Succession Planning Workshops for the Generic Mapping Tools computer code

通用映射工具计算机代码继任计划研讨会

• 批准号: 1841660
• 负责人: Garrett Apuzen-Ito
• 金额: $ 4.42万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 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: 2018-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1841660&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Succession; Planning; Workshops; Generic; Mapping

The data analysis and visualization package, Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), is a workhorse piece of open source computer software that is extremely flexible and has the power to produce publication-quality graphic presentations of data, maps, and maps with data overlays. Since its initial inception, GMT has been continually developed and updated to remain relevant to both advances in software, software engineering, and the needs of scientists across the spectrum of the solid earth sciences. It has become the de facto standard for a community of over 25,000 registered users. GMT permeates work published in high profile journals such as Nature and Science, as well as many others that report research advances in geophysics and geology, including seismology, geodesy, and geodynamics. Recent developments involving GMT have included extending it to be able to analyze and display more diverse types of data and improving the code for plotting vectors and their uncertainties, earthquake focal mechanisms, and hemispherical projections. Efforts have also been successful in strengthening GMT's capabilities in terms of high performance computing, time-series analysis, ternary diagrams, and geologic symbols. Of importance has been the development of an Applied Programming Interface and scripts that allow GMT modules to be called directly from the Python open source programming language and MatLab, a widely used mathematical analysis software package. With the pending retirement of the primary developer and GMT host, a plan for its transition to a new and permanent location, where GMT can remain accessible and continue to be updated and extended as needed by the scientific community and public, is needed. These two working summits provide the planning necessary to devise such a transition plan and identify an appropriate new host. Broader impacts of the work include international collaboration with Portuguese and German scientists who are involved as key GMT developers and building infrastructure for science in terms of providing critical tools for geoscientists to analyze, visualize, and display their data and research results.The Generic Mapping Tools computer code is an integral part of many scientific workflows in the earth and ocean sciences. It is an extremely flexible data analytical and visualization tool that has, over the last 30 years, become an essential part of geoscience infrastructure. These two working summits are to position the code for its upcoming transition to a new host and the identification of that host. One workshop will be held in Portugal where one of the members of the core GMT development teams resides. This is to enable other European scientists who are part of the development team to join and provide input and suggestions for how to continue to improve GMT and make it financially sustainable. This summit/workshop will be devoted, in part, also to the continued hardening of the code and improving code documentation and meta-documentation, the latter of which will describe the code development process, code testing, building user documentation, maintaining the wiki and error reporting database, etc. A second summit will be held in the US and will involve participation from the GMT steering committee. This working summit will help develop a robust and comprehensive plan for GMT transition.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.

数据分析和可视化软件包通用制图工具（GMT）是一个开源计算机软件的主力，它非常灵活，能够制作出版质量的数据、地图和带有数据叠加的地图图形。 自成立以来，GMT一直在不断发展和更新，以保持与软件，软件工程的进步以及固体地球科学领域科学家的需求相关。 它已成为一个拥有25，000多名注册用户的社区的事实标准。 GMT渗透在高知名度期刊上发表的工作，如自然和科学，以及许多其他报告地球物理学和地质学研究进展的期刊，包括地震学，大地测量学和地球动力学。最近涉及GMT的发展包括将其扩展到能够分析和显示更多类型的数据，并改进用于绘制矢量及其不确定性、地震震源机制和半球投影的代码。 在加强GMT在高性能计算、时间序列分析、三元图和地质符号方面的能力方面，也取得了成功。重要的是开发了一个应用编程接口和脚本，允许直接从Python开源编程语言和MatLab（一种广泛使用的数学分析软件包）调用GMT模块。 由于主要开发人员和GMT主机即将退休，需要制定一项计划，将其过渡到一个新的永久性地点，在那里GMT可以继续访问，并根据科学界和公众的需要继续更新和扩展。这两次工作首脑会议为制定这样一个过渡计划和确定一个适当的新东道国提供了必要的规划。 这项工作的更广泛的影响包括与葡萄牙和德国科学家的国际合作，他们作为关键的GMT开发者参与其中，并为科学提供基础设施，为地球科学家提供分析，可视化和显示其数据和研究结果的关键工具。通用制图工具计算机代码是地球和海洋科学许多科学工作流程的组成部分。 它是一种非常灵活的数据分析和可视化工具，在过去的30年里，它已成为地球科学基础设施的重要组成部分。 这两个工作首脑会议将定位其即将过渡到一个新的主机和该主机的识别代码。其中一个讲习班将在葡萄牙举行，GMT核心开发团队的一名成员就住在那里。这是为了使开发团队中的其他欧洲科学家能够加入并为如何继续改进GMT并使其在财务上可持续提供投入和建议。 本次峰会/研讨会将部分致力于继续加强代码和改进代码文档和元文档，后者将描述代码开发过程，代码测试，构建用户文档，维护wiki和错误报告数据库等。第二次峰会将在美国举行，并将邀请GMT指导委员会参加。 本次工作峰会将有助于为GMT过渡制定一个强大而全面的计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。