Collaborative Research: A Reaction Kinetics Database for Modeling Biogeochemical Systems

了解环境反应发生的速度是EarthKin的目标，EarthKin是一个专注于地球化学反应速率的年龄化学数据库。来自缅因州大学、宾夕法尼亚州立大学、哥伦比亚大学和圣弗朗西斯大学的地球科学家将把现有的反应速率汇编成一个一站式数据库，该数据库将允许研究人员访问各种项目，从从大气中去除二氧化碳并将其永久储存在地下到清理受污染的环境场所。完成后，科学家们可以通过www.earthchem.org网站免费获得EarthKin。我们不仅可以编辑现有的数据，但我们也将鼓励新的研究人员通过将他们的新成果上传到数据库中来参与进来。（开发技术和计算工具以促进地球科学信息传播的子学科）极大地增加了研究人员对地质信息的获取。许多最近的努力都集中在大型数据集的在线发布，以使数据提供给更广泛的社区。EarthKin特别有趣，因为它是第一次尝试将实验数据纳入基于网络的数据管理平台。要做到这一点，我们需要建立新的工具和数据结构，使现有的地球化学平台能够整合新类型的数据。

Understanding how quickly environmental reactions take place is the goal of EarthKin, ageochemical database focusing on the rates of geochemical reactions. EarthKinscientists from University of Maine, Penn State, Columbia, and Saint Francis Universitywill compile existing reaction rates into a one-stop database that will allow access toresearchers working on a diverse range of projects ranging from removing carbondioxide from the atmosphere and permanently storing it beneath the ground to cleaningup contaminated environmental sites. When completed EarthKin will be available toscientists free via the web at www.earthchem.org. Not only will we compile existingdata, but we will also encourage new researchers to become involved by uploading theirnew results into the database.Recent advances in geoinformatics (the subdiscipline of developing technologicaland computation tools to facilitate information dissemination in the geosciences) havedrastically increased access that researchers have to geological information. Manyrecent endeavors have focused on online publishing of large data sets in order to makedata available to the wider community. EarthKin is especially interesting in that it is oneof the first attempts to include experimental data in a web-based data managementplatform. To do this, we will need to build new tools and data structures that will allowthe existing EarthChem platform to incorporate a new type of data.