeting Announcement. 
Note that we have a new venue, The Gondolier, in the Meadows Shopping Center. this August 31 Meeting Announcement.
We continually seek topics and speakers of interest. If you have an idea for a relevant topic you would like to see presented, please contact bessig dot info at lasp dot colorado dot edu to discuss setting up a presentation. See our news page for past meeting agendas and other news that might spur ideas.
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