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。通过收集丰富的世界人口和农业普查数据并将其纳入IPUMS Terra基础设施，该项目将加强对关键政策相关问题的科学理解，如粮食和水安全、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。IPUMS Terra和在该项目下添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。这些研究人员的发现，以及记者、政府官员、非政府组织和教育工作者对数据的直接使用，将对教育、公众理解和知情决策做出重要贡献。该项目将把来自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。在这个项目下收集的大量地区人口和农业普查表格将弥补现有IPUMS Terra系统的重要不足。新的人口数据几乎涵盖了世界上每一个国家，使IPUMS Terra成为一个真正的全球资源。此外，汇总数据表将广泛的专题深度与精细的地理细节相结合，可以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、土地利用和土地覆盖数据，促进对人类与环境相互作用、粮食生产系统以及社会经济和环境脆弱性的全面检查。该项目有四个主要目标：1)开发数据操作工具，将不同格式的已发布表转换为标准化结构。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)在IPUMS Terra基础设施中处理、记录和摄取数万个表。4)对科学界、学生、政策制定者、记者和公众进行外展。

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.