RIDIR: IPUMS-Terra: Global Population and Agricultural Data

IPUMS Terra整合，保存和传播描述人口和环境特征的数据。通过收集世界人口和农业普查数据并将其纳入IPUMS Terra基础设施，该项目将提高对粮食和水安全、移民、社会经济和环境脆弱性以及社会和环境政策对经济发展、福祉和长期可持续性的影响等关键政策相关问题的科学认识。IPUMS Terra和在该项目下增加的数据将被来自广泛学科的学术研究人员使用，包括生态学家，社会学家，经济学家，农学家和许多其他人，以调查与人与环境相互作用有关的重要问题。沿着这些研究人员的调查结果，以及记者、政府官员、非政府组织和教育工作者直接使用的数据，将对教育、公众理解和知情决策作出重要贡献，该项目将把1 000多个人口和农业普查的数据纳入IPUMS Terra。IPUMS Terra技术使不同科学学科常用的不同格式的数据易于互操作。该项目下大量收集的地区一级人口和农业普查表将填补现有IPUMS Terra系统中的重要空白。新的人口数据几乎覆盖了世界上的每个国家，使IPUMS Terra成为真正的全球资源。此外，汇总数据表将联合收割机广泛的专题深度与精细的地理细节相结合，从而能够详细研究人口和农业特征。最后，新的农业普查数据将补充IPUMS Terra中已有的人口数据和土地利用及土地覆盖数据，促进对人类与环境的相互作用、粮食生产系统以及社会经济和环境脆弱性的全面审查。该项目有四个主要目标：1）开发数据操作工具，将不同格式的发布表格转换为标准化结构。2)扩展元数据和工作流管理工具，以捕获描述每个数据元素的内容和来源的元数据。3)处理、记录和摄取数以万计的表到IPUMS Terra基础设施中。4)对科学界以及学生、政策制定者、记者和公众进行宣传。

IPUMS Terra integrates, preserves, and disseminates data describing characteristics of the human population and the environment. By assembling a rich collection of the world's population and agricultural census data and incorporating it into the IPUMS Terra infrastructure, this project will enhance scientific understanding of critical policy-related issues such as food and water security, migration, socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability, and the effects of social and environmental policy on economic development, well-being, and long-run sustainability. IPUMS Terra and the data added under this project will be used by academic researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including ecologists, sociologists, economists, agronomists, and many others, to investigate important questions related to human-environment interactions. The findings of these researchers, along with direct use of the data by journalists, governmental officials, non-governmental organizations, and educators, will make important contributions to education, public understanding, and informed policy decisions.This project will incorporate data from over 1,000 population and agricultural censuses into IPUMS Terra. IPUMS Terra technology makes data from different formats commonly used by different scientific disciplines easily interoperable. The massive collections of area-level population and agricultural census tables incorporated under this project will address important gaps in the existing IPUMS Terra system. The new population data cover nearly every country in the world, making IPUMS Terra a truly global resource. In addition, aggregate data tables combine extensive topical depth with fine geographic detail, enabling detailed study of population and agricultural characteristics. Finally, the new agricultural census data will complement both population data and land use and land cover data already in IPUMS Terra, facilitating comprehensive examinations of human-environment interactions, food production systems, and socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability. This project has four main objectives: 1) Develop data manipulation tools to transform diversely formatted published tables into a standardized structure. 2) Extend metadata and workflow management tools to capture metadata describing the contents and provenance of each data element. 3) Process, document, and ingest tens of thousands of tables into the IPUMS Terra infrastructure. 4) Conduct outreach to the scientific community as well as students, policy makers, journalists, and the general public.