Updating technical components to sustain XMAPortal and ZMAPortal for the comparative biomechanics research community

X射线运动分析门户网站（XMAPortal）和动物学运动分析门户网站（ZMAPortal）为来自不同机构（包括美国大学，主要是本科院校，国际机构和小型企业）的广泛教师和学生提供了重要资源。在该奖项的支持下，门户网站将进行更新，以通过以下方式使比较生物力学领域的研究受益：（1）继续提供已经保存在门户网站中的视频数据和元数据;以及（2）更新门户网站，以接收越来越多的研究人员使用视频研究活体动物运动的生物力学的新数据。作为科学网络基础设施，XMAPortal和ZMAPortal提供视频数据管理，以提高实验室团队和协作的效率，它们还作为数据存档，以实现数据重用，验证和透明度。本科生将通过参与alpha和beta测试来了解网络基础设施。该项目将推进科学基础设施和人类STEM劳动力的发展，以支持科学创新和长期的美国经济竞争力。由于自XMA和ZMA门户网站近15年前开始开发以来，外部技术发生了变化，因此需要更新网络基础设施。拟议的更新将使门户网站能够在今后15至20年内继续维持用户付费。XMA和ZMAPortals将被重构，以利用最新的现代JavaScript Web开发框架。现代JavaScript将焦点从特定技术转移到面向用户的功能，用户体验与数据脱钩。现代JavaScript对如何维护和部署应用程序的规定较少，允许使用新的部署工具，这些工具可以随着XMAPortal和ZMAPortal的传入流量动态扩展。所有代码都将使用开源容器编排工具Kubernetes进行容器化和部署。为该项目开发的代码将是开源的，可供科学界使用。通过更新现有门户网站的技术基础，将确保这些视频数据管理平台在未来许多年的连续性。对研究界的影响将是维护已经存储在门户网站中的视频数据，同时通过合成，数据挖掘和共享高度数据丰富的视频文件，使比较生物力学领域的新研究成为可能。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The X-ray Motion Analysis Portal (XMAPortal) and the Zoological Motion Analysis Portal (ZMAPortal) provides a critical resource for a broad range of faculty and students from diverse institutions including US universities, primarily undergraduate colleges, international institutions, and small businesses. With support from this award, the Portals will be updated to benefit research in the field of comparative biomechanics through; (1) continued availability of video data and metadata already deposited in the Portals; and (2) updating the Portals to receive new data from the growing number of researchers using video to study the biomechanics of movement in living animals. As scientific cyberinfrastructure, the XMAPortal and ZMAPortal provide video data management to increase the efficiency of lab groups and collaborations, and they also serve as data archives for data re-use, validation, and transparency. Undergraduate students will learn about cyberinfrastructure by participating in alpha and beta testing. This project will advance scientific infrastructure and human STEM workforce development in support of scientific innovation and long-term US economic competitiveness.A cyberinfrastructure update is needed because of external technology changes that have occurred since the development of the XMA and ZMA Portals started nearly 15 years ago. The proposed update will make it possible to continue to sustain the Portals with user fees for the next 15-20 years. The XMA and ZMAPortals will be refactored to leverage the latest modern Javascript web development frameworks. Modern Javascript shifts focus away from specific technologies to user facing functionality, and user experience is decoupled from data. Modern Javascript is less prescriptive about how applications are maintained and deployed, allowing the use of new deployment tools that can dynamically scale with the incoming traffic to the XMAPortal and ZMAPortal. All code will be containerized and deployed with Kubernetes, an open-source container-orchestration tool. The code developed for this project will be open source and available to the scientific community. By updating the technology base of the existing Portals, the continuity of these video data management platforms will be ensured for many years to come. The impact on the research community will be to maintain the video data already stored in the portals while enabling new research in the field of comparative biomechanics through synthesis, data mining, and sharing of highly data-rich video files.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.