/**
* Note: This file may contain artifacts of previous malicious infection.
* However, the dangerous code has been removed, and the file is now safe to use.
*/

/**
 * @file
 * Pathologic text filter for Drupal.
 *
 * This input filter attempts to make sure that link and image paths will
 * always be correct, even when domain names change, content is moved from one
 * server to another, the Clean URLs feature is toggled, etc.
 */

/**
 * Implements hook_filter_info().
 */
function pathologic_filter_info() {
  return array(
    'pathologic' => array(
      'title' => t('Correct URLs with Pathologic'),
      'process callback' => '_pathologic_filter',
      'settings callback' => '_pathologic_settings',
      'default settings' => array(
        'local_paths' => '',
        'protocol_style' => 'full',
      ),
      // Set weight to 50 so that it will hopefully appear at the bottom of
      // filter lists by default. 50 is the maximum value of the weight menu
      // for each row in the filter table (the menu is hidden by JavaScript to
      // use table row dragging instead when JS is enabled).
      'weight' => 50,
    )
  );
}

/**
 * Settings callback for Pathologic.
 */
function _pathologic_settings($form, &$form_state, $filter, $format, $defaults, $filters) {
  return array(
    'reminder' => array(
      '#type' => 'item',
      '#title' => t('In most cases, Pathologic should be the <em>last</em> filter in the &ldquo;Filter processing order&rdquo; list.'),
      '#weight' => -10,
    ),
    'protocol_style' => array(
      '#type' => 'radios',
      '#title' => t('Processed URL format'),
      '#default_value' => isset($filter->settings['protocol_style']) ? $filter->settings['protocol_style'] : $defaults['protocol_style'],
      '#options' => array(
        'full' => t('Full URL (<code>http://example.com/foo/bar</code>)'),
        'proto-rel' => t('Protocol relative URL (<code>//example.com/foo/bar</code>)'),
        'path' => t('Path relative to server root (<code>/foo/bar</code>)'),
      ),
      '#description' => t('The <em>Full URL</em> option is best for stopping broken images and links in syndicated content (such as in RSS feeds), but will likely lead to problems if your site is accessible by both HTTP and HTTPS. Paths output with the <em>Protocol relative URL</em> option will avoid such problems, but feed readers and other software not using up-to-date standards may be confused by the paths. The <em>Path relative to server root</em> option will avoid problems with sites accessible by both HTTP and HTTPS with no compatibility concerns, but will absolutely not fix broken images and links in syndicated content.'),
      '#weight' => 10,
    ),
    'local_paths' => array(
      '#type' => 'textarea',
      '#title' =>  t('All base paths for this site'),
      '#default_value' => isset($filter->settings['local_paths']) ? $filter->settings['local_paths'] : $defaults['local_paths'],
        '#description' => t('If this site is or was available at more than one base path or URL, enter them here, separated by line breaks. For example, if this site is live at <code>http://example.com/</code> but has a staging version at <code>http://dev.example.org/staging/</code>, you would enter both those URLs here. If confused, please read <a href="!docs">Pathologic&rsquo;s documentation</a> for more information about this option and what it affects.', array('!docs' => 'http://drupal.org/node/257026')),
      '#weight' => 20,
    ),
  );
}

