EarthCube Building Blocks: Collaborative Proposal: GeoSoft: Collaborative Open Source Software Sharing for Geosciences

地球科学软件体现了关键的科学知识，因此应该明确地捕获，策划，管理和传播。该项目的目标是创建一个地球科学软件管理系统，使科学家能够将其软件作为宝贵的科学资产进行管理。科学软件管理需要网络基础设施、社会基础设施和专业发展基础设施的结合。该框架将为其他科学家、软件专业人员、学生和决策者提供开放、透明和更广泛的科学软件访问。它将显著提高开放数据和开放软件计划的采用率，提高可重复性，并促进科学奖学金。拟议的研究将促进科学软件作为一种宝贵的社区资产的知识和理解，值得共享，策划，编目，验证，重用和维护。1)通过TurboSoft促进软件发布，TurboSoft是一个个人助理（类似于TurboTax），可以通过最佳实践指导用户。用户将选择他们愿意在组件化、描述、许可和维护软件方面进行的投资程度。该系统将鼓励开源出版物，围绕软件形成社区，并建立软件引用和信用机制。2)通过GeoSoft实现广泛的软件传播，GeoSoft是地球科学的“软件公地”，将支持软件贡献（通过TurboSoft或其他方式编写），通过多方面搜索发现软件，并通过动态形成感兴趣的社区促进社会互动。GeoSoft将与地球科学中现有的软件库和建模框架进行互操作。3)通过GeoCamp提供及时的培训材料，GeoCamp是一个附有注释的教育单元集合，从基础教育到软件管理所有方面的专业培训。GeoCamp将与TurboSoft和GeoSoft无缝集成，并为用户提供广泛的学习选项。的上下文与框架的相互作用或独立。

Geosciences software embodies crucial scientific knowledge, and as such it should be explicitly captured, curated, managed, and disseminated. The goal of this project is to create a system for software stewardship in geosciences that will empower scientists to manage their software as valuable scientific assets. Scientific software stewardship requires a combination of cyberinfrastructure, social infrastructure, and professional development infrastructure. The framework will result in an open transparent and broader access to scientific software to other scientists, software professionals, students, and decision makers. It will significantly improve the adoption of open data and open software initiatives, improve reproducibility, and advance scientific scholarship.The proposed research will advance knowledge and understanding of scientific software as a valuable community asset that is worth sharing, curating, cataloging, validating, reusing, and maintaining. 1) Facilitating software publication through TurboSoft, a personal assistant (analogous to TurboTax) that guides a user through best practices. Users will choose the degree of investment they are willing to make in componentizing, describing, licensing, and maintaining their software. The system will encourage open source publication, the formation of communities around the software, and set up mechanisms for software citation and credit. 2) Enabling broad software dissemination through GeoSoft, a "software commons" for geosciences that will support software contributions (prepared through TurboSoft or otherwise), software discovery through multi-faceted search, and foster social interactions through dynamic formation of communities of interest. GeoSoft will interoperate with existing software repositories and modeling frameworks in geosciences. 3) Providing just-in-time training materials through GeoCamp, an annotated collection of educational units ranging from basic education to professional training on all aspects of software stewardship. GeoCamp will be seamlessly integrated with TurboSoft and GeoSoft, and present a wide range of options for learning in the context of a user?s context of interaction with the framework or independently.