INTEROP: Creation of an International Virtual Data Center for the Biodiversity, Ecological and Environmental Sciences

新墨西哥州的大学已被授予资金，以开发新的社区能力和新技术，以支持设计，实施和部署一个虚拟数据中心的生物多样性，生态和环境。目前，这些数据分散在互联网上可访问和不可访问的数据库和集合中。该项目开发的工具将减少收集和整合这些信息的长期成本，使科学家和决策者更容易获得这些信息。该数据中心将通过互联网广泛访问，并将建立在现有和新数据中心之间互操作性的开放标准和协议基础上。为期一周的技术工作组会议每半年举行一次，将邀请来自数据中心的信息科学家、信息系统开发人员和众多学生参加，他们将为开发虚拟数据中心原型做出贡献，并采用和调整来自数字图书馆社区和各种科学社区的基本系统互操作性和数据交换标准。社区参与工作组的年度会议加上年度外部咨询委员会会议将解决数据保存和数据共享的社会文化障碍，以及数据中心的可持续性。本科生将每年参加暑期网络基础设施培训，以及在学年期间由工作组确定的项目。将在相关专业学会、新兴环境观测站和研究网络的年度会议上开展外联活动。项目成果将纳入由项目合作伙伴支持的年度培训课程，并广泛采用作为该项目一部分开发的互操作性解决方案。除了促进对工作组活动和暑期培训的多样化参与外，还将通过项目网站免费公开地提供成果。

The University of New Mexico has been awarded funding to develop new community capacity and new technologies to support the design, implementation, and deployment of a Virtual Data Center for biodiversity, ecology and the environment. Currently such data is scattered across internet accessible and inaccessible databases and collections. The tools developed in this project will reduce long term costs for gathering and integrating this information, making it more readily available to scientists and policy makers alike. The data center will be broadly accessible via the internet and is to be founded on open standards and protocols for interoperability among existing and new data centers. Semi-annual week-long Technical Working Group meetings will engage information scientists from data centers representing diverse disciplines, information systems developers, and numerous students who will contribute to developing Virtual Data Center prototypes and adopting and adapting basic system interoperability and data exchange standards from the digital library community and various scientific communities. An annual meeting of a Community Engagement Working Group plus an annual External Advisory Committee meeting will address socio-cultural barriers to data preservation and data sharing, as well as data center sustainability. Undergraduate students will participate annually in a summer cyberinfrastructure traineeship as well as in projects during the academic year that are identified by the Working Groups. Outreach will be provided at annual meetings of relevant professional societies, emerging environmental observatories, and research networks. Project results will be incorporated in annual training sessions supported by project partners and through the broad adoption of the interoperability solutions developed as part of this project. In addition to promoting diverse participation in Working Group activities and summer traineeships, results will be freely and openly accessible via the project web site.