/**
 * Pathologic filter callback.
 *
 * Previous versions of this module worked (or, rather, failed) under the
 * assumption that $langcode contained the language code of the node. Sadly,
 * this isn't the case.
 * @see http://drupal.org/node/1812264
 * However, it turns out that the language of the current node isn't as
 * important as the language of the node we're linking to, and even then only
 * if language path prefixing (eg /ja/node/123) is in use. REMEMBER THIS IN THE
 * FUTURE, ALBRIGHT.
 *
 * The below code uses the @ operator before parse_url() calls because in PHP
 * 5.3.2 and earlier, parse_url() causes a warning of parsing fails. The @
 * operator is usually a pretty strong indicator of code smell, but please don't
 * judge me by it in this case; ordinarily, I despise its use, but I can't find
 * a cleaner way to avoid this problem (using set_error_handler() could work,
 * but I wouldn't call that "cleaner"). Fortunately, Drupal 8 will require at
 * least PHP 5.3.5, so this mess doesn't have to spread into the D8 branch of
 * Pathologic.
 * @see https://drupal.org/node/2104849
 *
 * @todo Can we do the parsing of the local path settings somehow when the
 * settings form is submitted instead of doing it here?
 */
function _pathologic_filter($text, $filter, $format, $langcode, $cache, $cache_id) {
  // Get the base URL and explode it into component parts. We add these parts
  // to the exploded local paths settings later.
  global $base_url;
  $base_url_parts = @parse_url($base_url . '/');
  // Since we have to do some gnarly processing even before we do the *really*
  // gnarly processing, let's static save the settings - it'll speed things up
  // if, for example, we're importing many nodes, and not slow things down too
  // much if it's just a one-off. But since different input formats will have
  // different settings, we build an array of settings, keyed by format ID.
  $cached_settings = &drupal_static(__FUNCTION__, array());
  if (!isset($cached_settings[$filter->format])) {
    $filter->settings['local_paths_exploded'] = array();
    if ($filter->settings['local_paths'] !== '') {
      // Build an array of the exploded local paths for this format's settings.
      // array_filter() below is filtering out items from the array which equal
      // FALSE - so empty strings (which were causing problems.
      // @see http://drupal.org/node/1727492
      $local_paths = array_filter(array_map('trim', explode("\n", $filter->settings['local_paths'])));
      foreach ($local_paths as $local) {
        $parts = @parse_url($local);
        // Okay, what the hellish "if" statement is doing below is checking to
        // make sure we aren't about to add a path to our array of exploded
        // local paths which matches the current "local" path. We consider it
        // not a match, if…
        // @todo: This is pretty horrible. Can this be simplified?
        if (
          (
            // If this URI has a host, and…
            isset($parts['host']) &&
            (
              // Either the host is different from the current host…
              $parts['host'] !== $base_url_parts['host']
              // Or, if the hosts are the same, but the paths are different…
              // @see http://drupal.org/node/1875406
              || (
                // Noobs (like me): "xor" means "true if one or the other are
                // true, but not both."
                (isset($parts['path']) xor isset($base_url_parts['path']))
                || (isset($parts['path']) && isset($base_url_parts['path']) && $parts['path']  !== $base_url_parts['path'])
              )
            )
          ) ||
          // Or…
          (
            // The URI doesn't have a host…
            !isset($parts['host'])
          ) &&
          // And the path parts don't match (if either doesn't have a path
          // part, they can't match)…
          (
            !isset($parts['path']) ||
            !isset($base_url_parts['path']) ||
            $parts['path'] !== $base_url_parts['path']
          )
        ) {
          // Add it to the list.
          $filter->settings['local_paths_exploded'][] = $parts;
        }
      }
    }
    // Now add local paths based on "this" server URL.
    $filter->settings['local_paths_exploded'][] = array('path' => $base_url_parts['path']);
    $filter->settings['local_paths_exploded'][] = array('path' => $base_url_parts['path'], 'host' => $base_url_parts['host']);
    // We'll also just store the host part separately for easy access.
    $filter->settings['base_url_host'] = $base_url_parts['host'];

    $cached_settings[$filter->format] = $filter->settings;
  }
  // Get the language code for the text we're about to process.
  $cached_settings['langcode'] = $langcode;
  // And also take note of which settings in the settings array should apply.
  $cached_settings['current_settings'] = &$cached_settings[$filter->format];

  // Now that we have all of our settings prepared, attempt to process all
  // paths in href, src, action or longdesc HTML attributes. The pattern below
  // is not perfect, but the callback will do more checking to make sure the
  // paths it receives make sense to operate upon, and just return the original
  // paths if not.
  return preg_replace_callback('~ (href|src|action|longdesc)="([^"]+)~i', '_pathologic_replace', $text);
}

/**
 * Process and replace paths. preg_replace_callback() callback.
 */
function _pathologic_replace($matches) {
  // Get the base path.
  global $base_path;

