Collaborative Research: Geo-Visualization and Data Analysis using the Magnetics Information Consortium

磁学信息联盟(MAGIC)的目标是为岩石和古地磁数据开发一个开放的社区数字数据档案馆，其门户网站允许用户自由访问、搜索、可视化和下载这些数据，以提高地球科学的研究能力。已经取得了很大的进展，它拥有4,000多份科学出版物的数据和最先进的用户搜索界面。有了这一奖项，主要研究人员将他们目前的2年期赠款扩展为一个5年期的总体项目，以将魔术带入现代地球科学数据库与其他地球科学数据库(例如，与GPlates和IODP)的互操作领域，并通过EarthChem和Geochron等倡议，提供对地球化学信息和存储在MAGIC中的样本数据的辐射年龄的无缝访问。他们还将侧重于简化数据输入、提供个人工作空间、在线审查系统、简单的网络服务、提供谷歌的先进可视化工具，并让更多的研究人员参与存档和审查上传的数据，以保持档案的可靠性。

The goals of the Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC) are to develop an open communitydigital data archive for rock and paleomagnetic data with web portals that allow users freeaccess to archive, search, visualize and download these data to improve research capabilitiesin the Earth sciences. Much progress has been made, with data from more than 4,000 scientificpublications in its holdings and a state-of-the-art user search interface.With this award,the principal investigators extend their current 2-year grant into a 5-year overall project to bring MagIC into the realm of modern-day interoperability with other Earth Science databases (e.g. with GPlates and IODP), and with initiatives like EarthChem and Geochron, to provide seamless access to geochemistry information and radiometric ages on the sample data stored in MagIC. They also will focus on streamlining data entry, providing a personal workspace, an online review system, simple web services, providing advanced visualization tools from Google and involving more researchers in the archiving and reviewing uploaded data in order to maintain the reliability of the archive.