Collaborative Proposal: EarthCube Integration: THROUGHPUT: Standards and Services for Community Curated Repositories

数据异质性和可访问性是科学进步的主要障碍。为了满足科学界的需求，古地球科学领域出现了许多社区策划的数据存储库（CCDR），但这些 CCDR 并未得到很好的整合。该项目旨在通过打破为地球科学家服务的 CCDR 之间的障碍来改变地球科学研究。所有参与资源都与各自的学科社区密切合作，并且每个资源都在调动来自其社区的数据；关键需求是促进 CCDR 之间的数据交换。这项工作将使用一个系统来协调几个主要的 CCDR，该系统开发依赖于共同标准的新共享服务，并展示通过综合地球科学基础设施成为可能的新科学见解。该合作项目将完成以下任务：1）调查现有数据结构和标准、它们对古地球科学 CCDR 的适用性以及与古地球科学研究协调网络确定的要求的一致性及其采用程度。这将导致参与资源（EarthChem、Flyover Country、IODP、LacCore/CSDCO、LinkedEarth、Neotoma）采用的建议以及为地球科学受众编写的文档。 2) 使参与的 CCDR 与推荐标准保持一致，并开发通用 API，以允许 CCDR 之间以及与第三方用户进行数据交换。 3) 开发注释引擎，它将为科学家提供一个经过认证的众包系统，以标记数据集的更改、事后连接数据集、向遗留数据添加上下文，并在链接的数据集属性发生变化时在 CCDR 之间提供链接返回通知。注释引擎将嵌入到现有的基于 CCDR 的科学工作流程中，最大限度地减少对用户的干扰。 4) 开发 GeoNoteBase，使科学家能够生成可引用、可重复的工作流程，从跨数据资源中提取信息，并通过关键字搜索提供工作流程，并具有完整的归属。这是一项试点工作，旨在通过两个试点科学项目开始一些工作，THROUGHPUT 将测试和评估这些新功能，并展示可以通过集成获得的各种新的科学见解。

Data heterogeneity and accessibility are major barriers to scientific progress. Many community curated data repositories (CCDRs) have emerged in the paleogeosciences in response to the needs of their scientific communities, but these CCDRs are not well integrated. This project seeks to transform geoscientific research by breaking down the barriers among the CCDRs that serve geoscientists. All participating resources are closely engaged with their respective disciplinary communities and each is mobilizing data from its communities; the key need is to facilitate data interchange among CCDRs. The work will align several major CCDRs using a system that develops new shared services that rely on common standards, and demonstrates the kinds of new scientific insights that become possible with an integrated geoscientific infrastructure.This collaborative project will accomplish the following: 1) A survey of existing data structures and standards, their suitability for paleogeoscience CCDRs and alignment with requirements identified by the paleogeosciences research coordination network, and their degree of adoption. This will lead to recommendations for adoption by participating resources (EarthChem, Flyover Country, IODP, LacCore/CSDCO, LinkedEarth, Neotoma) and documentation written for geoscientific audiences. 2) Alignment of participating CCDRs to recommended standards and development of a common API that will allow data exchange among CCDRs and to third-party users. 3) Development of an Annotation Engine, which will provide a credentialed, crowd-sourced system for scientists to flag changes to datasets, to connect datasets post hoc, to add context to legacy data, and to provide link-back notification among CCDRs when linked dataset attributes change. Annotation Engine will be embedded into existing scientific CCDR-based workflows, minimizing disruption to users. 4) Development of GeoNoteBase to enable scientists to generate citeable, reproducible workflows that draw information from across data resources, with workflows made available through keyword searches, with full attribution. This is a pilot effort to begin some of the work Through two pilot scientific projects, THROUGHPUT will test and evaluate these new capabilities and demonstrate kinds of new scientific insights that can be gained through integration.