Collaborative Research: EarthCube Capabilities: Repurposing FAIR-Compliant Earth Science Data Repositories

互联网上存在明显的数据稀疏性，其特征是易于查找、访问、互操作和可重用（FAIR）。该项目旨在利用为磁学信息联盟（MagIC）开发的可重用组件，这些组件遵循上述FAIR数据原则，并在综合地球科学与技术应用框架（FIESTA）中重新利用。利用这项新的FIESTA技术，我们将建立两个新的在线数据库：(1)KARAR：托管使用K/Ar和40Ar/39Ar技术收集的分析数据和地质年龄信息，用于岩石和矿物的年龄测定；(2) GCPDR：存储在沉积物/岩石岩心中紧密间隔收集的多传感器数据，提供沉积物和岩石的物理和磁性信息。从KARAR提取的信息满足了几乎所有地球科学家的关键需求，使他们能够从各种不同的方法和来源发现和评估最佳和最新的地质年代学信息的质量。GCPDR中的信息为研究人员提供了另一个领域，可以访问国家和国际岩心库中收集的数万个沉积物和岩石岩心的基本物理信息（例如密度，彩色光谱，地震速度），这为科学家提供了关于海洋化学，地质灾害，环境临界点，气候变化，物种灭绝，地球磁场行为，全球元素循环等无与伦比的“时间戳”记录。容器化的FIESTA方法可以被广泛的学科所采用，并且通过在EarthRef.org网络基础设施上托管FIESTA，这将消除为这些科学家开发和管理长期FAIR数据存储库的一系列重大障碍。两个新的FIESTA数据存储库还将通过以标准化的易于使用的格式（包括在EarthCube中开发的标准）公开数据，并在GitHub和EarthRef.org的JupyterHub上提供数据，从而促进数据挖掘工具和网络基础设施使用方面的改进教育的发展。最后，数据集的标准化将增强跨学科地球科学研究的能力，因为它降低了连接不同领域数据和寻找新应用的障碍，以帮助解决持续具有挑战性的科学集成问题。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。

There is a noticeable sparsity of data on the internet that can characterized as being easily findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). This project seeks to leverage reusable components developed for the Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC) that follow the above FAIR data principles and that are repurposed in the Framework for Integrated Earth Science and Technology Applications (FIESTA). Using this new FIESTA technology, we will build two new online data repositories: (1) KARAR: hosting analytical data and geological age information collected using the K/Ar and 40Ar/39Ar techniques for the age dating of rocks and minerals; and (2) GCPDR: hosting multi-sensor data collected at close intervals in sediment/rock cores that provide information on the physical and magnetic properties of sediments and rocks. Information to be drawn from the KARAR serves a critical need for almost every geoscientist enabling them to discover and assess the quality of the best and most current geochronological information from a variety of different methods and sources. Information in the GCPDR provides yet another domain of researchers with access to basic physical information (e.g. density, color spectra, seismic velocity) collected in tens of thousands sediment and rock cores held in national and international core repositories, which provides scientists with inimitable “time-stamped” records on ocean chemistry, geohazards, environmental tipping points, climate change, extinctions, Earth’s magnetic field behavior, global elemental cycles, and more.The containerized FIESTA approach is designed to be readily adopted by a broad range of disciplines and, by hosting FIESTA at the EarthRef.org cyberinfrastructure, this will remove a significant set of hurdles in developing and managing a long-term FAIR data repository for these scientists. The two new FIESTA data repositories will also lead to the development of improved education in data mining tools and the use of cyberinfrastructure by exposing data in standardized easy-to-use formats, including standards developed in EarthCube, and making data available on GitHub and EarthRef.org’s JupyterHub. Finally, the standardization of datasets will enhance capabilities for interdisciplinary geoscience research as it lowers the hurdles to linking data across different fields and finding new applications to help solve persistently challenging scientific integration problems.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.