Collaborative Research: EarthCube Integration--Brokered Alignment of Long-Tail Observations (BALTO)

这个名为“长尾观测协调校准”（BALTO）的项目是由EarthCube项目支持的。开发团队试图构建一个工具和基础设施，以允许社区轻松提交不能轻松放入现有数据存储库的长尾观测数据。数据代理技术将被开发以完成研究的目标。研究生，包括来自代表性不足的少数群体的研究生，将通过该项目获得培训机会。为了便于对长尾观测的访问，本工作旨在为未来的EarthCube （EC）体系结构在体系结构和实施计划-长尾观测的协调校准（BALTO）中开发核心能力。BALTO需要一个开源接口，通过由用户开发的访问器实现的代理解决方案来发现、访问和转换地球科学数据源。BALTO整合了之前成功的电子商务构建模块，BCube和ODSIP的核心属性，以创建下一代电子商务能力。利用其庞大的安装基础和开源灵活性，BALTO将扩展Hyrax OPeNDAP的ODSIP数据服务器，使其具有分布式代理功能。该项目的结果将通过美国国家科学基金会资助的三个跨学科用例，包括大地测量学、地震学、水文学、海洋学和地球动力学，展示改善的获取途径及其对科学发现的影响。

This project, Brokered Alignment for Long-Tail Observations (BALTO), is supported under the EarthCube program. The development team seeks to build a tool and infrastructure to allow the community to easily submit long-tail observational data that cannot easily fit into existing data repositories. A data brokering technique will be developed to accomplish the goals of the study. Graduate students, including from underrepresented minority groups, will receive training opportunities via this project. To facilitate access to long-tail observations this work seeks to develop a core capability for the future EarthCube (EC) architecture in the Architecture and Implementation Plan - Brokered Alignment for Long-Tail Observations (BALTO). BALTO entails an open-source interface to discover, access and transform geoscience data sources through a brokering solution implemented by user-developed accessors. BALTO integrates core attributes of successful prior EC Building Blocks, BCube and ODSIP, to create a next generation EC capability. Leveraging its large installed base and its open-source flexibility, BALTO will extend Hyrax OPeNDAP's data server for ODSIP with capabilities for distributed brokering. Results from this project will demonstrate improved access and its impacts on scientific discovery via three NSF funded interdisciplinary use-cases that span geodesy, seismology, hydrology, oceanography, and geodynamics.