EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance as a Model for Integrating Earthcube Technology Resources and Engaging the Broad Community

EarthCube 的一个基本要求是访问一系列精心策划、可靠可重用且无缝互操作的科学数据，但如今这一要求并不存在，因为许多地球科学领域仍然缺乏可持续的数据服务。该项目是固体地球科学中已建立的数据设施、IEDA（跨学科地球数据联盟）、三个缺乏数据设施（深海海底过程、矿物物理、极地冰冻圈）的科学相关的固体地球科学数据社区、一个研究数据收集（MetPetDB）、一组专门研究分布式信息系统和互操作性的计算机科学家以及一名社会科学家之间的合作，目的是在组织和架构上重新构建 IEDA 数据设施，以创建试点多机构和多学科的数据提供商联盟。目标是为其他数据设施创建一个模型，以便与迄今为止“服务不足”的数据设施合作。数据社区扩大了地球科学领域与 EarthCube 的整合，并推进跨学科和特定学科的数据科学，同时通过共享通用数据服务实现规模经济。该项目将使用 IEDA 作为测试平台，采用 EarthCube Building Block 项目已经或正在开发的三种 EarthCube 技术的元素：CINERGI（用于地球科学互操作性的 EarthCube 资源社区清单）、GeoWS（地球科学 Web 服务）和 GeoLink（语义 Web 技术），来构建联盟的架构，从而测试、验证并可能改进这些技术。技术工作将侧重于创建一个灵活且可扩展的框架，该框架将允许越来越多的合作伙伴系统插入共享功能，例如用于集成数据发现和数据提交的应用程序，并贡献其资源。 IEDA 的架构变化将与 IEDA 组织结构向设想的多机构联盟的转变同步进行。

A fundamental requirement for EarthCube is access to a comprehensive spectrum of well-curated, reliably re-usable, and seamlessly interoperable scientific data, but this does not exist today with many Geoscience domains still lacking sustainable data services. This project is a collaboration between an established data facility in the solid Earth sciences, IEDA (Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance), three scientifically related data communities in the solid Earth sciences that lack data facilities (deep seafloor processes, mineral physics, polar cryosphere), a research data collection (MetPetDB), a group of computer scientists that specialize in distributed information systems and interoperability, and a social scientist to re-structure the IEDA data facility, both organizationally and architecturally, to create the pilot of a multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary alliance of data providers. The goal is to create a model for other data facilities to partner with so far ?underserved? data communities to broaden integration of Geoscience domains into EarthCube, and advance both interdisciplinary and discipline-specific data science, while realizing economies of scale by sharing common data services. Using IEDA as a testbed, the project will adopt elements of three EarthCube technologies that have been or are being developed by EarthCube Building Block projects: CINERGI (Community INventory of EarthCube Resources for Geoscience Interoperability), GeoWS (Geoscience Web Services), and GeoLink (Semantic Web technology), to build the architecture of the alliance, thereby testing, validating, and potentially improving these technologies. The technical work will focus on creating a flexible and scalable framework that will allow a growing number of partner systems to plug into shared capabilities such as applications for integrated data discovery and data submission and contribute their resources. Architectural changes at IEDA will go hand-in-hand with the transition of IEDA?s organizational structure toward the envisioned multi-institutional alliance.