Furthering EarthCube: A Roadmap Coordination Workshop

EarthCube是地球科学理事会和国家科学基金会网络基础设施办公室的合资企业。这是一个社区驱动的努力，旨在为地球科学设计和实施一个有效的数据和知识管理系统，该系统将集成不同的数据集和网络服务，并为地球科学社区的所有成员提供服务。这个为期两天的研讨会在科罗拉多大学举行，汇集了研究人员和其他感兴趣的各方，他们的任务是开发网络基础设施组件，这些组件可能包含在EarthCube的最终架构和设计中。研讨会的参与者将负责综合6月EarthCube会议上的社区意见，并对一系列拟议的里程碑和事件进行排序，这些里程碑和事件包括在过去六个月中生成的社区创建的关键网络基础设施能力路线图中。研讨会的首要目标是为EarthCube提出一个可行的网络基础设施框架，并为其实施制定一个临时时间表。参与者将包括已经在研究潜在的EarthCube架构组件的关键人物，以及那些来自新成立的特殊兴趣小组的人，例如那些对EarthCube链接和合并生物数据集感兴趣的人；那些寻求满足地球科学家需求的人，他们使用独特的基于样本的数据，而不是来自传感器阵列的大型同构数据集；还有那些试图开发软件以允许直接从实验室仪器中摄取数据的人。研讨会的广泛影响在于为科学和工程建设基础设施。

EarthCube is a joint venture between the Directorate of Geosciences and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. It is a community-driven effort to design and implement an effective data and knowledge management system for the geosciences that will integrates disparate data sets and web services and serves all members of the geoscience community. This 2-day workshop at the University of Colorado brings together investigators and other interested parties who have been tasked with developing cyberinfrastructure components that are potential candidates for inclusion in the final architecture and design of EarthCube. Participants at the workshop will be tasked to synthesize community input from the June EarthCube meeting and sequence the series of proposed milestones and events included in community-created road maps of key cyberinfrastructure capabilities that were generated over the course of the last six months. The overarching goals of the workshop will be to propose a workable cyberinfrastructure framework for EarthCube and work out a provisional timeline for its implementation. Participants will consist of key individuals already working on potential EarthCube architecture components, as well as those from newly formed special interest groups such as those interesting in having EarthCube link to and incorporate biological datasets; those seeking to serve the needs of geoscientists who work with unique sample-based data, as opposed to large homogeneous datasets coming from sensor arrays; and those trying to develop software to allow direct ingestion of data from laboratory instruments. Broader impacts of the workshop lie in the area of building infrastructure for science and engineering.