Informatics efforts emerged largely in isolation across a number of disciplines. This new discipline, generally cast as the science and engineering of information systems originated in the middle of the last century and has undergone many adaptations and in the last two decades flourishing into discipline-specific fields like geoinformatics, bioinformatics, astroinformatics and more. Recently, certain core elements in informatics have been recognized as applicable across disciplines. Hence, efforts at systematizing the common (or core, i.e. discipline neutral) aspects of informatics have been successful: use cases, human-centered design, iterative approaches, information models and more are some of the key elements. Dr. Peter Fox has been instrumental in convening the Earth Science Informatics community, defining Informatics and Data Science in Earth Sciences, for his vision of “X-informatics” and the evolution of these fields as interdisciplinary research becomes widely accepted, and new challenges arise from the increased attention to a data-intensive approach in general. This includes creating or adapting informatics to address data that are high-dimensional, heterogeneous, sparse or with uncertain quality. We would like to dedicate this session to Dr. Peter Fox, a visionary, champion and an avid explorer of boundaries when it comes to Informatics and its benefits in scientific research. This session will showcase the field of Informatics, its history, current research, visions for the future and the role Dr. Peter Fox has in shaping these ideas and approaches.
Featured presentations:
- Mineral Informatics: Analytics, Visualization, and the Legacy of Peter Fox (Robert Hazen)
- X-informatics: making data science down to earth in the real world (Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma)
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