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

科学的钻探取心对地球科学的发展至关重要。VastResources已投资于世界各地的钻探和取心作业：陆地、海洋和极地地区。必须通过确保通过钻探和取心项目产生的数据的最佳访问和可重用性来最大化这些投资的回报。这个名为开放核心数据(OCD)的项目是下一代数据管理方法，它将通过从根本上改进过去、现在和未来的钻探和取心项目的数据的可发现性、可获取性、可存取性、保存性和集成性，向新的和创新的科学用途开放现有和未来的地学数据的海量存储。国际海洋发现计划和大陆科学钻探社区的研究目标提供了令人印象深刻的例子，说明了钻探和取心有助于解决的科学主题的广泛性，从深层生物圈和大洋次海底的性质，到理解环境变化、物种、进化断裂带动力学、岩浆作用和构造等。因此，强迫症带来的科学潜力是巨大的，预计将对许多地球科学领域产生影响。OCD将形成联邦数据基础设施的核心，通过促进用于合成研究的大陆和海洋数据的整合，支持全新的科学方法和调查路线。OCD将与美国国家科学基金会的数据政策保持一致，提供对所有科学钻探数据的开放访问。通过这一努力，研究和将数据传输到档案馆的过程将得到简化和精简。Open Core Data将以最佳方式组织和集成科学钻探数据，使数据驱动的科学能够在发现、访问和格式方面面临与数据异构性相关的巨大障碍。开放核心数据将使在其工作流程中使用科学钻探和取心的地球科学领域更接近实现其数据的全部潜力，并随着新研究的实现而做出自己独特的新贡献，造福科学和社会。

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.