EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: Cross-Domain Observational Metadata Environmental Sensing Network (X-DOMES)

EarthCube IA：协作提案：跨域观测元数据环境传感网络（X-DOMES）

• 批准号: 1540849
• 负责人: Krzysztof Janowicz
• 金额: $ 5.53万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1540849&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EarthCube; IA; Collaborative; Proposal; Cross

Across-domains, agencies and political boundaries, our environment is being continuously observed and studied. The researchers in this project are looking for short-term, near-term and long-term changes while researching new and evolving methods to observe properties and to process the collected observations. Emerging technologies enable us to provide and discover the data openly and freely. But, if we do not understand the newly discovered data, with its inherent limitations and biases, it cannot be responsibly utilized for new or collaborative research efforts. Working with environmental sensor manufacturers and researchers, the X-DOMES project will develop tools and social and technical infrastructure to facilitate the creation of data about data (metadata). Metadata describes not only who, when and where the observations were made, but also it must document how an observation came to be (provenance). By taking this knowledge out of manuals and human-readable documents, the X-DOMES model creates metadata that can be treated like data ? discoverable and searchable, making it ready to be incorporated into automated archival and processing for quality assurance and validation methods. Leveraging existing relationships with large NSF-funded data management programs, EarthCube building blocks and working groups, and environmental sensor manufacturers and consortia, we will establish a community of sensor manufacturers and other stakeholders to provide a unifying approach to describing sensors and observations across geo-science domains. Built on an existing sensor metadata model that references registered, standards-based vocabularies, the X-DOMES pilot project will provide a suite of tools, built upon community-adopted standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to demonstrate and facilitate the generation of documents that are discoverable and accessible on-line and/or directly from onboard sensor descriptions. The project will also demonstrate mechanisms to associate the data with the metadata through standards-based web services. With vendor-ready tools implemented throughout a broad-based community, the X-DOMES Network will lay the foundation for the development of and adoption of interoperable access to much needed content-rich sensor metadata.

跨越领域、机构和政治界限，我们的环境正在不断地被观察和研究。 该项目的研究人员正在寻找短期，近期和长期的变化，同时研究新的和不断发展的方法来观察属性和处理收集到的观察结果。 新兴技术使我们能够公开和自由地提供和发现数据。 但是，如果我们不了解新发现的数据，由于其固有的局限性和偏见，它不能负责任地用于新的或合作的研究工作。 X-DOMES项目将与环境传感器制造商和研究人员合作，开发工具以及社会和技术基础设施，以促进创建有关数据的数据（元数据）。 元数据不仅描述了谁、何时、何地进行了观察，而且还必须记录观察是如何产生的（出处）。 通过将这些知识从手册和人类可读的文档中提取出来，X-DOMES模型创建了可以像数据一样对待的元数据。可检索和可搜索，使其随时可以纳入自动存档和处理，用于质量保证和验证方法。利用与NSF资助的大型数据管理项目、EarthCube构建模块和工作组以及环境传感器制造商和联盟的现有关系，我们将建立一个传感器制造商和其他利益相关者的社区，以提供一种统一的方法来描述跨地球科学领域的传感器和观测。 X-DOMES试点项目建立在现有的传感器元数据模型（该模型参考了已注册的基于标准的词汇表）基础上，将提供一套工具，该工具建立在开放地理空间联盟（OGC）和万维网联盟（W3C）的社区采用的标准基础上，以演示和促进生成可在线和/或直接从机载传感器描述中检索和访问的文档。 该项目还将展示通过基于标准的网络服务将数据与元数据联系起来的机制。 通过在广泛的社区中实施供应商就绪工具，X-DOMES网络将为开发和采用对急需的内容丰富的传感器元数据的互操作访问奠定基础。