DataNet Full Proposal: The Data Conservancy (A Digital Research and Curation Virtual Organization)

摘要约翰霍普金斯大学（JHU）的Sayeed Choudhury将创建数据保护中心（DC），该中心将研究、设计、实施、部署和维护跨学科发现的数据管理基础设施，重点是观测数据。数据保护项目由萨伊德·乔杜里（Sayeed Choudhury）领导，他是JHU大学图书馆副院长，在领导研究型图书馆社区向新方向发展方面有着良好的记录。数据保护协会正在创建一种新的模式，在这种模式下，图书馆将数字数据视为一种特殊的集合，必须像其他集合一样加以维护和服务。参与组织包括康奈尔大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）、伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校（UIUC）、国家大气研究中心（NCAR）、大学大气研究公司（UCAR）、海洋生物实验室（生命百科全书）、国家冰雪数据中心（NSIDC）、太空望远镜科学研究所、Fedora Commons、Portico、昆士兰大学和Tessella支持服务。除了定义研究型图书馆在管理和服务科学数字数据特殊收藏方面的新角色外，数据保护协会的预期贡献还包括：*定义新的教育课程和数据管理方面的其他机会；*以用户为中心的研究，将帮助社区和NSF更好地了解科学家现在如何使用、共享和保存数据，以及是什么因素激励他们或阻止他们保存和共享数据。通过收集、保存和语义整合数据（这些数据现在很难组装和分析），该项目还有望对科学家回答对国家和世界同样重要的重大挑战问题的能力产生变革性影响，例如与温室气体产生有关的三个问题：*全球碳循环中主要储存库和通量的当前地理和时间分布是什么？*决定碳循环动态的控制和反馈机制（包括人为的和非人为的）是什么？*未来碳-气候-人类系统的动态是怎样的？人类社会管理这一系统存在哪些干预点和机会之窗？数据保护协会的数据涵盖人类学、应用数学、天文学、大气科学、化学、地球科学、作物和土壤科学、鸟类学、心理学、物理学、理论和应用力学。国际伙伴关系扩大了这一初步收集。这个系列的进化发展将以用户为中心的设计过程为指导。

AbstractThe Data Conservancy, A Digital Research and Curation Virtual ObservatoryPI: Sayeed Choudhury of Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins University (JHU) will create The Data Conservancy (DC), which will research, design, implement, deploy and sustain data curation infrastructure for cross-disciplinary discovery, with an emphasis on observational data. The Data Conservancy project is led by Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for University Libraries at JHU, which has a strong track record for leading the research library community in new directions. The Data Conservancy is creating a new model in which libraries regard digital data as a special collection that must be maintained and served like their other collections. Participating organizations include Cornell University, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Marine Biological Laboratory (Encyclopedia of Life), the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Space Telescope Science Institute, Fedora Commons, Portico, University of Queensland, and Tessella Support Services. Besides defining a new role for research libraries in curating and serving special collections of scientific digital data, expected contributions of the Data Conservancy include* Defining of new educational curricula an other opportunities in data curation; * User centered studies that will help the community and NSF better understand how scientists use, share, and preserve data now and what factors motivate them to or inhibit them from preserving and sharing data.Through collection, preservation and semantic integration of data that are now very difficult to assemble and analyze together, the project is also expected to have transformative impact on the ability of scientists to answer grand challenge questions that are as important to the nation and the world, such as three that relate to the production of greenhouse gases: * What are the current geographical and temporal distributions of the major pools and fluxes in the global carbon cycle? * What are the control and feedback mechanisms - both anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic - that determine the dynamics of the carbon cycle? * And what are the dynamics of the carbon-climate-human system into the future, and what points of intervention and windows of opportunity exist for human societies to manage this system?The Data Conservancy begins with data spanning anthropology, applied mathematics, astronomy, atmospheric sciences, chemistry, earth sciences, crop and soil sciences, ornithology, psychology, physics, theoretical and applied mechanics. International partnerships augment this initial collection. Evolutionary development of this collection will be guided by the user centered design process.