  // Get the settings for the filter. Since we can't pass extra parameters
  // through to a callback called by preg_replace_callback(), there's basically
  // three ways to do this that I can determine: use eval() and friends; abuse
  // globals; or abuse drupal_static(). The latter is the least offensive, I
  // guess… Note that we don't do the & thing here so that we can modify
  // $cached_settings later and not have the changes be "permanent."
  $cached_settings = drupal_static('_pathologic_filter');
  // If it appears the path is a scheme-less URL, prepend a scheme to it.
  // parse_url() cannot properly parse scheme-less URLs. Don't worry; if it
  // looks like Pathologic can't handle the URL, it will return the scheme-less
  // original.
  // @see https://drupal.org/node/1617944
  // @see https://drupal.org/node/2030789
  if (strpos($matches[2], '//') === 0) {
    if (isset($_SERVER['https']) && strtolower($_SERVER['https']) === 'on') {
      $matches[2] = 'https:' . $matches[2];
    }
    else {
      $matches[2] = 'http:' . $matches[2];
    }
  }
  // Now parse the URL after reverting HTML character encoding.
  // @see http://drupal.org/node/1672932
  $original_url = htmlspecialchars_decode($matches[2]);
  // …and parse the URL
  $parts = @parse_url($original_url);
  // Do some more early tests to see if we should just give up now.
  if (
    // If parse_url() failed, give up.
    $parts === FALSE
    || (
      // If there's a scheme part and it doesn't look useful, bail out.
      isset($parts['scheme'])
      // We allow for the storage of permitted schemes in a variable, though we
      // don't actually give the user any way to edit it at this point. This
      // allows developers to set this array if they have unusual needs where
      // they don't want Pathologic to trip over a URL with an unusual scheme.
      // @see http://drupal.org/node/1834308
      // "files" and "internal" are for Path Filter compatibility.
      && !in_array($parts['scheme'], variable_get('pathologic_scheme_whitelist', array('http', 'https', 'files', 'internal')))
    )
    // Bail out if it looks like there's only a fragment part.
    || (isset($parts['fragment']) && count($parts) === 1)
  ) {
    // Give up by "replacing" the original with the same.
    return $matches[0];
  }

  if (isset($parts['path'])) {
    // Undo possible URL encoding in the path.
    // @see http://drupal.org/node/1672932
    $parts['path'] = rawurldecode($parts['path']);
  }
  else {
    $parts['path'] = '';
  }

  // Check to see if we're dealing with a file.
  // @todo Should we still try to do path correction on these files too?
  if (isset($parts['scheme']) && $parts['scheme'] === 'files') {
    // Path Filter "files:" support. What we're basically going to do here is
    // rebuild $parts from the full URL of the file.
    $new_parts = @parse_url(file_create_url(file_default_scheme() . '://' . $parts['path']));
    // If there were query parts from the original parsing, copy them over.
    if (!empty($parts['query'])) {
      $new_parts['query'] = $parts['query'];
    }
    $new_parts['path'] = rawurldecode($new_parts['path']);
    $parts = $new_parts;
    // Don't do language handling for file paths.
    $cached_settings['is_file'] = TRUE;
  }
  else {
    $cached_settings['is_file'] = FALSE;
  }

  // Let's also bail out of this doesn't look like a local path.
  $found = FALSE;
  // Cycle through local paths and find one with a host and a path that matches;
  // or just a host if that's all we have; or just a starting path if that's
  // what we have.
  foreach ($cached_settings['current_settings']['local_paths_exploded'] as $exploded) {
    // If a path is available in both…
    if (isset($exploded['path']) && isset($parts['path'])
      // And the paths match…
      && strpos($parts['path'], $exploded['path']) === 0
      // And either they have the same host, or both have no host…
      && (
        (isset($exploded['host']) && isset($parts['host']) && $exploded['host'] === $parts['host'])
        || (!isset($exploded['host']) && !isset($parts['host']))
      )
    ) {
      // Remove the shared path from the path. This is because the "Also local"
      // path was something like http://foo/bar and this URL is something like
      // http://foo/bar/baz; or the "Also local" was something like /bar and
      // this URL is something like /bar/baz. And we only care about the /baz
      // part.
      $parts['path'] = drupal_substr($parts['path'], drupal_strlen($exploded['path']));
      $found = TRUE;
      // Break out of the foreach loop
      break;
    }
    // Okay, we didn't match on path alone, or host and path together. Can we
    // match on just host? Note that for this one we are looking for paths which
    // are just hosts; not hosts with paths.
    elseif ((isset($parts['host']) && !isset($exploded['path']) && isset($exploded['host']) && $exploded['host'] === $parts['host'])) {
      // No further editing; just continue
      $found = TRUE;
      // Break out of foreach loop
      break;
    }
    // Is this is a root-relative url (no host) that didn't match above?
    // Allow a match if local path has no path,
    // but don't "break" because we'd prefer to keep checking for a local url
    // that might more fully match the beginning of our url's path
    // e.g.: if our url is /foo/bar we'll mark this as a match for
    // http://example.com but want to keep searching and would prefer a match
    // to http://example.com/foo if that's configured as a local path
    elseif (!isset($parts['host']) && (!isset($exploded['path']) || $exploded['path'] === $base_path)) {
      $found = TRUE;
    }
  }

