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

数据的异质性和可访问性是阻碍科学进步的主要障碍。在古地球科学中出现了许多社区策划数据存储库（ccdr），以响应其科学社区的需求，但这些ccdr没有很好地集成。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接触，每个资源都从其社区动员数据；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，该系统开发了依赖于共同标准的新共享服务，并展示了通过综合地球科学基础设施可能实现的各种新的科学见解。本合作项目将完成以下工作：1)调查现有的数据结构和标准，它们对古地球科学ccdr的适用性和与古地球科学研究协调网络确定的需求的一致性，以及它们的采用程度。这将通过参与资源（EarthChem, Flyover Country， IODP, LacCore/CSDCO, LinkedEarth, Neotoma）和为地球科学受众编写的文档提出采用建议。2)使参与的ccdr与推荐的标准保持一致，并开发一个通用API，允许ccdr之间和第三方用户之间的数据交换。3)开发一个注释引擎，它将为科学家提供一个认证的、众包的系统，用于标记数据集的变化，事后连接数据集，为遗留数据添加上下文，并在链接数据集属性发生变化时在ccdr之间提供链接回通知。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的、可重复的工作流，从跨数据资源中提取信息，通过关键字搜索提供工作流，并具有完整的归属。这是开始部分工作的试点工作。通过两个试点科学项目，THROUGHPUT将测试和评估这些新功能，并展示通过集成可以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.