Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics: Event and Process Tagging for Information Integration for the International Gulf of Main Watershed

EIA-0131912 Beard-Tisdale，Mary-Kate缅因大学BDEI：缅因州国际海湾流域项目摘要信息集成的事件和过程标记该孵化提案解决了在复杂的机构环境中集成大型，多样化和非连续性科学数据的问题。我们的目标是将这些自治的集合转换成一个可共享的存储库，支持通过基于事件和过程的新元数据结构来合成数据。机构设置是在缅因州海湾流域内运作的80多个机构、非政府组织以及学术和研究机构的数据和数据收集活动。元数据的开发将由图书馆和空间信息科学家与领域科学家共同协调。这一孵化工作的一个基本任务是发展对环境过程和事件的共同理解，并使之成为一个可共享的本体论。图书馆在组织知识获取创造性作品方面发挥着至关重要的作用。科学数据往往超出了这一传统的范围，因此缺乏促进共享访问的编目和索引的好处。我们提出了一种新的元数据结构，利用环境研究中的共同分析单位：事件和过程。将科学数据集与事件和过程标签以及其他元数据元素相关联，可以大大提高整合和综合各种科学收藏的能力。本提案的元数据倡议将为通过数据收集、内容专家和信息管理专家的合作来具体说明事件和进程奠定基础。

EIA-0131912Beard-Tisdale, Mary-KateUniversity of MaineBDEI: Event and process tagging for information integration for the International Gulf of Maine WatershedProject SummaryThis incubation proposal addresses the issue of integrating large, diverse, and autonomouscollections of scientific data within a complex institutional setting. The goal is to convert theseautonomous collections into a shareable repository that supports synthesis of data through newmetadata structures based on events and processes. The institutional setting is the data and data-gathering activities of over 80 agencies, NGOS, and academic and research institutions operatingwithin the Gulf of Maine watershed. The metadata development will be coordinated by library andspatial information scientists working jointly with domain scientists. An essential task of thisincubation effort will be the development of a shared understanding of environmental processes andevents that becomes a shareable ontology.Libraries play a vital role in organizing intellectual access to creative works. Scientific data hastended to be outside this traditional purview and has thus lacked the benefits of cataloging andindexing that promote shared access. We are proposing a new metadata structure that exploitscommon units of analysis in environmental studies: events and processes. Associating scientific datasets with event and process tags, in addition to other metadata elements, can substantially improvethe ability to integrate and synthesize diverse scientific collections. The metadata initiative of thisproposal will lay the foundation for specifying events and processes through the collaboration ofdata collections content specialists and information management specialists.