EarthCube Data Capabilities: Collaborative Proposal: Broadening Community Use and Adoption of StraboSpot

在地质学界，通过共享数据库进行合作将促进发现和新的科学突破。然而，由于数据本身的性质以及用于收集这些数据的各种复杂方法，地质数据很难输入共享数据库所必需的数字格式。StraboSpot数字数据系统旨在克服这些困难，使科学家和公民更容易获得地质科学数据。这项新工作将允许开发新的移动用户界面，使地质学家能够以高效的方式收集现场数据，并且超越了目前在纸质笔记本和地图上可能实现的方式。新的应用程序还将整合在微观层面收集的数据，包括岩石成分的信息。最后，数据和解释将通过使用StraboSpot数据存储库的搜索功能提供。这项工作的更广泛的影响包括科学家参与开发分享他们收集的数据的最佳方法，以及科学家和公众更容易获得这些数据。作为该项目的开发工作的一部分，各种地质团体将参与初步设计和评估。通过实地考察、研讨会和学生外展，这些社区的持续参与有助于确定三个目标，这些目标将改善数据系统，并将使StraboSpot得到更广泛的采用和使用。目标是：1)开发新的移动用户界面——由正在进行和未来与社区的对话决定——这将允许从业者以引人注目、高效的方式收集现场数据，并超越目前在纸质笔记本或纸质地图上可能实现的方式；2)将岩石学数据整合到数据库的显微照片/薄片组件中，此外还创建一个桌面用户界面，与分析仪器（如扫描电子显微镜）收集的数据无缝对接；3)设计和实现接口和传输协议，以有效地从StraboSpot数据存储库中提取信息。如果成功，StraboSpot将影响地质科学的所有从业者，激励新的和创新的研究。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Within the geological community, collaboration through a shared database would facilitate discovery and new scientific breakthroughs. However, geological data has proven difficult to enter into digital formats, necessary for a shared database, because of the nature of the data itself and the varied and complex methods used to collect these data. The StraboSpot digital data system was designed to overcome these difficulties and allow data from the geological sciences to become more easily accessible to both scientists and citizens. The new work will allow for the development of new mobile user interfaces, allowing geologists to collect field data in ways that are efficient and go beyond what is currently possible in a paper notebook and map. The new application will also integrate data collected at the microscopic level, including information about rock composition. Finally, the data and interpretations will be made available through search capabilities that will use the StraboSpot data repository. The broader impacts of this work include the engagement of scientists to best develop ways to share the data they collect, and the easier access to this data for scientists and the public.As part of the development efforts in this project, various geologic communities will be involved in initial design and evaluation. Continued engagement of these communities through field trips, workshops, and student outreach help to identify three objectives that will improve the data system and will lead to wider adoption and use of StraboSpot. The objectives are to: 1) Develop new mobile user interfaces - determined by ongoing and future conversations with the communities - that will allow practitioners to collect field data in ways that are compelling, efficient, and go beyond what is currently possible in a paper notebook or on a paper map; 2) Incorporate petrological data into the micrograph/thin section component of the database, in addition to creating a desktop user interface that works seamlessly with data collected with analytical instruments (such as scanning electron microscopes); and 3) Design and implement interfaces and transfer protocols to efficiently extract information from the StraboSpot data repository. If successful, StraboSpot will impact all practitioners in the geological sciences, motivating new and innovative research.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.