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全面的、精心策划的、可靠可重用的、无缝互操作的科学数据，但目前这还不存在，许多地球科学领域仍然缺乏可持续的数据服务。该项目是一个已建立的固体地球科学数据设施，IEDA（跨学科地球数据联盟），三个缺乏数据设施的固体地球科学科学相关数据社区（深海海底过程，矿物物理，极地冰冻圈），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之间的合作，以及一位社会科学家，从组织和架构上重新构建IEDA数据设施，以创建一个多机构和多学科数据提供者联盟的试点。目标是为其他数据设施创建一个模型，以便与目前服务不足的数据设施合作。数据社区，以扩大地球科学领域与EarthCube的集成，并推进跨学科和特定学科的数据科学，同时通过共享公共数据服务实现规模经济。利用IEDA作为测试平台，该项目将采用EarthCube构建块项目已经或正在开发的三种EarthCube技术的元素：CINERGI（地球科学互操作性地球立方体资源社区清单）、GeoWS（地球科学网络服务）和GeoLink（语义网技术），以构建联盟的体系结构，从而测试、验证并潜在地改进这些技术。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的过渡同步进行。向设想的多机构联盟的组织结构。

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.