Toward Cyber-Infrastructure 2025: Addressing Critical Milestones for EarthCube

这个EAGER奖促进了一个新的范例，在开发一个综合的和可互操作的数据和知识管理系统的地球科学的一个新的NSF倡议称为地球立方体。在来自学术界和私营部门的一个专家小组的领导下，资助的工作重点是开发EarthCube关键的网络基础设施中介能力，除其他外，这使得能够跨越学科和技术界限分享非常多样化的数据。 它还允许数据存储库通过多种标准和服务轻松地向潜在用户公开数据。所采用的方法采用了一种包容性的、社区驱动的协作方法来解决这一问题，并强调使用社区商定的标准数据集和应用程序，如水的可持续性、地质灾害、生物多样性丧失和气候变化，测试和评价不同的经纪技术。这项工作对我们在地球和环境科学领域开展定量数据研究的能力产生了重大而积极的影响。 该项目包括对现有技术进行技术评估，制定一个经纪路线图，在未来几年内使想法和技术成熟，并将吸引广泛而多样化的地球科学家，网络基础设施开发人员和计算机科学家社区。这项工作的更广泛影响包括实现EarthCube所需的关键能力的成熟，EarthCube是NSF在地球科学知识和数据管理方面的一项新举措，来自地球科学，网络基础设施和计算机科学社区的广泛个人的参与，将代表性不足的团体成员纳入领导团队，以及与法国，德国，和加拿大

This EAGER award promotes 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 from academia and the private section, the funded work is focused on developing the key EarthCube cyberinfrastructure capability of brokering, which among other things enables sharing of very diverse data across disciplinary and technological boundaries. It also allows data repositories to easily expose and make discoverable their data to potential users via multiple standards and services. The approach employed utilizes an inclusive, community-driven, collaborative approach to the problem and emphasizes the testing and evaluation of different brokering technologies using community-agreed upon standard datasets and applications, such as water sustainability, geohazards, biodiversity loss, and climate change. The work substantially and positively impacts our ability to carry out quantitative data-enabled research in the geo- and environmental sciences. The project includes technical assessments of existing technologies, the development of a brokering roadmap that will mature ideas and technology over the next few years, and will engage a broad and diverse community of geoscientists, cyberinfrastructure developers, and computer scientists. Broader impacts of the work include maturation of a key capability that is required for the realization of EarthCube, a new NSF initiative in geoscience knowledge and data management, the engagement of a broad spectrum of individuals from the geoscience, cyberinfrastructure, and computer science communities, the inclusion of members of under-represented groups in the leadership team, and international collaboration with partners in France, Germany, and Canada.