Web-based Data Management System for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

该项目将实施一个可扩展的、万维网接口的数据管理系统，以支持国家生态分析与综合中心的使命，并进一步推动生态社区在越来越广泛的空间、时间和学科范围内整合生态数据的努力。该项目将扩展圣地亚哥超级计算机中心为圣地亚哥湾项目所做的工作，整合来自夏威夷毕晓普博物馆的系统学收集数据、加州选定生物区域的生态调查数据收集，以及生态学中心使用的研究人员提供的数据收集。这一系列数据将为开发生态社区内的标准和实践提供探索者，使其能够预测和解决已知和尚未发现的问题，从而提高生态学的预测价值，促进数据共享，并保存有价值的生态数据。该项目还将与美国生态学会（ESA）合作，解决数据知识产权、数据出版和长期维护生态数据的筹资机制等问题。欧空局认为这些问题是利用大型和长期数据集的关键，也是生态社区共享这些数据的关键。欧空局成立了一个特别委员会，以启动一致的做法并提出政策，以促进生态社区的数据共享和存档。欧空局将利用该项目参与并协助建立一个系统，以满足其探索生态数据档案的结构、操作和使用的任务。欧空局正在努力确保有效的生态数据档案的财政可持续性。

This project will implement a scalable, World Wide Web- interfaced, data management system to support the mission of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and further the ecological community's efforts to integrate ecological data over increasingly broader ranges of space, time and discipline. The project will expand on the work that has been done for the San Diego Bay project at the San Diego Supercomputer Center by integrating systematics collection data from the Bishop Museum in Hawaii, ecological survey data collections for selected California bioregions, and researcher- supplied data collections to be used at the ecology center. This range of data will provide pathfinders to develop standards and practices within the ecological community enabling it to anticipate and resolve known and yet-undiscovered problems to improve the predictive value of ecology, facilitate data sharing, and preserve valuable ecological data. The project will also address the issues of intellectual property rights in data, publication of data, and funding mechanisms for the long-term maintenance of ecological data in conjunction with the Ecological Society of America (ESA). These issues have been identified by the ESA as key to the utility of large and long-term data sets, and the sharing of those data by the ecological community. The ESA has established a special committee to initiate consistent practices and propose policies to facilitate data sharing and archiving by the ecological community. The ESA will utilize this project to participate and assist in the construction of a system that can satisfy its mandate to explore the structure, operation, and use of ecological data archives. The ESA is working to ensure the financial sustainability of an effective ecological data archive.