Geoinformatics Facilities Support: Integrated Data Collections for the Earth & Ocean Sciences: The Marine Geoscience Data System and the Geoinformatics for Geochemistry Progr

这项合作协议创建了一个社区驱动的设施，整合了哥伦比亚大学拉蒙特·多尔蒂地球天文台固体地球科学中的一些基本网络基础设施活动。它包括数据储存库；作者归属模式；数据管理、发现和可视化工具；网络门户和服务；以及开发和实施样本唯一标识登记系统以及数据库互操作性和元数据标准。该项目还包括创建地球科学教育和推广单元及讲习班。该设施的目标是满足地球科学界的数据管理和发现需求，并向公众提供直接获取国家科学基金会资助的数据集和相关数据产品的机会。为了实现这些目标，收集的活动由一个外部咨询结构监督，该结构由地球信息学、地球物理学、火成岩岩石学、地球化学、沉积学、热液喷口流体和极地地球科学界的用户和领域科学家组成，他们与国家科学基金会合作，最好地服务于社区需求并监测项目绩效。由此产生的设施及其活动在为固体地球科学的科学和教育建设基础设施方面产生了广泛而深远的影响。由此产生的基础设施和统一的数据提交程序和标准将极大地推动地理信息学领域的发展，并为发现数据和合并不同的数据集提供必要的工具，以便通过提供一种有效地收集、查看和模拟多个数据集的手段来解决更复杂的科学问题。它还为学生提供了一个重要的教育工具，允许他们以创造性的方式探索大量数据。

This Cooperative Agreement creates a community-driven facility that consolidates a number of essential cyberinfrastructure activities in the solid-earth geosciences at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. It includes data repositories; author attribution schema; data management, discovery, and visualization tools; web portals and services; and the development and implementation of a sample unique-identifier registration system and database interoperability and metadata standards. The project also includes the creation of geoscience education and outreach modules and workshops. Goals of the facility are to serve the data management and discovery needs of the geoscience community and to provide direct public accessibility to NSF-funded data sets and associated data products. To achieve these goals, the collected activities are overseen by an external advisory structure of users and domain scientists in the geoinformatics, geophysics, igneous petrology, geochemistry, sedimentology, hydrothermal vent fluid, and polar geoscience communities and who work in concert with NSF to best serve community needs and monitor project performance. The broader impacts of the resulting facility and its activities are broad and far-reaching in terms of building infrastructure for science and education in the solid-earth geosciences. The resulting infrastructure and unified data submission procedures and standards will significantly advance the field of geoinformatics and provide essential tools for discovering data and combining disparate datasets such that more complex scientific problems can be tackled by providing a means to efficiently collect and view and model multiple datasets. It also provides an important educational tool for students by allowing them to explore large amounts of data in creative ways.