Parking Lot [scratched out]

 

+ costs of viz

+ the way EPO partnerships happen

+ (usefully) searchable NASA database

- images

- info

- intellegently tag images

+ viz - produced for multiple reasons - not connected to users' needs -

network?

+ economic model for production of planetarium programs

+ data format <-> context

+ how do visitors make meaning of viz? research

+ access [scratched out] / Bandwidth / [illegible] missions - use of

final [?] for educational / for Z [?] purposes

 

[margin]

ASTC

venue professional development

 

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Sustainability $

+ sources funding?

+ partnerships

+ NSF

- dome productions

- $ when developing & delivering systems

- planning grant

+ ISE - March - 6 page - letter of intent

- new techniques

- wants collaborations

- standards

- adapt major productions for broader use

+ explicate costs of production as well as who it will serve

+ market impact of viz to build support

+ Disney - exclusivity trade-off (private)

 

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+ connect academy

- researchers / communicating public extensions

 

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(send)

Resource / Links

+ randy@oddjob.uchicago.edu

- with description / annotation

- when get email list - rank & return

 

Re-gather in 12 months

+ with specific goals

+ and one person from each NASA campus

+ NSF astronomy [margin]

 

AAS - Astro Film Festival next January

 

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Turn feedback into action

+ trim ineffective programs to reallocate $

+ educate [underlined] decsion-makers

+ "speak like a geek" - participants will pay for

+ take advantage of media opportunities

+ funds designated to support visualizations

+ development for identified topics

+ present cohesive [underlined] image of power of viz - research

[underlined]

 

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+ network / community - build on other work

 

2 problems

- inside NASA

- outside NASA

 

"Searchable" database [scratched out] registry [circled] of

visualizations

( expandable links / email portals )

+ design "simple" to "enter" system to enter data

+ tag both "type of media" "content"

+ community should - connect [underlined]

+ include rescuing imagery soon to be lost - "digitizing" heritage

+ as missions close [underlined] - archive key pieces

+ streamline education info

+ Kokao [!?!] best practices in other fields

 

Laura Danly [small, in lower left margin]

 

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Building Network / Community

+ "astroviz" listserve [underlined] "blog" "google group" or use an

existing

+ website "yellow pages" searchable [underlined]

+ ? existing [underlined] "Visualization Alliance" -> Museum

[underlined] Join! "MarsViz" [underlined]

+ subgroup meeting at AAAS AAAS AGU ASP IPS SIGGRAPH

+ "informal ed" fellow - like "Einstein fellow"

+ commit to supporting a new group - keepers of flame and cattle prod

- group for NASA to work with

+ actually recruit / educate new users

+ Public Affairs not here [underlined]

 

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EPOs

+ embedded / funded in science missions currently

- w/ brokers to hook into -- problematic [underlined]

+ early commitment to potential unfunded projects

+ sometime "conflict of interest"

+ current EPOs not coordinated even if part of same project

- fragmented budgets and projects

+ problem $ for smaller mission

+ need list [doubly underlined] of what EPO products should be

+ review successful programs (i.e., Solar System Ambassadors) and

support through [underlined] various missions

+ informal ed - bigger business than NASA realizes

+ need feedback loop [underlined] - input earlier to plan and

afterwards [in margin]

- success [underlined]

- less successful

- audience

- users

- include metrics [underlined]

 

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+ make distinction clear between media and education - i.e., film crews

 

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Task Forces [scratched out]

 

Next Meeting = Decadal Review?

+ timelines, etc.

+ technical liasion [underlined] (who is technically savvy) in NASA

centers -> Chief Tech Office

- (written helians [?])

- facilitate info exchange

- opportunity advocate

- help NASA help themselves

 

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+ make "group" presentations at ASTC, etc.

+ keep group momentum

+ Frank Google Group

+ website for 4th (?) grade to present wares

- add to existing? i.e., NASA KidSpace

 

NASA needs "technical outreach"

 

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Case Study Summary

+ what

+ audiencee input

+ viz

 

Additional Photos

 

Lisa Cover Image

 

Send link re: case study and other meetings to Laura