EarthCube Building Blocks: Collaborative Proposal: GeoSoft: Collaborative Open Source Software Sharing for Geosciences

EarthCube 构建模块：协作提案：GeoSoft：地球科学协作开源软件共享

• 批准号: 1440323
• 负责人: Yolanda Gil
• 金额: $ 104.8万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1440323&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EarthCube; Building; Blocks; Collaborative; Proposal

Geosciences software embodies crucial scientific knowledge, and as such it should be explicitly captured, curated, managed, and disseminated. The goal of this project is to create a system for software stewardship in geosciences that will empower scientists to manage their software as valuable scientific assets. Scientific software stewardship requires a combination of cyberinfrastructure, social infrastructure, and professional development infrastructure. The framework will result in an open transparent and broader access to scientific software to other scientists, software professionals, students, and decision makers. It will significantly improve the adoption of open data and open software initiatives, improve reproducibility, and advance scientific scholarship.The proposed research will advance knowledge and understanding of scientific software as a valuable community asset that is worth sharing, curating, cataloging, validating, reusing, and maintaining. 1) Facilitating software publication through TurboSoft, a personal assistant (analogous to TurboTax) that guides a user through best practices. Users will choose the degree of investment they are willing to make in componentizing, describing, licensing, and maintaining their software. The system will encourage open source publication, the formation of communities around the software, and set up mechanisms for software citation and credit. 2) Enabling broad software dissemination through GeoSoft, a "software commons" for geosciences that will support software contributions (prepared through TurboSoft or otherwise), software discovery through multi-faceted search, and foster social interactions through dynamic formation of communities of interest. GeoSoft will interoperate with existing software repositories and modeling frameworks in geosciences. 3) Providing just-in-time training materials through GeoCamp, an annotated collection of educational units ranging from basic education to professional training on all aspects of software stewardship. GeoCamp will be seamlessly integrated with TurboSoft and GeoSoft, and present a wide range of options for learning in the context of a user?s context of interaction with the framework or independently.

地球科学软件体现了至关重要的科学知识，因此应明确捕获，策划，管理和传播。该项目的目的是为地球科学中的软件管理建立一个系统，该系统将使科学家将其软件作为宝贵的科学资产管理。科学软件管理需要结合网络基础设施，社会基础设施和专业发展基础设施。该框架将为其他科学家，软件专业人士，学生和决策者提供开放透明，更广泛的科学软件访问权限。它将显着提高开放数据和开放软件计划的采用，提高可重复性并提高科学奖学金。拟议的研究将提高对科学软件的知识和理解，作为值得分享，策划，分类，验证，重复使用和维护的宝贵社区资产。 1）通过Turbosoft（类似于TurboTax）来促进软件出版物，可指导用户通过最佳实践。用户将选择他们愿意在组成，描述，许可和维护其软件方面进行的投资程度。该系统将鼓励开源出版物，围绕软件的社区形成，并为软件引用和信用设置机制。 2）通过Geosoft启用广泛的软件传播，Geosoft是一种用于地理科学的“软件共享”，该地理学将支持软件贡献（通过TurboSoft或其他方式准备），通过多方面搜索进行软件发现，并通过动态的感兴趣社区来促进社交互动。 Geosoft将与地球科学中现有的软件存储库和建模框架进行互操作。 3）通过GeoCamp提供即时的培训材料，这是一个带注释的教育单位集合的收集，从基础教育到有关软件管理各个方面的专业培训。地理样板将与Turbosoft和Geosoft无缝集成，并在用户与框架或独立互动的背景下提供各种各样的学习选择。