EarthCube Building Blocks: Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geoscience Interoperability (CINERGI)

EarthCube构建模块：用于地球科学互操作性的EarthCube资源社区清单（CINERGI）这个构建模块项目的重点是构建一个社区清单和地球科学信息资源知识库，以扩展互操作性准备工作，并应对寻找跨学科资源的挑战，评估其在特定研究场景中的适用性。并提供用于集成和重用来自多个领域的数据的工具。这个功能是几个EarthCube领域研讨会和路线图的报告中提到的一个关键的EarthCube任务。我们设想了一个综合系统，将地球科学资源、用户、出版物、使用信息和网络基础设施（CI）组件连接起来。它将通过集成用户对资源使用经验的反馈、在互操作性评估框架中提供资源特征、支持注册信息模型和词汇表之间的映射来辅助数据集成，从而补充现有数据发现目录中包含的信息。为了评估组件之间的互操作性，将实现一个开源验证机制。该系统将使社区能够通过在线用户界面输入和访问地球科学家，并将提供文档化的web服务api，以便库存信息可以很容易地浏览、分析和集成到新兴的EarthCube CI中。项目团队将与相关的EarthCube工作协作，包括构建块、rcn、domainworkshop和测试企业治理。pi将与选定的地球科学领域（地层学、水文学、关键带科学）的研究人员合作，在特定的研究背景下验证和展示CINERGI的先进功能。CINERGI是对社区对易于发现、评估和利用CI资源的需求的直接回应，许多EarthCube利益相关者表达了这一需求。它是地球科学CI的基本组成部分，将为所有领域的地球科学家提供有效和更明智的方式，利用现有和新兴资源进行富有成效和变革性的研究。它还将帮助CI专家和计算机科学家更好地将新的开发与现有资源（如词汇表、本体、数据交换协议或元数据模式）结合起来。

EarthCube Building Blocks: Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geoscience Interoperability(CINERGI) Collaborating Institutions: University of California San Diego, Arizona GeologicalSurvey, University of Chicago, Columbia University, The Open Geospatial Consortium This buildingblock project focuses on constructing a community inventory and knowledgebase on geoscienceinformation resources to extend work on interoperability-readiness and meet the challenge of finding resources acrossdisciplines, assessing their fitness for use in specific research scenarios, and providingtools for integrating and re-using data from multiple domains. This capability is a key EarthCubemission mentioned in reports of several EarthCube domain workshops and roadmaps. We envisiona comprehensive system linking geoscience resources, users, publications, usage information,and cyberinfrastructure (CI) components. It will supplement information included in existingdata discovery catalogs by integrating feedback from users on their experience with resources,by providing characterization of resources in an interoperability assessment framework, andby supporting registration of mappings between information models and vocabularies to assistdata integration. To assess interoperability among components an open source validation mechanismwill be implemented. The system will enable community input and access by geoscientists viaonline user interfaces, and will provide documented web service APIs so that inventory informationcan be easily browsed, analyzed, and integrated within the emerging EarthCube CI. The projectteam will collaborate with related EarthCube efforts, including Building Blocks, RCNs, domainworkshop and the Test Enterprise Governance. The PIs will work with researchers from selected geoscience domains(stratigraphy, hydrology, critical zone science) to validate and demonstrate advanced featuresof CINERGI in specific research context.CINERGI is a direct response to the communitys need for easy discovery, assessment, and utilizationof CI resources, expressed by many EarthCube stakeholders. It is a fundamental building blockof an Earth Science CI and will serve geoscientists across all domains to efficiently andin more informed manner use existing and emerging resources for productive and transformativeresearch. It will also help CI experts and computer scientists to align new developments betterwith existing resources such as vocabularies, ontologies, data exchange protocols, or metadataschemas.