EarthCube Assessment of the 2012 State of Geoinformatics: A Community and Interagency Exploration of the LifeCycle, Citation, and Integration of Geoscience Data

EarthCube专注于社区驱动的开发，用于地球和环境科学数据的集成和可互操作的知识管理系统。通过利用合作，而不是像创建互联网和开源软件那样的竞争过程，EarthCube将攻击迄今为止阻碍充分访问、分析、可视化和互操作性的顽固和持久的问题，这些问题阻碍了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。该奖项资助了广泛的、包容性的社区互动和GeoData 2011的后续研讨会，该研讨会将解决资助组合和EarthCube开发中的差距，这是NSF的一项重大新计划。其中一些差距包括与数据可访问性和归因有关的未解决问题。其他涉及机构间规划，以改进大型联邦数据存储库与学术数据集和数据管理设施的互操作性和集成。受资助的研讨会和相关对话将通过未列入受邀名单的感兴趣各方的虚拟参与向公众开放。这项工作的更广泛影响包括促进社区和联邦机构之间的密切互动，这些机构目前彼此之间没有有效的互动，并围绕在地球科学数据和知识管理方面创建一个新的、可互操作的范例的共同目标建立一致。

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 broad, inclusive community interactions and a follow-on workshop to GeoData 2011 which will address gaps in the funding portfolio and development of EarthCube, a major new NSF initiative. Some of these gaps include unresolved issues related to data accessibility and attribution. Others involve interagency planning for improving interoperability and integration of large Federal data repositories with academic datasets and data management facilities. The funded workshop and associated conversations will be open and available to the public via virtual participation of interested parties not included in the list of invitees. Broader impacts of the work include fostering of close interaction between communities and federal agencies that do not presently effectively interact with one another and to build alignment around a common goal of creating a new, interoperable paradigm in data and knowledge management in the geosciences.