EarthCube Community Workshop: Designing A Roadmap for Workflows in Geosciences

EarthCube的重点是以社区为导向开发一个综合的、可互操作的地球和环境科学数据知识管理系统。通过利用一种合作的、而不是像创建互联网和开放源码软件那样的竞争过程，EarthCube将解决顽固而持久的问题，这些问题迄今阻碍了对驻留在分布式和多样化数据系统中的不同地球科学数据和数据类型的巨大仓库的充分访问和分析、可视化和互操作性。该奖项资助了一系列广泛的、包容性的社区互动，以收集足够的信息和要求，为开发EarthCube的关键能力(工作流程)创建路线图，EarthCube是NSF的一项重大新倡议。EarthCube环境中的工作流，以及一般的网络基础设施，涵盖了广泛的主题，包括分布式执行管理、将多个模型耦合到复合应用程序、将广泛的数据源与处理集成，以及从原始数据创建精细化的数据产品。在评估这一能力(即工作流程)的最佳方式并建立社区共识方面，资助工作的一个关键好处是能够记录建模中使用的数据的来源，并复制模型和数据启用的科学结果。由资金资助的讲习班和信息收集活动将向所有感兴趣的各方开放，由一个由网络基础设施开发人员、计算机科学家和地球科学家组成的多样化的专家团队领导。这项工作的更广泛影响包括在可能适用于整个科学的方法、方案和标准上趋同。这些措施还包括促进不经常相互互动的社区之间的密切互动，并将它们集中于在地球科学的数据和知识管理方面建立新的范例这一共同目标。

EarthCube is focused on community-driven development of an integrated and interoperable knowledge management system for data in the geo- and environmental sciences. By utilizing a cooperative, as opposed to competitive, process like that which created the Internet and Open Source software, EarthCube will attack the recalcitrant and persistent problems that so far have prevented adequate access to and the analysis, visualization, and interoperability of the vast storehouses of disparate geoscience data and data types residing in distributed and diverse data systems. This awards funds a series of broad, inclusive community interactions to gather adequate information and requirements to create a roadmap for a critical capability (workflow) in the development of EarthCube, a major new NSF initiative. Workflow in the context of EarthCube, and cyberinfrastructure in general, encompasses a broad range of topics including distributed execution management, the coupling of multiple models into composite applications, the integration of a wide range of data sources with processing, and the creation of refined data products from raw data. A key benefit of the funded work in terms of evaluating and creating community consensus on the best way forward for this capability (i.e., workflow) is the ability to document the provenance of data used in modeling and reproduce model and data-enabled scientific results. The funded workshop and information collecting activity will be open to all interested parties and is being led by a diverse and expert team of cyberinfrastructure developers, computer scientists, and geoscientists. Broader impacts of the work include converging on approaches, protocols, and standards that may be applicable across the sciences. They also include the fostering of close interaction between communities that do not commonly interact with one another and focusing them on the common goal of creating a new paradigm in data and knowledge management in the geosciences.