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

地球立方体构建块：地球科学互操作性资源社区清单(CINERGI)合作机构：加州大学圣地亚哥分校，亚利桑那州地质调查局，芝加哥大学，哥伦比亚大学，开放地理空间联盟这个构建块项目专注于构建一个关于地球科学信息资源的社区清单和知识库，以扩展互操作性准备工作，应对寻找跨学科资源的挑战，评估其在特定研究方案中的适用性，并提供工具来集成和重新使用来自多个领域的数据。这一能力是几个EarthCube领域研讨会和路线图的报告中提到的一项关键的EarthCub排放。我们设想了一个全面的系统，将地学资源、用户、出版物、使用信息和网络基础设施(CI)组成部分联系起来。它将整合用户对其资源使用经验的反馈意见，在互操作性评估框架中提供资源特性，并支持登记信息模型和词汇之间的映射，以协助数据整合，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，将实施开放源码验证机制。该系统将允许地球科学家通过在线用户界面进行社区输入和访问，并将提供有文件记录的网络服务API，以便可以轻松地浏览、分析和集成正在出现的EarthCube CI中的库存信息。项目团队将与EarthCube的相关工作合作，包括构建块、RCN、域研讨会和测试企业治理。PIS将与选定的地球科学领域(地层学、水文学、临界带科学)的研究人员合作，在特定的研究背景下验证和演示CINERGI的先进功能。CINERGI直接响应了社区对轻松发现、评估和利用CI资源的需求，许多EarthCube利益相关者表达了这一需求。它是地球科学传播和信息系统的基本组成部分，将为所有领域的地球科学家提供服务，使他们能够更有效和更知情地利用现有和新兴资源进行生产性和变革性研究。它还将帮助CI专家和计算机科学家更好地使新的发展与现有的资源保持一致，如词汇、本体、数据交换协议或元数据模式。

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.