EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences

该项目建立并运行了地球立方体研究协调网络(RCN)合作和古地球科学网络基础设施(C4P)，以促进网络基础设施(CI)在通过研究地质记录来揭示大规模、长期地球生命系统演化中的作用。对我们大规模、长期地球生命系统的古地理科学研究是一个雄心勃勃的计划，它向公众提供关于人类对地球的管理的辩论，并自成立以来，在环境变化下的物种生存等问题上激发了公众的想象力。在过去的十年里，新的发现，加上测量、数据分析和建模等新技术的应用，使这门科学重新焕发生机。利用计算和数学的最新进展将进一步加快科学的发现、合成和发表的步伐。这个RCN旨在促进和发展古地质学家、古生物学家、生物信息学家、地层学家、地质年代学家、地理学家、数据科学家和计算机科学家之间以CI为重点的合作和伙伴关系，这将有助于消除现有的智力障碍，极大地改进现代数据管理方法、数据挖掘技术和计算方法的应用，以更好地分析古地球科学和其他领域和学科内沉积物、岩石和冰中地球记录的异质和稀疏数据。设想的活动包括一系列协调的研讨会和网络研讨会、网络联网、外联活动，如专题讨论会和市政厅会议，以及跨地球立方体协调，以及创建一个可操作的C4P资源目录，该目录将与其他地球立方体资源清单整合。C4P中的优先主题是管理和表示数据模型中的年龄和年龄不确定性，并进行计算以促进与时间相关的数据类型之间的互操作性和分析，将实物样本整合到数字数据基础设施中，以及需要适当跟踪数据的来源并确定其来源，以确保对数据的信任和对作者的信任。

This project establishes and operates the EarthCube Research Coordination Network (RCN)Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences (C4P) to advance the role of cyberinfrastructure(CI) in unraveling the large-scale, long-term evolution of the Earth-Life System through thestudy of the geological record.Paleogeosciences research into our large-scale, long-term Earth-Life system is an ambitiousprogram that informs public debate on human stewardship of the earth and has - since its inception- caught public imagination on issues such as species survival under environmental changes.In the last decade, fresh discoveries, plus the application of new technologies of measurement,data analysis, and modeling have revitalized the science. Bringing to bear recent advancesin computing and mathematics will further quicken the pace of discoveries, synthesis and publicationin the science. This RCN intends to stimulate and grow CI-focused collaborations andpartnerships among paleogeoscientists, paleobiologists, bioinformaticists, stratigraphers,geochronologists, geographers, data scientists, and computer scientists that will help dissolveexisting intellectual barriers to dramatically improve the application of modern data managementapproaches, data mining technologies, and computational methods to better analyze the heterogeneousand sparse data of the Earth record in sediments, rocks, and ice within the paleogeosciencesand other domains and disciplines.Activities envisioned include a series of coordinated workshops and webinars, web-enabled networking, outreach events suchas symposia and town-hall meetings, and cross-EarthCube coordination, and creation of an interoperableC4P resource catalog that will be integrated with other EarthCube resource inventories. High-prioritythemes in C4P are the management and representation of age and age uncertainty in data modelsand computation to advance interoperability among and analysis of time-referenced data types,the integration of physical samples into digital data infrastructure, and the need to properlytrack and attribute provenance of data to ensure trust in the data and credit to authors.