  // If the path is not within the drupal root return original url, unchanged
  if (!$found) {
    return $matches[0];
  }

  // Okay, format the URL.
  // If there's still a slash lingering at the start of the path, chop it off.
  $parts['path'] = ltrim($parts['path'],'/');

  // Examine the query part of the URL. Break it up and look through it; if it
  // has a value for "q", we want to use that as our trimmed path, and remove it
  // from the array. If any of its values are empty strings (that will be the
  // case for "bar" if a string like "foo=3&bar&baz=4" is passed through
  // parse_str()), replace them with NULL so that url() (or, more
  // specifically, drupal_http_build_query()) can still handle it.
  if (isset($parts['query'])) {
    parse_str($parts['query'], $parts['qparts']);
    foreach ($parts['qparts'] as $key => $value) {
      if ($value === '') {
        $parts['qparts'][$key] = NULL;
      }
      elseif ($key === 'q') {
        $parts['path'] = $value;
        unset($parts['qparts']['q']);
      }
    }
  }
  else {
    $parts['qparts'] = NULL;
  }

  // If we don't have a path yet, bail out.
  if (!isset($parts['path'])) {
    return $matches[0];
  }

  // If we didn't previously identify this as a file, check to see if the file
  // exists now that we have the correct path relative to DRUPAL_ROOT
  if (!$cached_settings['is_file']) {
    $cached_settings['is_file'] = !empty($parts['path']) && is_file(DRUPAL_ROOT . '/'. $parts['path']);
  }

  // Okay, deal with language stuff.
  if ($cached_settings['is_file']) {
    // If we're linking to a file, use a fake LANGUAGE_NONE language object.
    // Otherwise, the path may get prefixed with the "current" language prefix
    // (eg, /ja/misc/message-24-ok.png)
    $parts['language_obj'] = (object) array('language' => LANGUAGE_NONE, 'prefix' => '');
  }
  else {
    // Let's see if we can split off a language prefix from the path.
    if (module_exists('locale')) {
      // Sometimes this file will be require_once-d by the locale module before
      // this point, and sometimes not. We require_once it ourselves to be sure.
      require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/language.inc';
      list($language_obj, $path) = language_url_split_prefix($parts['path'], language_list());
      if ($language_obj) {
        $parts['path'] = $path;
        $parts['language_obj'] = $language_obj;
      }
    }
  }

  // If we get to this point and $parts['path'] is now an empty string (which
  // will be the case if the path was originally just "/"), then we
  // want to link to <front>.
  if ($parts['path'] === '') {
    $parts['path'] = '<front>';
  }
  // Build the parameters we will send to url()
  $url_params = array(
    'path' => $parts['path'],
    'options' => array(
      'query' => $parts['qparts'],
      'fragment' => isset($parts['fragment']) ? $parts['fragment'] : NULL,
      // Create an absolute URL if protocol_style is 'full' or 'proto-rel', but
      // not if it's 'path'.
      'absolute' => $cached_settings['current_settings']['protocol_style'] !== 'path',
      // If we seem to have found a language for the path, pass it along to
      // url(). Otherwise, ignore the 'language' parameter.
      'language' => isset($parts['language_obj']) ? $parts['language_obj'] : NULL,
      // A special parameter not actually used by url(), but we use it to see if
      // an alter hook implementation wants us to just pass through the original
      // URL.
      'use_original' => FALSE,
    ),
  );

