EarthCube Community Workshop: Designing A Roadmap for Workflows in Geosciences

EarthCube的重点是由社区驱动开发一个综合和可互操作的地理和环境科学数据知识管理系统。通过利用一个合作的，而不是竞争的过程，就像创建互联网和开源软件一样，EarthCube将解决迄今为止一直阻碍充分访问和分析，可视化的持续存在的问题，以及存在于分布式和多样化数据系统中的大量不同地球科学数据和数据类型的仓库的互操作性。该奖项资助了一系列广泛的，包容性的社区互动，以收集足够的信息和要求，为EarthCube（NSF的一项重大新举措）的开发中的关键能力（工作流程）创建路线图。EarthCube中的工作流和一般的网络基础设施涵盖了广泛的主题，包括分布式执行管理，将多个模型耦合到复合应用程序中，将广泛的数据源与处理集成，以及从原始数据创建精细的数据产品。资助工作的一个主要好处是评估和建立社区对这种能力的最佳前进方式的共识（即，工作流）是记录建模中使用的数据的来源并再现模型和数据使能的科学结果的能力。受资助的研讨会和信息收集活动将向所有感兴趣的各方开放，并由网络基础设施开发人员，计算机科学家和地球科学家组成的多元化专家团队领导。这项工作的更广泛影响包括在可能适用于整个科学的方法、协议和标准上达成一致。 它们还包括促进通常彼此不互动的社区之间的密切互动，并将其重点放在创建地球科学数据和知识管理新模式的共同目标上。

EarthCube is focused on community-driven development of an integrated and interoperable knowledge management system for data in the geo- and environmental sciences. By utilizing a cooperative, as opposed to competitive, process like that which created the Internet and Open Source software, EarthCube will attack the recalcitrant and persistent problems that so far have prevented adequate access to and the analysis, visualization, and interoperability of the vast storehouses of disparate geoscience data and data types residing in distributed and diverse data systems. This awards funds a series of broad, inclusive community interactions to gather adequate information and requirements to create a roadmap for a critical capability (workflow) in the development of EarthCube, a major new NSF initiative. Workflow in the context of EarthCube, and cyberinfrastructure in general, encompasses a broad range of topics including distributed execution management, the coupling of multiple models into composite applications, the integration of a wide range of data sources with processing, and the creation of refined data products from raw data. A key benefit of the funded work in terms of evaluating and creating community consensus on the best way forward for this capability (i.e., workflow) is the ability to document the provenance of data used in modeling and reproduce model and data-enabled scientific results. The funded workshop and information collecting activity will be open to all interested parties and is being led by a diverse and expert team of cyberinfrastructure developers, computer scientists, and geoscientists. Broader impacts of the work include converging on approaches, protocols, and standards that may be applicable across the sciences. They also include the fostering of close interaction between communities that do not commonly interact with one another and focusing them on the common goal of creating a new paradigm in data and knowledge management in the geosciences.