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，可靠可重用和无缝互操作的科学数据，但这在今天并不存在，许多地球科学领域仍然缺乏可持续的数据服务。该项目是固体地球科学中一个已建立的数据设施IEDA（跨学科地球数据联盟），缺乏数据设施的固体地球科学领域的三个科学相关数据社区（深海底过程、矿物物理学、极地冰冻圈），研究数据集（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，以及一位重新构建IEDA数据设施的社会科学家，在组织和结构上，建立一个多机构和多学科的数据提供者联盟的试点。其目标是为迄今为止与之合作的其他数据设施创建一个模型？服务不足？数据社区，以扩大地球科学领域到EarthCube的整合，并推进跨学科和特定学科的数据科学，同时通过共享共同的数据服务实现规模经济。以IEDA为试验平台，该项目将采用EarthCube Building Block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EarthCube资源社区库存），GeoWS（地球科学网络服务）和GeoLink（语义网络技术），以构建联盟的体系结构，从而测试，验证和潜在地改进这些技术。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插入共享功能，如用于综合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的过渡齐头并进？的组织结构向设想的多机构联盟。

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.