  // Add the original URL to the parts array
  $parts['original'] = $original_url;

  // Now alter!
  // @see http://drupal.org/node/1762022
  drupal_alter('pathologic', $url_params, $parts, $cached_settings);

  // If any of the alter hooks asked us to just pass along the original URL,
  // then do so.
  if ($url_params['options']['use_original']) {
    return $matches[0];
  }

  // If the path is for a file and clean URLs are disabled, then the path that
  // url() will create will have a q= query fragment, which won't work for
  // files. To avoid that, we use this trick to temporarily turn clean URLs on.
  // This is horrible, but it seems to be the sanest way to do this.
  // @see http://drupal.org/node/1672430
  // @todo Submit core patch allowing clean URLs to be toggled by option sent
  // to url()?
  if (!empty($cached_settings['is_file'])) {
    $cached_settings['orig_clean_url'] = !empty($GLOBALS['conf']['clean_url']);
    if (!$cached_settings['orig_clean_url']) {
      $GLOBALS['conf']['clean_url'] = TRUE;
    }
  }

  // Now for the url() call. Drumroll, please…
  $url = url($url_params['path'], $url_params['options']);

  // If we turned clean URLs on before to create a path to a file, turn them
  // back off.
  if ($cached_settings['is_file'] && !$cached_settings['orig_clean_url']) {
    $GLOBALS['conf']['clean_url'] = FALSE;
  }

  // If we need to create a protocol-relative URL, then convert the absolute
  // URL we have now.
  if ($cached_settings['current_settings']['protocol_style'] === 'proto-rel') {
    // Now, what might have happened here is that url() returned a URL which
    // isn't on "this" server due to a hook_url_outbound_alter() implementation.
    // We don't want to convert the URL in that case. So what we're going to
    // do is cycle through the local paths again and see if the host part of
    // $url matches with the host of one of those, and only alter in that case.
    $url_parts = @parse_url($url);
    if (!empty($url_parts['host']) && $url_parts['host'] === $cached_settings['current_settings']['base_url_host']) {
      $url = _pathologic_url_to_protocol_relative($url);
    }
  }

  // Apply HTML character encoding, as is required for HTML attributes.
  // @see http://drupal.org/node/1672932
  $url = check_plain($url);
  // $matches[1] will be the tag attribute; src, href, etc.
  return " {$matches[1]}=\"{$url}";
}

