Workshops for a Community Roadmap for Governance of Geoscience Cyberinfrastructure (EarthCube)

EarthCube的重点是以社区为导向开发一个综合的、可互操作的地球和环境科学数据知识管理系统。通过利用一种合作的、而不是像创建互联网和开放源码软件那样的竞争过程，EarthCube将解决顽固而持久的问题，这些问题迄今阻碍了对驻留在分布式和多样化数据系统中的不同地球科学数据和数据类型的巨大仓库的充分访问和分析、可视化和互操作性。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，为开发EarthCube的关键能力(治理)创建路线图，EarthCube是NSF的一项重大新倡议。社区/利益攸关方接受和采用标准；如有可能，采用通用工具和方法；最佳做法；网络基础设施协议；以及工作流程，对于建立一个可互操作的、面向服务的架构的任何整体办法都是必不可少的，该架构服务于希望开展数据科学的地球科学研究界的需要。由资金资助的一系列在线/虚拟讲习班将吸引地球科学界各行各业的人员参加，这些讲习班被认为是创新和令人振奋的，特别是拟议应用社交网络推广实用程序来吸引早期职业科学家和学生。该项目的主要成果将是如何在建立广泛商定的结构方面取得进展的路线图，以监督相关工作组和概念赠款中EarthCube活动的发展。这项工作的更广泛影响包括集中在共同商定的进程上，以便就是否应该制定标准或具体议定书以及如果应该制定标准或具体议定书作出决定。它们还包括促进通常彼此不互动的社区(地球科学以及网络基础设施和计算机科学领域的社区)之间的密切互动，并将它们集中于在地球科学的数据和知识管理方面建立新的范式这一共同目标。

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 (governance) in the development of EarthCube, a major new NSF initiative. Community/stakeholder buy-in and adoption of standards; common tools and aproaches, if possible; best practices; cyberinfrastructure protocols; and workflows are essential to any holistic approach to creating an interoperable and service-oriented architecture that serves the needs of the geoscience research community wishing to do data-enabled science. The funded series of online/virtual workshops that will engage a brod spectrum of the geoscience community were considered innovative and exciting, especially the proposed application of social networking outreach utilities to engage early career scientists and students. A prime deliverable of the project will be a road map of how to move forward in terms of setting up broadly agreed upon structures to oversee the development of EarthCube activities in the associated working groups and concept grants. Broader impacts of the work include converging on mutually agreed upon processes to allow decision making with regard to whether or not standards or specific protocols should be established, and if so what they should be. They also include the fostering of close interaction between communities that do not commonly interact with one another (the geosciences and those in cyberinfrastructure and computer science) and focusing them on the common goal of creating a new paradigm in data and knowledge management in the geosciences.