EarthCube Conceptual Design: Enterprise Architecture for Transformative Research and Collaboration Across the Geosciences

EarthCube设计是一个复杂的社会技术系统，其中各领域子系统与以前断开的CI组件、人员和组织之间的通信使更全面、数据密集型的研究设计和知识共享成为可能。该项目的主要特点包括：(1)遵循并加强地学领域内和地学领域之间现有的数据、信息和知识交换模式；(2)将传统的？分层的网络基础设施组件(如信息源、目录、词汇表、服务、分析和建模工具)，其中CI组件支持学术交流、自组织和社交网络(如研究概况、问答系统、注释)；以及(3)支持EarthCube架构的持续演变。拟议的工作将与地球立方体的其他活动密切合作，从从事地球立方体的广泛地球科学家和CI专家以及来自一系列学术和商业项目的信息系统架构师那里获得意见。设计参数包括以下系统能力：a)通过考虑诸如链接数据、大数据和社会协作等成熟运动的影响而演变；b)处理地球科学信息的数量、复杂性和多样性；b)纳入新的信息和分析要求、工具和技术；(C)适应研究和数据管理的不同想法和方法；(D)最大限度地利用国家可持续发展基金目前对地球科学信息系统的投资。这一建筑规划的创新方面将包括三个组成部分。它将被设计为一个系统系统，即任何社区的基本信息对象和基础设施将被重复使用，但将以一种可以对其执行更高级别操作(例如，词汇混搭)的方式进行建模。它将以新出现的学术对象交流做法和协议为基础，这是一种旨在促进社区间研究合作和交流的范例。它将集中在一个由使用交换协议的科学家组成的社交网络上。社交网络将由人和他们在进行研究时选择分享的信息对象组成。

EarthCube design is a complex socio-technical systemof systems, in which communication between various domain subsystems and previously disconnected CI components,people and organizations enables more comprehensive, data-intensive research designs and knowledge sharing. The main features of project include an approach that:(1) follows and enhances existing patterns of data, information and knowledge exchange within and between geoscience domains, (2) integrates ?traditional? layered cyberinfrastructure components (e.g.information sources, catalogs, vocabularies, services, analysis and modeling tools) with CI components supporting scholarly communication, self-organization and social networking (e.g.research profiles, Q&A systems, annotations) and (3) supports continuous EarthCube architecturalevolution. The proposed work will be done in close collaboration with other EarthCube activities,taking input from a wide group of geoscientists and CI experts engaged in EarthCube, as well as information system architects from a range of academic and commercial projects.Design parameters include system abilities to: a) evolve by factoring in the impact of maturing movements like linkeddata, ?big data?, and social collaborations; b) handle the volume, complexity and diversity of geoscience information; (b) incorporate new informational and analytical requirements, tools, and techniques,(c)accommodate different ideas and approaches to research and data stewardship;(d)make best use of NSFs current investment in the geoscience CI.The innovative aspect of this architecture planning will include three component. It will be designed as a system of systems,i.e., the basic information objects and infrastructure of any community will be re-used, but will be modeled in a manner that higher-level operations(e.g., vocabulary mashup) can be performed on them. It will be based on emerging interchange practices and protocols for scholarly objects, a paradigm that will be designed to foster inter-community research collaboration and exchange. It will be centered on a social network of communicating scientists who will use the interchange protocols. The social network will consist of both people and the information objects they choose to share as they conduct research.