Integrated Data Management System for Critical Zone Observatories

该项目的目标是为NSF资助的临界区天文台(CZO)计划开发一个全面、集成的数据管理系统，称为CZOData。CZOData的总体目标是支持、支持和扩大CZO科学的影响，并通过转变能力来轻松共享、集成、分析和保存CZO内部和跨CZO产生的广泛的多学科数据，最大限度地提高CZO计划的投资回报。CZOData的设计是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原型进行高级别监督，并提供与收集和使用CZO数据的科学界的直接联系。圣地亚哥超级计算中心(SDSC)和犹他州立大学(USU)的团队成员是由水文科学促进联盟(CUAHSI)开发的水文信息系统(HIS)的主要开发者。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程序(IEDA)、地球化学地球信息学(GFG)、地球化学和地球样品登记系统(SESAR)项目。华盛顿大学应用物理实验室的团队成员开发和维护了西北海洋观测系统协会可视化系统(NVS)。该项目将最先进的计算机科学和网络基础设施技术与国际元数据标准结合起来，大力推动科学界参与开发和测试CZOData系统的进程。这种合作的、基于社区的方法来开发科学的网络基础设施，得到了美国国家科学基金会支持的地球立方倡议的积极鼓励，从而补充了这些目标(http://www.nsf.gov/geo/earthcube/).CZOData的方法基于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)相结合。这些新功能将有力地利用上述其他CI工作。由此产生的系统将支持CZO的新研究，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。CZOData项目是一个合作的、社区引导的网络基础设施项目，旨在整合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举措的发展提供信息，例如开放地理空间联盟、长期环境研究观测站、DataOne、开放地形、国际地理样本编号实施组织和综合海洋观测系统。此外，通过将系统研究和开发与研究生教育相结合，我们将朝着培养新一代研究人员的方向迈进，这些研究人员既精通环境研究的不同方面，也精通高级信息管理和计算。

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.