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

EarthCube专注于社区驱动的开发，为地球和环境科学领域的数据开发一个集成的、可互操作的知识管理系统。通过利用合作，而不是竞争，就像创建互联网和开源软件的过程一样，EarthCube将攻击顽固和持久的问题，这些问题迄今为止阻碍了对分布在不同数据系统中的不同地球科学数据和数据类型的大量存储的充分访问和分析，可视化和互操作性。该合同资助了一系列广泛的社区互动，以收集足够的信息和需求，为EarthCube开发中的关键网络基础设施能力（语义和本体论）创建路线图。在网络基础设施的上下文中，语义和本体是允许异构和分布式数据系统变得可互操作的东西。它们使科学家能够注册、发现、访问和整合数据，而不考虑其结构异质性。这项工作召集公众、在线/虚拟会议，并在开发过程中寻求广泛的社区意见，以使地球科学和网络基础设施社区在数据语义和本体论领域的前进道路上汇聚一堂，最终产品是能力实现路线图。在这个过程中还涉及到在用例上达成一致的适当社区的标识。这项工作的更广泛的影响包括开发可能适用于所有科学的方法、协议和标准，并促进在很大程度上不经常相互作用的社区之间的密切互动，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.