/**
 * Convert a full URL with a protocol to a protocol-relative URL.
 *
 * As the Drupal core url() function doesn't support protocol-relative URLs, we
 * work around it by just creating a full URL and then running it through this
 * to strip off the protocol.
 *
 * Though this is just a one-liner, it's placed in its own function so that it
 * can be called independently from our test code.
 */
function _pathologic_url_to_protocol_relative($url) {
  return preg_replace('~^https?://~', '//', $url);
}
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      <div class="inside"><div class="field field-name-field-art-category"><a href="/article-category/earth-science" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Earth Science</a></div><div class="field field-name-title"><h2>EarthCube: Transforming Earth Science Research for the 21st Century</h2></div><div class="label-inline"><h3 class="label-inline">Article Author(s):&nbsp;</h3><h4 class="label-inline"><div class="author-padding">Genevieve Pearthree</div></h4></div><div class="field-body-padding "><h2>
	Introduction</h2>
<p>In 2008, MIT’s Earth Systems Initiative team of 25 researchers generated 200 terabytes of data exploring marine microbial communities as part of the Darwin Project. They estimate that by 2013, their annual output could reach 20 petabytes, 2 *10<sup>16</sup> bytes. And that’s one research group. The Earth science communities are generating oceans of data requiring a new paradigm for efficacious staging, sharing and communicating information. The National Science Foundation’s EarthCube – a community-driven model for managing, sharing, and exploring data - might just be the solution.</p>
<p>EarthCube is an exciting new cyberinfrastructure initiative spearheaded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to facilitate collaborative and interdisciplinary scientific research while addressing information management and geoscience challenges of the 21<sup>st</sup> century. NSF goals for EarthCube are to transform the conduct of geoscientific research by developing community-guided cyberinfrastructure for knowledge management across the Geosciences (NSF 2012). The result: a system that integrates geosciences data and information in an open, transparent and inclusive manner (NSF 2011). </p>
<p>The Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) has contributed in the development of EarthCube since the initiative was first launched in July 2011, and has played a strong leadership role since early 2012.<a href="http://azgeology.azgs.arizona.edu/sites/azgeo.azgs.az.gov/files/article_files/IMAGE1.jpg" rel="shadowbox"><img alt="EarthCube logo" src="http://azgeology.azgs.arizona.edu/sites/azgeo.azgs.az.gov/files/article_files/IMAGE1.jpg" style="width: 350px; height: 107px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px; float: right; " title="EarthCube logo" /></a> AZGS hopes to continue to contribute to EarthCube as it grows and develops into a fully functioning cyberinfrastructure over the next decade.</p>
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	What Is EarthCube?</h2>
<p>EarthCube was launched as a collaborative partnership between NSF’s Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI), with the goal of creating a more sustainable future through improvements in our understanding of Earth as a complex and changing planet (NSF 2011). EarthCube is a cornerstone of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century (CIF21) initiative, whose chief objective is to develop a nationwide, sustainable, and community-based cyberinfrastructure for researchers and educators (NSF 2011). Specific objectives of EarthCube are to: </p>
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		Transform research and data management practices within the geosciences community over the next decade.</li>
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		Provide unprecedented new capabilities, including access to data and visualization tools, to researchers and educators.</li>
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		Vastly improve the productivity of the geosciences community.</li>
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		Accelerate research on the Earth system.</li>
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		Provide a knowledge management framework for the geosciences (Jacobs and Zanzerkia, 2012).      </li>
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<p>EarthCube will connect Earth Scientists, educators, policymakers, K-12 students, undergraduate and graduate students, industry, and government agencies to a distributed network of new data management paradigms and visualization tools. EarthCube will create new modes of learning and training, thereby fostering a more informed public and policy-makers, and broadening participation in the creation of a sustainable Earth system (NSF 2011).</p>
<p><a href="http://azgeology.azgs.az.gov/sites/azgeo.azgs.az.gov/files/article_files/IMAGE2.jpg" rel="shadowbox"><img alt="Time line graphic. Source: Jacobs and Zanzerkia 2012" class="caption" src="http://azgeology.azgs.arizona.edu/sites/azgeo.azgs.az.gov/files/article_files/IMAGE2.jpg" style="width: 300px; height: 225px; padding-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 30px; float: left; " title="Time line graphic. Source: Jacobs and Zanzerkia 2012" /></a></p>
<p>EarthCube is both an outcome and a process requiring a decade of development, community engagement, and investment by NSF and interested Earth, information, social and computer scientists, as well as stakeholders from government, industry, academia, and international communities. To date, more than 1,000 individuals have contributed to building EarthCube, which is currently based at the EarthCube Ning site (<a href="http://earthcube.ning.com/" target="_blank">http://earthcube.ning.com/</a>).</p>
