IEDA 2016-2021: Operation of a Multi-Disciplinary Data Facility for the Earth Science Community

IEDA 2016-2021：地球科学界多学科数据设施的运营

• 批准号: 1636653
• 负责人: Kerstin Lehnert
• 金额: $ 750.4万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1636653&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IEDA; 2016; 2021; Operation; Multi

Geoscience in the 21st century is increasingly data driven. Easy, reliable access to trustworthy, quality-controlled data on the Earth and its environment is critical for enabling the mining and analysis of multi-disciplinary datasets that make scientific breakthroughs happen and increase our knowledge of the Earth and the things that happen on and below its surface. The increasing number of large-volume, automatically-generated datasets; the need to convert important legacy data and datasets that are presently available only on paper in journals and other scientific publications; the need to educate students, faculty, and the public in proper data management and curation so they can access already-collected data or make their data useable by others; and the need to improve discovery of existing legacy data and combine information from disparate data types or that are in different formats is a major challenge not only for geoscience but for other fields of science as well. As a result, geoscience data increasingly need to be professionally managed and curated to both make these data easily and publicly available and to maximize their potential for use for research which can provide benefits to society. This funding renews support for the Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA), one of the premiere, NSF-funded, solid-earth, data repositories. IEDA provides discovery and public access to a large volume and variety of NSF-funded data as well as that from a number of other sources so these data can be used and reused by anyone. IEDA was established in 2009 from a series of independent data management/curation activities to provide a single clearinghouse with shared cyberinfrastructure and tools to help solid-earth, NSF-funded, researchers from the ocean, earth, and polar geosciences deposit their data for public access and to discover and reuse data collected by themselves and others to do new science. IEDA develops and operates the necessary databases, software tools, and services that support investigators with data stewardship and access throughout the full data life cycle, with a special focus on disciplines that typically generate and use complex, heterogeneous, structured and unstructured datasets that are particularly challenging to manage and combine. IEDA hosts and serves data that includes marine seismic data and bathymetry; rock and seafloor sediment and hydrothermal vent fluid geochemistry; geochronology; Antarctic research; information about physical samples; and other marine and earth science data. It also has developed and deployed map-based data discovery tools and compiled data products that enable quick identification of data and/or datasets of interest. Researchers from across the US and around the world have used IEDA data and tools and combined them in novel ways to study a wide variety of topics, such as providing new insights on the evolution of mid-ocean ridges and processes happening on continental margins, seafloor and hotspot processes, mantle geodynamics, geohazards, sediment transport between the continents and oceans, global geochemical cycles, and Earth surface processes. All of these would have been impossible or difficult to do in a timely manner without the use of IEDA data holdings and discovery tools. In addition to the broader impacts of promoting public access to important NSF-funded and other geoscience data, other broader impacts of the facility include development of a diverse and highly connected geoinformatics workforce, with a focus on promoting and training women in the field; student and postdoctoral training, within the facility, in data management and curation; education and training of students and faculty across the nation in the importance of data sharing, best practices in data collection and curation, metadata preparation, the processes for making data amenable for reuse and reanalysis by others, and in accessing IEDA and the data systems to which it is linked.The Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA) is a unique facility whose operations are based on a partnership of domain-specific data systems that are scientifically linked in their relevance for studies of the solid Earth. These systems share a common repository infrastructure and work together to offer integrated services for data submission and data discovery and access that support interdisciplinary research. IEDA shared services ensure broad discovery and persistent access of data submitted by both individual investigators and data acquisition facilities; and it maintains a close liaison with the science community to ensure that its services are aligned with the practices and requirements of its users. Key components of the IEDA system include repositories for file-based resources; a registry and metadata catalog of geoscience samples; web applications for data submission and sample registration; synthesis datasets for global seafloor topography and geochemistry; user interfaces for text-based and map-based data discovery and access; support for machine clients to submit and access data and metadata; and software for data visualization and exploration. IEDA also provides tools for data management planning and reporting to assist investigators with NSF data management policies. Global seafloor topography and solid-earth geochemical data are processed and synthesized for consistency and completeness, made accessible through web sites and web services, and are included as data layers in IEDA's data exploration software GeoMapApp. IEDA data curators review file-based data submissions for metadata quality to ensure that documentation is sufficient to support future reuse. Long-term archives for IEDA data consist of NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information or the Columbia University Long-Term Archive for data preservation. IEDA uses open-source, standards-based technologies to promote interoperable systems for exchanging data and information and foster next-generation geoscience research.

