Collaborative Proposal: Web-based Geo-Visualization and Laboratory Integration with the Magnetics Information Consortium

合作提案：基于网络的地理可视化和实验室与磁学信息联盟的集成

• 批准号: 1822351
• 负责人: Anthony Koppers
• 金额: $ 71.56万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-15 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1822351&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Proposal; Web; based; Geo

This award continues support for the Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC). The goal of MagIC is to develop and maintain an open community digital data archive for published rock and paleomagnetic data. This will allow researchers and other users continued free access to archive, search, visualize, manipulate and download these data, thereby improving research capabilities and ensuring ongoing access to previously collected data in the Earth Sciences. Since 2003, MagIC`s development has been funded by NSF as a domain-specific enterprise, and has recently transitioned to a modern system that will allow development of improved capacity to link to other data collections necessary to harness data addressing significant long term research problems in paleomagnetic and rock magnetic research. These include (i) understanding of past climate changes and their relation to the Earth`s magnetic field; (ii) the timing of the appearance and growth of the Earth`s solid inner core and the associated influences on the geomagnetic field; (iii) the geodynamics of the Earth`s mantle, where magnetic data are crucial in determining the fixity of mantle plumes and the possibility of true polar wander, (iv) biogeomagnetism, and (v) magnetism at high pressures and in extra-terrestrial bodies, including other planets. MagIC provides fundamental tools online for data interpretation and geo-visualization. Training of the next generation in the development and use of modern data analysis methods is a key component of this initiative. A major overhaul of MagIC`s architecture has been undertaken, including transitioning to the open source GitHub repository so that community input can drive software development. The database backend (using MongoDB and Elasticsearch) and web interface (using Meteor with React and Semantic UI) have been completely rewritten and the underlying data model (now version 3.0) has been drastically simplified. Flexible procedures for archiving data via web interfaces have been developed to improve the user experience and address the needs of the paleomagnetic and rock magnetic community. This has been a drastic effort, but the new architecture is ready for expanded business. Modern scientific efforts require efficient access to data, transparency in data processing, and reliable documentation so that questions of reproducibility and standardization can be readily addressed. A key aspect of our past and future work is the establishment of individualized workflow schemas for understanding all aspects of any study from field metadata, through lab measurements, and interpreted results. This facilitates integration of data from disparate studies, and gives full control to the data user in determining data quality and suitability for specific purposes. It is also rapidly developing into a requirement for geoscience publications. Work under this proposal will focus on five areas: (i) assisting paleomagnetic labs in development and implementation of transparent workflow strategies to archive their data; (ii) adding new search, visualization, and API features to MagIC; (iii) interoperability with other magnetics databases; (iv) additions to PmagPy data processing tools, including reproducibility via the use of Jupyter notebooks; (v) making make other data sources, such as IODP, accessible in MagIC; (vi) data rescue operations to ensure that valuable existing information is not lost to future researchers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项继续支持磁信息联盟（魔术）。 魔术的目的是为已发表的岩石和古磁数据开发和维护开放的社区数字数据存档。这将使研究人员和其他用户继续免费访问存档，搜索，可视化，操纵和下载这些数据，从而提高研究功能并确保持续访问地球科学中先前收集的数据。自2003年以来，魔术的开发已由NSF作为特定领域的企业资助，并且最近已转移到现代系统，该系统将允许发展能力的发展能力，以链接到解决古老磁性和岩石磁性研究中重大长期研究问题所必需的其他数据收集。这些包括（i）了解过去气候变化及其与地球磁场的关系； （ii）地球固体内核的外观和生长的时机以及对地磁场的相关影响； （iii）地球地幔的地球动力学，其中磁数据对于确定地幔羽固定性以及真正极地徘徊的可能性至关重要，（iv）生物地球磁磁性以及（v）高压和磁性的磁性在高压力和外星物体上（包括其他行星）。魔术在线提供了基本工具，用于数据解释和地理访问。在现代数据分析方法的开发和使用中对下一代的培训是该计划的关键组成部分。已经进行了魔术架构的重大大修，包括过渡到开源GitHub存储库，以便社区输入可以推动软件开发。数据库后端（使用MongoDB和Elasticsearch）和Web接口（使用React和Sminantic UI的流星使用）已完全重写，并且基础数据模型（现在是3.0版）已大大简化。已经开发了通过Web界面归档数据的灵活程序，以改善用户体验并满足古磁和岩石磁性社区的需求。这是一项艰苦的努力，但是新的体系结构已准备好扩大业务。现代科学工作需要有效访问数据，数据处理中的透明度以及可靠的文档，以便可以轻松解决可重复性和标准化问题。过去和未来工作的一个关键方面是建立个性化工作流方案，以通过实验室测量和解释结果来理解现场元数据的所有研究的所有方面。这有助于从不同研究中整合数据，并在确定数据质量和适合特定目的的数据质量和适用性方面完全控制了数据。它也迅速发展为地球科学出版物的要求。根据该提案的工作将重点放在五个领域：（i）协助古磁实验室的开发和实施透明工作流策略以归档其数据； （ii）在魔术中添加新的搜索，可视化和API功能； （iii）与其他磁化数据库的互操作性； （iv）添加PMAGPY数据处理工具，包括使用Jupyter笔记本电脑的可重复性； （v）制作其他数据源，例如IODP，可以在魔术中访问； （vi）数据救援行动，以确保未来的研究人员不会丢失有价值的现有信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。