Collaborative Research: Open Core Data: Transformative Data Infrastructure for Integrating and Accessing Scientific Drilling and Coring Data

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Scientific drilling and coring is crucial for the advancement of the Earth Sciences. Vastresources have been invested in drilling and coring operations around the world: on land,in the oceans, and in the polar regions. The return of these investments must be maximizedby ensuring optimal access and re-usability of the data generated through drilling and coringprojects.This project, Open Core Data (OCD), is a next-generation approach to data management that willopen vast stores of existing and future geoscience data to new and innovative scientific use byradically improving discoverability, accessibility, citability, preservation, and integrationof data from past, current, and future drilling and coring projects.Research objectives of the International Ocean Discovery Program and ContinentalScientific Drilling communities provide impressive examples of the breadth of scientificthemes that drilling and coring helps address, ranging from the nature of the deep biosphereand oceanic sub-seafloor, to understanding environmental change, species evolution, faultzone dynamics, magmatism, and tectonics, among many others. The scientific potential enabledby OCD is therefore large and expected to impact many geoscience domains. OCD will form thenucleus of a federated data infrastructure that will support entirely new scientific approachesand lines of inquiry by facilitating integration of continental and marine data for synthesisstudies.OCD will align with NSF data policies to provide open access to all scientific drilling data.Both research and the process of transferring data to archives for permanent curation willbe simplified and streamlined through this effort. Open Core Data will structure and integratescientific drilling data optimally to enable data-driven science that faces substantial barriersat present related to data heterogeneity in discovery, access, and formats. Open Core Datawill enable geoscience domains that utilize scientific drilling and coring in their workflowsto come closer to realizing the full potential of their data, and to make their own uniquenew contributions that benefit science and society as new research is enabled.