Collaborative Proposal: EarthCube Integration: Accelerating Scientific WorkflowS using EarthCube Technologies (ASSET)

地球科学的一个主要需求是减少地球科学家在“数据争论”任务(查找、访问、细分、网格化、处理、重新格式化、可视化)上花费的时间，以便他们可以将更多时间花在复杂的科学分析上。该项目将为科学家开发一种方法，以记录并与他们创建科学结果所需的所有数据管理和分析工具进行交互，并将添加工具，以在他们的工作中找到共同模式，以帮助找到可以减少产生结果所需时间的工具。这项工作还可能有助于使方法和分析更加透明，因为它提供了跟踪产生科学结果的步骤的手段。该项目建立在网络基础设施专家和地球科学家之间的关系基础上，审查当前的科学工作流程和EarthCube工具的集成。这项工作将包括一个工作流程草图界面，以指定步骤、依赖项、当前工具、当前持续时间以及科学家工作流程的其他重要方面。作为拟议的试点项目的一部分，该小组将详细审查两个地球科学使用案例(飓风风险和水资源)，并指派网络基础设施专家将EarthCube工具整合到这些科学工作流程中，以展示实现的生产率提高。此外，该小组将在一个主要的地球科学会议上举办研讨会/诊所，从社区收集更多的使用案例，地球科学家将在那里描述他们的工作流程，并接受关于使用EarthCube工具的个性化建议。如果成功，研究人员可能会扩大这一试点项目，在其他地点举办更多研讨会，并将更多科学工作流程映射到相应的EarthCube技术。

A major need in the geosciences is to reduce the amount of time geoscientists spend on "data wrangling" tasks (finding, accessing, subsetting, gridding, processing, reformatting, visualizing) so that they can spend more time on complex scientific analysis. This project will develop a means for scientists to document and interact with all of the data management and analysis tools that they need to create a scientific result, and it will add tools to find common patterns in their work to help find tools that could reduce the time needed to produce the result. This work may also help to make moethods and analyses more transparent by providing the means to track the steps in creating a scientific result.This project builds on relationships among cyberinfrastructure experts and geoscientists examine current scientific workflows and the integration of EarthCube tools. The work will include a workflow sketching interface to specify the steps, dependencies, current tools, current duration, and other important aspects of a scientist's workflow. As part of the proposed pilot project, the team will examine two geoscience use cases (hurricane risk and water resources) in detail and assign cyberinfrastructure experts to integrate EarthCube tools into these science workflows, to demonstrate the increases in productivity that are realized. In addition, the team will conduct a workshop/clinic at a major geoscience conference to collect additional use cases from the community, where geoscientists will describe their workflows and receive personalized advice on the use of EarthCube tools. If successful, the researchers may expand on this pilot project to conduct many more workshops at other venues and to map many more scientific workflows to corresponding EarthCube technologies.