This form is to request membership to one or more of the Open Modeling Foundation's (OMF) Working Groups.
If you would like to join the OMF as an Affiliate Member, please look for the Affiliate option underneath the Working Group options.
Standards Working Group: The Standards Working Group (SWG) oversees the adoption, dissemination, and administration of OMF standards for access, documentation, reusability, and interoperability. It proposes standards to be reviewed, revised, and approved by the OMF Members Council. The SWG works with Administrative Coordinator to communicate proposed and adopted OMF standards to OMF member organizations and other stakeholders, and solicit input about proposed standards from the modeling community. In coordination with the Certification Working Group, it helps OMF member (and other) code repositories implement OMF standards for access, discoverability, and recognition of model developers who implement OMF best practice standards.
Certification Working Group: The Certification Working Group (CWG) develops and administers programs to certify model code that meets OMF standards for modeling best practices, and officially recognize model developers who apply these standards. CWG activities include developing and administering a community-wide program for model code peer review, establishing metrics for standards compliance, creating and assigning digital certification badges that follow guidelines being developed by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The CWG helps OMF member (and other) code repositories to ensure that models meeting OMF standards are clearly identified and developers who create standards-based models are publicly recognized. The CWG coordinates collaborative efforts with journals, funding agencies, societies, institutions/labs, other software/modeling consortia, and professional bodies to disseminate and administer OMF standards across the community of modeling science, and to promote recognition of OMF standards.
Education and Outreach Working Group: The Early Career Scholars Working Group: Early Career Scholars (ECS) helps the Open Modeling Foundation to support student and early career development. As such the ECS WG welcomes: 1) Any student enrolled in an institution of higher learning (e.g., college or university) or early career scholar, and/or 2) Any scholar or researcher who has gotten through the early career phase and is passionate about helping early career individuals on their journey (for example through mentorship or development of training materials or exercises). The ECSWG provides input to OMF Working Groups and the Executive Committee. The ECSWG organizes ECS and student-focused programs and events and is primarily assisted by the Administrative Coordinator and EOWG.
Cyberinfrastructure Working Group: The Cyberinfrastructure Working Group (CYWG) coordinates development and management of the OMF Science Gateway, an online platform for collaborative governance and standards. CYWG works to to identify, develop, and enhance tools and processes that lower the technical barriers towards adoption of OMF standards and facilitate their use by modeling scientists. CYWG staff assist the EOWG in developing online training modules and making them available on the OMF Science Gateway.
Early Career Scholars Working Group: Early Career Scholars (ECS) helps the Open Modeling Foundation to support student and early career development. The ECS is open to any student enrolled in an institution of higher learning (e.g., college or university) or early career scholar. The ECS provides input to Working Groups and the Executive Committee. The ECS can organize student-focused programs and events, assisted by the Administrative Coordinator and EOWG. Members of the ECS elect a leader to represent the ECS on the Executive Committee.