Integrated Data Management System for Critical Zone Observatories

该项目的目标是为美国国家科学基金会资助的关键区天文台（CZO）计划开发一个全面的综合数据管理系统，称为CZOData。CZOData的总体目标是支持、授权和扩大CZO科学的影响，并通过转换能力，轻松共享、集成、分析和保存CZO内部和跨CZO生成的广泛的多学科数据，最大限度地提高CZO项目的投资回报。CZOData的设计基于协作项目团队在构建当前CZOData原型和其他基础网络基础设施系统方面的经验。博尔德大学和斯特劳德水研究中心的主要研究人员是地球表面科学家，他们对CZOData原型进行了高层监督，并为科学界收集和使用CZO数据提供了直接联系。圣地亚哥超级计算中心（SDSC）和犹他州立大学（USU）的团队成员是水文信息系统（HIS）的主要开发者，该系统由水文科学促进会（CUAHSI）开发。哥伦比亚大学的团队成员开发并领导了综合地球数据应用（IEDA）、地球化学地球信息学（GfG）、地球化学和地球样本登记系统（SESAR）项目。华盛顿大学应用物理实验室的团队成员开发并维护了西北海洋观测系统协会（NANOOS）可视化系统（NVS）。该项目结合了最先进的计算机科学和网络基础设施技术以及国际元数据标准，并大力推动科学界参与开发和测试CZOData系统。这种协作的、以社区为基础的开发科学网络基础设施的方法得到了nsf支持的EarthCube计划的积极鼓励，从而补充了这些目标（http://www.nsf.gov/geo/earthcube/）。CZOData的方法是将基于站点的数据与系统功能（如一致的数据发布、编目、发现和访问基础设施）集成在一起。这些新功能将有力地利用上面描述的其他CI工作。由此产生的系统将支持新的CZO研究，这在以前是不可能的，同时减轻了CZO科学家的数据管理负担。设想是，拟议的CZOData将作为更大的地球表面科学界的模型。CZOData项目是一个协作的、社区指导的网络基础设施项目，用于集成多学科数据并提供与其他系统的互操作性。因此，CZOData将为其他大型地理信息学计划的发展提供信息，如开放地理空间联盟（OGC）、长期环境研究（LTER）观测站、DataOne、OpenTopography、国际地质样本编号实施组织（IGSN e.v）和综合海洋观测系统（IOOS）。此外，通过将系统研究和开发与研究生教育相结合，我们将致力于培养新一代的研究人员，他们在环境研究的不同方面以及先进的信息管理和计算方面都很熟练。

The objective of the project is to develop a comprehensive, integrated data management system for the NSF-funded Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) program, called CZOData. The overall goal for CZOData is to support, empower, and broaden the impact of CZO science and maximize the return on investment of the CZO program by transforming capabilities to easily share, integrate, analyze and preserve the wide range of multi-disciplinary data generated within and across CZOs. The CZOData design is based on the experience of the collaborative project team in building the current CZOData prototype and on other foundational cyber-infrastructure systems. The principal investigators at the University of Boulder and the Stroud Water Research Center are Earth surface scientists who provided high-level oversight of the CZOData prototype and provide a direct link to the scientific community collecting and using CZO data. Team members at San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) and Utah State University (USU) are primary developers of the Hydrological Information System (HIS) developed by the Consortium for the Advancement of Hydrological Sciences, Inc. (CUAHSI). Team members at Columbia University developed and lead the Integrated Earth Data Applications (IEDA), Geoinformatics for Geochemistry (GfG), EarthChem and the System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR) projects. Team members at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington developed and maintain the Northwest Association for Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS) Visualization System (NVS). This project combines state-of-the-art computer science and cyber-infrastructure technologies and international metadata standards with a strong effort to engage the science community in the process of developing and testing the CZOData system. This collaborative, community-based approach to developing scientific cyber-infrastructure has been actively encouraged by the NSF-supported EarthCube initiative and thus complements those goals (http://www.nsf.gov/geo/earthcube/). The approach with CZOData is based on integrating site-based data with system capabilities' such as consistent data publication, cataloguing, discovery and access infrastructure. These new capabilities will strongly leverage other CI efforts described above. The resulting system will support new CZO research that was not possible before while easing the data management burden on CZO scientists.The vision is that the proposed CZOData will serve as a model for the greater Earth surface science community. The CZOData project is a collaborative, community-guided cyber-infrastructure project for integrating multi-disciplinary data and providing interoperability with other systems. Thus, CZOData will inform the development of other large geoinformatics initiatives, such a the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Long-Term Environmental Research (LTER) observatories, DataOne, OpenTopography, the Implementing Organization of the International Geosample Number (IGSN e.v.), and the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). Also, by incorporating system research and development with graduate education, we will move towards cultivating a new generation of researchers skilled in both different facets of environmental research and in advanced information management and computing.