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

EarthCube的一个基本要求是能够获得全面的、精心策划的、可靠的可重复使用和无缝互操作的科学数据，但这在今天已经不存在，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有的数据设施IEDA(跨学科地球数据联盟)、缺乏数据设施(深海海底过程、矿物物理、极地冰冻圈)的固体地球科学中三个与科学有关的数据界、一个研究数据收集中心(MetPetDB)、一群专门从事分布式信息系统和互操作性的计算机科学家和一名社会科学家之间的协作，目的是在组织和架构上重建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，以便与之合作？目前服务不足？数据社区将扩大地球科学领域与EarthCube的整合，促进跨学科和特定学科的数据科学，同时通过共享共同的数据服务实现规模经济。使用IEDA作为试验台，该项目将采用EarthCube构建块项目已经或正在开发的三项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和可扩展的框架，使越来越多的伙伴系统能够接入综合数据发现和数据提交应用程序等共享能力，并贡献其资源。IEDA的架构变化将伴随着IEDA S组织结构向设想中的多机构联盟的转变。

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.