Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance: Continued Support for a Data Center that Allows Public Access and Discoverability of Solid Earth Geoscience Data from NSF-Funded Research

确保与纳税人资助的研究相关的结果和数据对科学界和非专业公众都是可访问和可发现的，这是美国国家科学基金会的一项基本职能。为了在固体地球科学领域为数据提供这样的服务，几个NSF项目联合资助了哥伦比亚大学的综合地球数据应用数据管理中心。自2009年以来，该数据中心已成为地球科学领域的重要资源，在海洋地球物理、火成岩岩石学和火山学、热液喷口、南极和其他各种固体地球科学学科的数据托管、访问和发现方面处于领先地位。在创建、测试和实现工具、实用程序和接口方面，它也是国际领先者，使其数据更容易访问和发现；为实物样本和数据集提供唯一标识符，使数据产生者的工作得到认可；使其数据可访问并与其他数据中心的数据相连接；与出版商合作，将存储库数据链接到出版物；帮助申请联邦资金的调查人员制定符合机构要求的数据管理计划。2016年的持续支持使数据中心能够继续提供这些服务和相关服务。更广泛的影响包括免费和开放获取广泛的数据，推动固体地球和极地地球科学研究的发展。数据中心的实用程序、服务和数据也广泛应用于各种教育企业，其影响范围从高中到研究生院甚至更远。通过其积极主动和以社区为中心的方法，该数据中心还帮助创建了数据互操作性的创新解决方案，构建了可被采用并传输到其他数据中心的重要新网络基础设施。对综合地球数据应用数据中心（现更名为综合地球数据联盟）的持续资助，使公众能够免费和开放地访问来自各种地球科学学科的数据和研究成果。它由核心的基本服务和接口组成，这些服务和接口围绕创新的数据模型和搜索/可视化工具构建，数据集或信息可以被纳入、集成并公开访问。它通过驻留在联邦部门的长期档案支持整个数据生命周期的数据管理。其业务的一个关键组成部分是密切关注它所服务的科学界成员并与之互动；社区谘询架构；还有专业的科学会议。这些交互有助于确定新的开发目标和差距，以及/或数据中心产品和性能所需的改进。除了继续运营和为固体地球科学社区提供网络基础设施和数据管理服务外，还在努力将数据存储转移到云端，以改善用户体验，减少下载和刷新时间。

Ensuring that the results and data related to taxpayer-funded research are accessible and discoverable to both the scientific and lay public is an essential function of the National Science Foundation. In an effort to provide such services for data in the solid earth geosciences, several NSF programs jointly funded the Integrated Earth Data Applications Data Management Center at Columbia University. Since 2009, this data center has become an important geoscience community resource and a leader in hosting, making accessible, and making discoverable data from marine geophysics, igneous petrology and volcanology, hydrothermal vents, the Antarctic, and a variety of other solid earth geoscience disciplines. It is also an international leader in creating, testing, and implementing tools, utilities, and interfaces to make its data more easily accessible and discoverable; providing unique identifiers for physical samples and datasets so those who produce data get credit for their work; making accessible and linking its data to that in other data centers; working with publishers to link repository data to publications; and helping investigators applying for Federal funds create agency-compliant data management plans. Continued support in 2016 allows the data center to continue these and associated services. Broader impacts include free and open access to a wide range of data holdings, enabling advances solid-earth and polar geoscience research. The data center's utilities, services, and data are also used in a wide variety of educational enterprises whose impacts range from high school to graduate school and beyond. Through its proactive and community-focused approach, the data center has also helped to create innovative solutions for data interoperability, building essential new cyberinfrastructure that can be adopted and transported to other data centers. Continued funding for the Integrated Earth Data Applications data center, now renamed the Integrated Earth Data Alliance, enables free and open public access to data and research results from a wide variety of geoscience disciplines. It consists of a core of basic services and interfaces built around innovative data models and search/visualization tools into which datasets or information can be incorporated, integrated, and made publicly accessible. It supports data stewardship through the full data life cycle with long-term archives residing in the Federal sector. A key component of its operation is close attention to and interaction with members of the scientific communities it serves thorough workshops; a community advisory structure; and professional science meetings. These interactions help identify new development targets and gaps and/or needed improvement in data center products and performance. In addition to its continued operation and the providing of cyberinfrastructure and data management services to the solid earth geoscience community, efforts are in force to move data holdings into the cloud to improve the user experience and decrease download and refresh times.