21世纪的地球科学越来越受数据驱动。简单、可靠地获取值得信赖、质量可控的地球及其环境数据，对于挖掘和分析多学科数据集至关重要，这些数据集可以实现科学突破，并增加我们对地球及其表面下发生的事情的了解。越来越多的大容量自动生成的数据集；需要转换目前只能在期刊和其他科学出版物上以纸张形式提供的重要遗留数据和数据集；需要对学生、教师和公众进行适当的数据管理和管理教育，使他们能够访问已收集的数据或使其数据可供他人使用；改进现有遗留数据的发现，并将来自不同数据类型或不同格式的信息组合起来，这不仅是地球科学的主要挑战，也是其他科学领域的主要挑战。因此，越来越需要专业地管理和整理地球科学数据，使这些数据易于公开获取，并最大限度地发挥其用于研究的潜力，从而为社会带来好处。这笔资金更新了对跨学科地球数据联盟（IEDA）的支持，IEDA是nsf资助的首个固体地球数据存储库之一。IEDA提供了对nsf资助的大量数据以及其他来源的数据的发现和公共访问，因此任何人都可以使用和重用这些数据。IEDA成立于2009年，由一系列独立的数据管理/管理活动组成，提供一个具有共享网络基础设施和工具的单一信息交换中心，帮助来自固体地球、美国国家科学基金会资助的海洋、地球和极地地球科学的研究人员将他们的数据存储给公众访问，并发现和重用他们自己和他人收集的数据，以开展新的科学研究。IEDA开发和运营必要的数据库、软件工具和服务，支持研究人员在整个数据生命周期中进行数据管理和访问，特别关注通常生成和使用复杂、异构、结构化和非结构化数据集的学科，这些数据集在管理和组合方面特别具有挑战性。IEDA托管和提供的数据包括海洋地震数据和水深测量；岩石、海底沉积物和热液喷口流体地球化学；地质年代学;南极研究;物理样本信息；以及其他海洋和地球科学数据。它还开发和部署了基于地图的数据发现工具，并编译了能够快速识别感兴趣的数据和/或数据集的数据产品。来自美国和世界各地的研究人员使用IEDA数据和工具，并以新颖的方式将它们结合起来，研究各种各样的主题，例如提供关于大洋中脊的演变和大陆边缘、海底和热点过程、地幔地球动力学、地质灾害、大陆和海洋之间的沉积物运输、全球地球化学循环和地球表面过程的新见解。如果不使用IEDA数据存储和发现工具，所有这些都不可能或难以及时完成。除了促进公众获得nsf资助的重要地球科学数据和其他地球科学数据的更广泛影响外，该设施的其他更广泛影响还包括发展多样化和高度互联的地理信息学劳动力，重点是促进和培训该领域的女性；学生和博士后培训，在设施内，在数据管理和策展；在数据共享的重要性、数据收集和管理的最佳实践、元数据准备、使数据易于重用和重新分析的过程以及访问IEDA及其所关联的数据系统方面，对全国的学生和教师进行教育和培训。跨学科地球数据联盟（IEDA）是一个独特的设施，其运作基于特定领域数据系统的伙伴关系，这些数据系统与固体地球研究的相关性在科学上联系在一起。这些系统共享一个公共存储库基础设施，并协同工作，为数据提交、数据发现和访问提供集成服务，支持跨学科研究。IEDA共享服务确保广泛发现和持续访问个人调查人员和数据获取设施提交的数据；它还与科学界保持着密切的联系，以确保它的服务与用户的实践和需求保持一致。IEDA系统的关键组成部分包括基于文件的资源存储库；地球科学样本的注册表和元数据目录；数据提交和样本注册的网上应用程序；全球海底地形和地球化学综合数据集；基于文本和基于地图的数据发现和访问的用户界面；支持机器客户端提交和访问数据和元数据；以及数据可视化和探索软件。IEDA还为数据管理规划和报告提供工具，以协助NSF数据管理政策的调查人员。为了一致性和完整性，对全球海底地形和固体地球化学数据进行了处理和合成，通过网站和网络服务可访问，并作为数据层包含在IEDA的数据探索软件GeoMapApp中。IEDA数据管理员审查基于文件的数据提交，以确保元数据质量，以确保文档足以支持未来的重用。IEDA数据的长期档案由NOAA的国家环境信息中心或哥伦比亚大学的数据保存长期档案组成。IEDA使用开源、基于标准的技术来促进数据和信息交换的互操作系统，并促进下一代地球科学研究。

项目成果

Persistent, Global, Unique: The three key requirements for a trusted identifier system for physical samples

持久、全球、独特：物理样本可信标识符系统的三个关键要求

• DOI: 10.3897/biss.3.37334
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
• 作者: Lehnert, Kerstin;Klump, Jens;Wyborn, Lesley;Ramdeen, Sarah
• 通讯作者: Ramdeen, Sarah

The Importance of Storing and Delivering Geochemical Data for Earth Science Collections

存储和提供地球科学数据的地球化学数据的重要性

• DOI: 10.3897/biss.3.37220
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
• 作者: Miller, Giles;Lehnert, Kerstin
• 通讯作者: Lehnert, Kerstin