EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences

该项目建立并运行地球立方体研究协调网络（RCN）协作和古地球科学网络基础设施（C4 P），以通过研究地质记录，促进网络基础设施（CI）在揭示地球生命系统的大规模长期演化中的作用。长期地球生命系统是一个雄心勃勃的计划，告知公众对人类管理地球的辩论，并已-自成立以来-在过去的十年里，新的发现，加上测量、数据分析和建模等新技术的应用，使这门科学重新焕发了活力。利用计算机和数学的最新进展将进一步加快科学发现、综合和出版的步伐。该RCN旨在促进和发展古地球科学家，古生物学家，生物信息学家，地层学家，地质年代学家，地理学家，数据科学家和计算机科学家之间以CI为重点的合作和伙伴关系，这将有助于消除现有的知识障碍，以显着提高现代数据管理方法，数据挖掘技术，和计算方法，以更好地分析沉积物，岩石，和冰在古地球科学和其他领域和学科。设想的活动包括一系列协调讲习班和网络研讨会，网络支持的网络，推广活动，如专题讨论会和市政厅会议，跨EarthCube协调，以及创建一个可互操作的C4 P资源目录，该目录将与其他EarthCube资源目录集成。C4 P中的高优先级主题是数据模型和计算中年龄和年龄不确定性的管理和表示，以促进时间参考数据类型之间的互操作性和分析，将物理样本集成到数字数据基础设施中，以及需要正确跟踪和归属数据的来源，以确保对数据的信任和作者的信用。

This project establishes and operates the EarthCube Research Coordination Network (RCN)Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences (C4P) to advance the role of cyberinfrastructure(CI) in unraveling the large-scale, long-term evolution of the Earth-Life System through thestudy of the geological record.Paleogeosciences research into our large-scale, long-term Earth-Life system is an ambitiousprogram that informs public debate on human stewardship of the earth and has - since its inception- caught public imagination on issues such as species survival under environmental changes.In the last decade, fresh discoveries, plus the application of new technologies of measurement,data analysis, and modeling have revitalized the science. Bringing to bear recent advancesin computing and mathematics will further quicken the pace of discoveries, synthesis and publicationin the science. This RCN intends to stimulate and grow CI-focused collaborations andpartnerships among paleogeoscientists, paleobiologists, bioinformaticists, stratigraphers,geochronologists, geographers, data scientists, and computer scientists that will help dissolveexisting intellectual barriers to dramatically improve the application of modern data managementapproaches, data mining technologies, and computational methods to better analyze the heterogeneousand sparse data of the Earth record in sediments, rocks, and ice within the paleogeosciencesand other domains and disciplines.Activities envisioned include a series of coordinated workshops and webinars, web-enabled networking, outreach events suchas symposia and town-hall meetings, and cross-EarthCube coordination, and creation of an interoperableC4P resource catalog that will be integrated with other EarthCube resource inventories. High-prioritythemes in C4P are the management and representation of age and age uncertainty in data modelsand computation to advance interoperability among and analysis of time-referenced data types,the integration of physical samples into digital data infrastructure, and the need to properlytrack and attribute provenance of data to ensure trust in the data and credit to authors.