Service Based Integration Platform for EarthCube (SBIP-E)

EAGER奖的重点是探索实施一种新模式的可行性，为NSF的一项名为EarthCube的新倡议开发一个综合性和可互操作的地球科学数据和知识管理系统。该项目由一个地球科学数据管理专家小组领导，重点是开发一种松散耦合的网络服务方法，使地球科学数据储存库能够更有效地使其数据库可供公众查阅。一个项目目标是测试RESTful（代表性状态转移）方法的实用性。它的目标将更多地是将来自广泛分布的数据库的不同地球科学数据类型连接在一起，以便实现新类型的数据支持科学。该项目涉及来自大多数主要NSF资助的地球科学数据设施以及来自各种主要欧洲地球科学数据库的数据管理组。这种互动不仅允许对已开发的Web服务进行更广泛的测试，而且还将提供一个急需的论坛来交流想法和方法，从而获得更好的投资回报。该项目的一个关键方面是开发URL构建器，以帮助用户制定Web服务请求。这项工作的更广泛影响包括为科学和工程开发新的基础设施，以及该项目的成果将适用于地球科学以外的领域的可能性。另一个更广泛的影响是一个国际组成部分，使意大利和其他欧洲科学家和数据网络作为合作者参与活动。

This EAGER award focuses on exploring the feasibility of the implementation of a new paradigm in the development of an integrative and interoperable data and knowledge management system for the geosciences for a new NSF initiative called EarthCube. Led by a team of experts in geoscience data management, this project focuses on developing a loosely coupled web service approach to allow geoscience data repositories to more effectively make their data holdings discoverable and available to the public. One project goal will be to test the utility of the RESTful (representative state transfer) approach. Its target will be more to link together of disparate geoscience data types from widely distributed data repositories so new types of data-enabled science can be realized. The project engages data management groups from most of the major NSF-funded geoscience data facilities as well as those from a variety of major European geoscience data holdings. This interaction will not only allow broader testing of developed web services, but will also provide a much needed forum to exchange ideas and approaches allowing a better return on investment. One key aspect of this project is the development of URL builders to help users formulate web service requests. Broader impacts of the work include the development of new infrastructure for science and engineering and the likelihood that what results from this project will be applicable to fields outside of the geosciences. An additional broader impact is an international component that engages Italian and other European scientists and data networks as collaborators in the activity.