Workshops for a Community Roadmap for Governance of Geoscience Cyberinfrastructure (EarthCube)

EarthCube的重点是由社区驱动开发一个综合和可互操作的地理和环境科学数据知识管理系统。通过利用一个合作的，而不是竞争的过程，就像创建互联网和开源软件一样，EarthCube将解决迄今为止一直阻碍充分访问和分析，可视化的持续存在的问题，以及存在于分布式和多样化数据系统中的大量不同地球科学数据和数据类型的仓库的互操作性。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EarthCube（NSF的一项重大新举措）的开发中的关键能力（治理）创建路线图。社区/利益相关者的购买和采用标准;共同的工具和方法，如果可能的话;最佳实践;网络基础设施协议;和工作流程对于任何整体方法都是必不可少的，以创建一个可互操作的和面向服务的架构，满足希望进行数据支持科学的地球科学研究社区的需求。获得资助的一系列在线/虚拟研讨会将吸引地球科学界的广泛参与，被认为是创新和令人兴奋的，特别是拟议的社交网络推广实用程序的应用，以吸引早期职业科学家和学生。该项目的一个主要交付成果将是一个路线图，说明如何在建立广泛商定的结构方面取得进展，以监督相关工作组和概念赠款中EarthCube活动的发展。这项工作的更广泛影响包括就共同商定的进程达成一致，以便就是否应制定标准或具体议定书以及如果应制定标准或具体议定书，则应制定何种标准或议定书作出决定。它们还包括促进通常彼此不互动的群体（地球科学和网络基础设施及计算机科学群体）之间的密切互动，并将其重点放在创建地球科学数据和知识管理新模式的共同目标上。

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 (governance) in the development of EarthCube, a major new NSF initiative. Community/stakeholder buy-in and adoption of standards; common tools and aproaches, if possible; best practices; cyberinfrastructure protocols; and workflows are essential to any holistic approach to creating an interoperable and service-oriented architecture that serves the needs of the geoscience research community wishing to do data-enabled science. The funded series of online/virtual workshops that will engage a brod spectrum of the geoscience community were considered innovative and exciting, especially the proposed application of social networking outreach utilities to engage early career scientists and students. A prime deliverable of the project will be a road map of how to move forward in terms of setting up broadly agreed upon structures to oversee the development of EarthCube activities in the associated working groups and concept grants. Broader impacts of the work include converging on mutually agreed upon processes to allow decision making with regard to whether or not standards or specific protocols should be established, and if so what they should be. They also include the fostering of close interaction between communities that do not commonly interact with one another (the geosciences and those in cyberinfrastructure and computer science) and focusing them on the common goal of creating a new paradigm in data and knowledge management in the geosciences.