Building a Scalable Biological Information Network - A Workshop Proposal to be held September, 2001 at the San Diego Supercompter Center, San Diego, CA

建立可扩展的生物信息网络 - 研讨会提案将于 2001 年 9 月在加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥的圣地亚哥超级计算机中心举行

• 批准号: 0120071
• 负责人: Chaitanya Baru
• 金额: $ 9.31万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2006-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0120071&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Scalable; Biological; Information; Network

A grant has been awarded to Alison Withey at the University of California, San Diego to convene a workshop to investigate user requirements, enabling technologies, and costs for building scalable information networks for the environmental sciences. The workshop, hosted by the Partnership for Biodiversity Informatics*, will assemble research scientists, directors of field stations and marine laboratories, as well as experts in computational and information sciences to discuss the technical requirements for building local, regional, and national-level networks designed to deliver continuous, integrated, high-quality data in real or near real time. Each of these audiences will contribute to and learn from the information exchange. Scientists will share their experiences in expanding site-specific science to broader spatial scales, and will discuss future information infrastructure needs in light of new sensors (field and satellite) and data collection capabilities. Directors of field stations and marine laboratories will ground the workshop in the present-day realities of existing infrastructure and capabilities, and will contribute to a new vision for how field stations and marine laboratories can expand to meet the needs for a national capability for observing and understanding environmental complexity. Computational and information scientists will present state-of-the-art developments in sensor technologies, networking, information delivery, and knowledge generation. Workshop presentations, discussion, and working group sessions will focus on three topics: 1) Enabling technologies and user requirements for data and information management and delivery, 2) Building distributed sensor networks: design and implementation issues, and 3) Building a scalable environmental information networks: from researchers to field stations to a national architecture. As environmental research becomes more complex and multidisciplinary, gains in our understanding of ecosystem biocomplexity can be furthered through the application of technologies that improve data management and delivery; enhance modeling and prediction capabilities; and facilitate communication among individuals, environmental sensors, computers, and databases. This workshop will be the first attempt to envision a scalable national environmental information infrastructure that meets the needs of scientists working at local and broader scales, as well as decision-makers and educators that may require information at regional to national scales. Consequently, the discussions and working group reports are anticipated to be of broad interest to many disciplines. Workshop products will be made available to a broader community via a webcast and web archive of the presentations; a white paper of the proceedings and recommendations which will be posted online; and peer reviewed article(s) outlining present technical capabilities, the design of a future environmental information infrastructure, and a research and implementation plan that will enable this goal to be achieved. * The Partnership for Biodiversity Informatics (PBI) is a consortium consisting of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas (KU-BRC), and the Network Office of the Long Term Ecological Research Program (LTER).

加州大学圣地亚哥分校的Alison Withey获得了一笔赠款，用于召开一次研讨会，调查用户需求、使能技术和为环境科学建立可扩展信息网络的成本。 该讲习班由生物多样性信息学伙伴关系 * 主办，将汇集研究科学家、实地台站和海洋实验室主任以及计算和信息科学专家，讨论建立地方、区域和国家各级网络的技术要求，这些网络旨在以真实的或接近真实的时间提供连续、综合和高质量的数据。 这些受众中的每一个都将为信息交流作出贡献并从中学习。 科学家们将分享他们在将特定地点的科学扩展到更广泛的空间尺度方面的经验，并将根据新的传感器（实地和卫星）和数据收集能力讨论未来的信息基础设施需求。 实地台站和海洋实验室的主任将根据现有基础设施和能力的当今现实举办讲习班，并将为实地台站和海洋实验室如何扩大以满足国家观测和了解环境复杂性的能力的需要提出新的设想。 计算和信息科学家将展示传感器技术、网络、信息传递和知识生成方面的最新发展。 讲习班的专题介绍、讨论和工作组会议将侧重于三个主题：1）数据和信息管理和提供的赋能技术和用户要求，2）建立分布式传感器网络：设计和实施问题，以及3）建立可扩展的环境信息网络：从研究人员到实地站再到国家架构。 随着环境研究变得更加复杂和多学科，我们对生态系统生物复杂性的理解可以通过应用技术来进一步提高，这些技术可以改善数据管理和交付;增强建模和预测能力;促进个人，环境传感器，计算机和数据库之间的通信。 该讲习班将首次尝试设想一个可扩展的国家环境信息基础设施，以满足在地方和更广泛的范围内工作的科学家的需要，以及可能需要区域至国家范围的信息的决策者和教育工作者的需要。 因此，预计讨论和工作组报告将引起许多学科的广泛兴趣。 讲习班的成果将通过下列方式向更广泛的群体提供：网上广播和网上专题介绍档案;将在网上公布的一份关于会议记录和建议的白色文件;以及概述目前技术能力、未来环境信息基础设施的设计、以及有助于实现这一目标的研究和实施计划的同行评审文章。* 生物多样性信息学伙伴关系（PBI）是一个由圣地亚哥超级计算机中心（SDSC）、国家生态分析和综合中心（NCEAS）、堪萨斯大学自然历史博物馆和生物多样性研究中心（KU-BRC）以及长期生态研究计划网络办公室（LTER）组成的联盟。