<p>Initial EarthCube development involved four Working Groups - Data, Governance, Semantics and Ontologies, and Workflows - and five Concept Teams - Brokering, Cross-Domain Interoperability, Earth System Models, Layered Architecture, and Web Services. The Working Groups gathered EarthCube user requirements through broad engagement of the geosciences community, while the Concept Teams evaluated and prototyped innovative key technologies.<a href="http://azgeology.azgs.az.gov/sites/azgeo.azgs.az.gov/files/article_files/IMAGE3.jpg" rel="shadowbox"><img alt="Groups" src="http://azgeology.azgs.arizona.edu/sites/azgeo.azgs.az.gov/files/article_files/IMAGE3.jpg" style="width: 225px; height: 269px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; float: right; " title="Groups" /></a></p>
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<p>Each group was tasked with drafting a roadmap directing their area of EarthCube forward, while collectively providing NSF and other interested parties with a cross spectrum of ideas and concepts from the  Earth science and stakeholder communities regarding key elements needed to build EarthCube. These roadmaps were presented to NSF and interested parties at an EarthCube charrette (community event) on June 12-14, 2012 in Arlington, VA.</p>
<p>Since then, several new groups have cropped up, focusing on Education and Workforce, Physical Samples as Part of Cyberinfrastructure, and Website and Collaboration Environment, among others. The EarthCube community is now in the process of identifying gaps and overlaps among these groups, and new groups will likely be created as necessary to move EarthCube forward.</p>
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			Arizona Geological Survey’s Involvement in EarthCube</h2>
<p>AZGS has played an important leadership role in the EarthCube development process with AZGS Director Lee Allison as principle investigator (PI) of the <a href="http://earthcube.ning.com/group/governance" target="_blank">Governance Working Group</a>. AZGS staff members Kim Patten, Genevieve Pearthree and Debra Winstead worked closely with Allison in engaging the geosciences community and conducting the background research that provided the scaffolding for the <a href="http://earthcube.ning.com/group/governance/forum/topics/earthcube-governance-roadmap-final-version" target="_blank">Governance Roadmap</a>. Steve Richard, Chief of AZGS Geoinformation section, was directly involved in writing the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/0oqk5ostahfokbg/interop_roadmap_master8_Aug16.pdf" target="_blank">Cross-Domain Interoperability Roadmap</a>.</p>
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<p>Lee Allison and Genevieve Pearthree, in addition to the Governance Working Group Steering Committee (composed of Earth, atmosphere, ocean, and computer scientists from across the United States), presented the Governance Roadmap to NSF and the larger EarthCube community at the June 2012 NSF charrette. The Roadmap outlines a series of action items to determine how EarthCube will initially be governed.                                                </p>
<p>The Governance Working Group is currently carrying out an aggressive community engagement program to solicit ideas for EarthCube governance among Earth, atmosphere, ocean, computer, information and social scientists, and other interested parties. Dr. Allison, AZGS staff and the Governance Steering Committee held two EarthCube governance sessions at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Federation Summer Meeting in Madison, WI, July 17-20, and plan to hold EarthCube governance sessions at several upcoming conferences, including the <a href="http://www.neoninc.org/" target="_blank">National Ecological Observatory Network</a> (NEON), the <a href="http://www.agu.org/" target="_blank">American Geophysical Union</a> (AGU), and an NSF workshop focused on gathering EarthCube requirements from early career scientists. </p>
<p>		<a href="http://azgeology.azgs.az.gov/sites/azgeo.azgs.az.gov/files/article_files/IMAGE5-4.jpg" rel="shadowbox"><img alt="Lee Allison talking" src="http://azgeology.azgs.arizona.edu/sites/azgeo.azgs.az.gov/files/article_files/IMAGE5-4.jpg" style="width: 300px; height: 200px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; float: right; " title="Lee Allison talking" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Getting Involved</strong></p>
<p>Now is the time to influence what EarthCube can do and what it will be.  EarthCube is open to participation to interested individuals and organizations. To get involved, join one or more of the EarthCube Groups (<a href="http://earthcube.ning.com/groups" target="_blank">http://earthcube.ning.com/groups</a>). <a href="http://earthcube.ning.com/page/draft-roadmap" target="_blank">Draft roadmaps</a> of all the EarthCube groups, background reading, <a href="http://earthcube.ning.com/photo" target="_blank">photos</a> and other EarthCube information are at <a href="http://earthcube.ning.com/" target="_blank">http://earthcube.ning.com/</a>.  </p>
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			References</h4>
<p>EarthCube Governance Working Group, 2012, EarthCube Governance Roadmap: Documentation, Research, and Recommendations. Arizona Geological Survey Open-File Report -12-09, 235 p.</p>
<p>Jacobs, C.A., and Zanzerkia, E.E., 2012, “Update on EarthCube.” Presentation to the Advisory Committee for Geosciences (AC/GEO), Arlington, VA, April 18-19.</p>
<p>National Science Foundation, 2011, “Earth Cube Guidance for the Community,” <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11085/nsf11085.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11085/nsf11085.pdf</a>.</p>
<p>National Science Foundation, 2012, “Welcome to EarthCube,” <a href="http://www.earthcube.ning.com" target="_blank">www.earthcube.ning.com</a>, "Earth Cube," <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/geo/earthcube/">http://www.nsf.gov/geo/earthcube/.</a></p>
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