EarthCube Building Blocks: Deploying Web Services Across Multiple Geoscience Domains

此构建块项目旨在扩大简单Web服务的推广，以简化发现、访问和使用来自多个来源的数据的任务。研究人员将推动使用这一系统来管理来自科学长尾的数据，并使其可被发现，从而将其从“暗数据”领域中移除。长尾数据将来自受资助的合作伙伴中心和协作者。他们将通过Web服务将他们的方法扩展到由美国境内以及国际数据集的非NSF数据中心管理的数据集，方法是提供资源来支持Web服务以公开其他中心的数据持有量。地球立方体领域讲习班的一个反复出现的主题是，需要简化分享和发现地球科学数据的工作流程。目前，有相当多的时间被花在信息的“猎人和收集者”上，一旦找到这些信息，就决定如何理解和使用来自特定研究人员--S专业领域--以外的领域的数据。Web服务构建块的开发将极大地改变完成大部分准备工作的方式。这一构建块还将发展暴露“暗数据”的能力。花在准备和做科学上的时间之间的平衡将与目前大部分时间花在准备工作和少数时间花在做科学上的状态相反。这本身将对地球科学研究产生极其广泛的影响。Web服务构建块本质上实现了跨地球科学的水平集成，从而对可以解决的地学问题的广度产生影响。将简单的Web服务扩展到地球科学的提议将从根本上改变地球科学家进行研究的方式，整合来自不同学科的信息，并将其结果传达给公众、政策制定者和教育工作者。展示这些数据将显著增加可以应用于地球科学问题的知识体系。随着问题变得越来越复杂，为更好地了解广泛的地球科学问题而必须考虑和整合的数据集的多样性将会增加，将需要改进的技术和程序来在科学家和公众之间综合和交流由此产生的知识。这一组成部分是通过让EarthCube网络基础设施参与开发、建立和采用国际标准来支持这一过渡的努力，使地球科学家能够专注于科学，从而提高他们的生产力。

This Building Blocks project intends to extend the promotion of simple web services to simplify the task of discovering, accessing and using data from multiple sources. The investigators will promote the use of this system to manage data from the long tail of science and make it discoverable, removing it from the domain of "dark data". Long tail data will come from both funded partner centers and from collaborators. They will extend their approach of exposing data sets through web services to those managed by non-NSF data centers both within the US as well as international data sets by providing resources to stand up web servicesto expose the data holdings of other centers. A recurring theme in the EarthCube Domain Workshops was the need to simplify the workflows for sharing and discovery of data in geosciences. A significant amount of time is currently spent as "hunters and gatherers" of information and once finding that information to determinehow to understand and use data from domains outside a given researcher?s area of expertise. The development of the web services building block will significantly change the way in which much of the preparatory work will be accomplished. This building block will also develop the ability to expose "dark data". The balance between the time spent on preparing and doing science will be reversed from the current state where the majority of time is spent in preparation and the minority of the time spent on doing the science. This will in itself have extremely broad impacts in geosciences research. The web services building blocks inherently enable horizontal integration across the geosciences with a resulting impact on the breadth of geosciencesproblems that can be addressed.The proposed expansion of simple web services into the geosciences will fundamentally change the way geoscientists do their research, combine information from across disciplines and communicate their results to the public, policy makers and educators.Exposing such data will significantly add to the body of knowledgethat can be brought to bear on geosciences problems. As problems become more and more complex, the diversity of data sets that must be considered and integrated for a better understanding of a vast range of geoscience problems will increase, and enhanced technologies and procedures will be required to synthesize and communicate the resulting knowledge between scientist and with the public. This building block is an effort to support that transition by engaging EarthCube cyberinfrastructure in developing, establishing and adopting international standards to allow geoscientists to focus on the science, thus increasing their productivity.