EarthCube Building Blocks: Collaborative Proposal: Enabling Scientific Collaboration and Discovery through Semantic Connections

数据、信息、思想和技术通过社会和组织网络传播，如果采用它们的障碍很低，新方法的好处很明显。该项目将美国国家大气研究中心（NCAR）、UNAVCO和康奈尔大学联合起来，通过示范和鼓励采用基于共同标准的结构化信息系统，了解如何改善地球科学领域的合作和资源共享过程。通过两个大型地球科学研究项目作为案例研究，本文将展示语义网和关联数据技术如何在科学虚拟组织及其产品的协调和组织中发挥重要作用，从而加快科学发现和创新的步伐。研究人员将使用一个开发良好的开源web应用程序作为集成数据层，以暴露案例研究中的信息关系和组织协作。该项目将成为使用关联数据支持地球科学领域虚拟组织的典范。这些努力将为利用关联数据支持信息和数据交换的新工具提供支持，并将产生有关让用户社区参与关联数据项目的建议。该项目将深入了解地球科学如何利用关联数据为大型多学科项目和虚拟组织提供更连贯的信息和数据发现方法。他们将使用开源的VIVO软件应用程序来说明关联数据如何通过基于丰富的网络元数据的前端发现来改变科学项目的沟通和传播。VIVO平台为研究人员和教育工作者提供了使用结构化、可解释数据的新功能，允许跨平台和项目的信息和数据直接互连。该项目将利用已在地球科学和网络基础设施社区得到良好发展和广泛采用的web标识符和词汇结构，将数据构建为基于本体的标准数据格式（RDF），以供重用。

Data, information, ideas, and technologies diffuse through social and organizational networks, if the impediments to their adoption are low and the benefits of new approaches are clear. This project brings together the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), UNAVCO, and Cornell University to understand how to improve the processes of collaboration and resource sharing in the geosciences by demonstrating and encouraging the adoption of structured information systems rooted in common standards. Using two large geoscience research programs as case studies, this effort will demonstrate how semantic web and linked data technology can play an essential role in the coordination and organization of scientific virtual organizations and their products, thereby accelerating the pace of scientific discovery and innovation. The researchers will use a well-developed open source web application as an integrating data layer to expose the informational relationships and organizational collaborations within the case studies. This project will be an exemplar of using linked data to support virtual organizations in the geosciences. These efforts will feed into new tools that leverage linked data to support information and data exchange, and will produce recommendations on engaging user communities in linked data projects. This project will provide insight into how the geosciences can leverage linked data to produce more coherent methods of information and data discovery for large multi-disciplinary projects and virtual organizations. They will use the open source VIVO software application to illustrate how linked data can transform scientific project communication and dissemination via front end discovery based on rich networked metadata. The VIVO platform provides new capabilities for researchers and educators to use structured, interpretable data, permitting direct interlinking of information and data across platforms and projects. The project will structure data into an ontology-based, standard data format (RDF) for re-use, leveraging web identifier and vocabulary structures that have been well developed and widely adopted in the geoscience and cyberinfrastructure communities.