Collaborative workshop proposal: Drawing the roadmap for the semantic/ontology based infrastructure for Geosciences

EarthCube的重点是由社区驱动开发一个综合的、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社区互动，以收集足够的信息和要求，为EarthCube开发中的关键网络基础设施能力（语义和本体）创建路线图。 在网络基础设施的背景下，语义和本体是什么允许异构和分布式数据系统变得可互操作。它们使科学家能够注册，发现，访问和整合数据，而不管其结构的异质性。 这项工作召开公开的在线/虚拟会议，并寻求广泛的社区投入，以制定一个进程，使地球科学和网络基础设施社区在数据语义和本体领域的前进道路上达成一致，最终产品是能力实施路线图。在这个过程中还涉及到识别适当的社区商定的用例。这项工作的更广泛影响包括制定可能适用于整个科学的方法、协议和标准，以及促进通常不相互作用的社区之间的密切互动，在很大程度上使它们朝着创建地球科学数据和知识管理新范式的共同目标前进。

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 award funds a series of broad community interactions to gather adequate information and requirements to create a roadmap for a critical cyberinfrastructure capability (semantics and ontologies) in the development of EarthCube. In the context of cyberinfrastructure, semantics and ontologies are what allows heterogeneous and distributed data systems to become interoperable. They enable scientists to register, discover, access, and integrate data irrespective of its structural heterogeneity. This work convenes public, online/virtual meetings and seeks broad community input in the development of a process to have the geoscience and cyberinfrastructure communities converge on a way forward in the realm of semantics and ontologies for data, with the end product being a capability implementation roadmap. Also involved in the process is the identification of appropriate community agreed upon use cases. Broader impacts of the work include development of approaches, protocols, and standards that may be applicable across the sciences and the fostering of close interaction between communities that do not commonly interact, to a great extent, with one another moving them toward a common goal of the creation of a new paradigm in data and knowledge management in the geosciences.