Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance: Continued Support for a Data Center that Allows Public Access and Discoverability of Solid Earth Geoscience Data from NSF-Funded Research

确保与纳税人资助的研究有关的结果和数据对科学界和普通公众都是可访问的，是国家科学基金会的一项基本职能。为了给固体地球科学的数据提供这样的服务，美国国家科学基金会的几个项目联合资助了哥伦比亚大学的综合地球数据应用数据管理中心。 自2009年以来，该数据中心已成为重要的地球科学社区资源，并在托管，访问和制作来自海洋地球物理学，火成岩学和火山学，热液喷口，南极洲和各种其他固体地球科学学科的数据方面处于领先地位。它也是创建，测试和实施工具，实用程序和界面的国际领导者，使其数据更容易访问和共享;为物理样本和数据集提供唯一标识符，以便生产数据的人获得他们的工作;使其数据可访问并将其数据链接到其他数据中心;与出版商合作，将存储库数据链接到出版物;并帮助申请联邦资金的调查人员制定符合机构要求的数据管理计划。2016年的持续支持使数据中心能够继续提供这些服务和相关服务。更广泛的影响包括免费和开放地获取广泛的数据，从而推动固体地球和极地地球科学研究。数据中心的实用程序、服务和数据也用于各种教育企业，其影响范围从高中到研究生院乃至更远。通过其积极主动和以社区为中心的方法，该数据中心还帮助创建了数据互操作性的创新解决方案，构建了可被采用并传输到其他数据中心的重要新网络基础设施。对综合地球数据应用数据中心（现已更名为综合地球数据联盟）的持续资助使公众能够免费和公开地获取各种地球科学学科的数据和研究成果。它包括一个核心的基本服务和接口，围绕创新的数据模型和搜索/可视化工具构建，数据集或信息可以被纳入，集成和公开访问。它支持整个数据生命周期的数据管理，长期存档在联邦部门。其运作的一个关键组成部分是密切关注它所服务的科学界成员并与之互动，包括举办讲习班、社区咨询结构和专业科学会议。这些互动有助于确定新的开发目标和差距，以及/或数据中心产品和性能需要改进的地方。除了继续运营和向固体地球科学界提供网络基础设施和数据管理服务外，还努力将数据库转移到云端，以改善用户体验并减少下载和刷新时间。

Ensuring that the results and data related to taxpayer-funded research are accessible and discoverable to both the scientific and lay public is an essential function of the National Science Foundation. In an effort to provide such services for data in the solid earth geosciences, several NSF programs jointly funded the Integrated Earth Data Applications Data Management Center at Columbia University. Since 2009, this data center has become an important geoscience community resource and a leader in hosting, making accessible, and making discoverable data from marine geophysics, igneous petrology and volcanology, hydrothermal vents, the Antarctic, and a variety of other solid earth geoscience disciplines. It is also an international leader in creating, testing, and implementing tools, utilities, and interfaces to make its data more easily accessible and discoverable; providing unique identifiers for physical samples and datasets so those who produce data get credit for their work; making accessible and linking its data to that in other data centers; working with publishers to link repository data to publications; and helping investigators applying for Federal funds create agency-compliant data management plans. Continued support in 2016 allows the data center to continue these and associated services. Broader impacts include free and open access to a wide range of data holdings, enabling advances solid-earth and polar geoscience research. The data center's utilities, services, and data are also used in a wide variety of educational enterprises whose impacts range from high school to graduate school and beyond. Through its proactive and community-focused approach, the data center has also helped to create innovative solutions for data interoperability, building essential new cyberinfrastructure that can be adopted and transported to other data centers. Continued funding for the Integrated Earth Data Applications data center, now renamed the Integrated Earth Data Alliance, enables free and open public access to data and research results from a wide variety of geoscience disciplines. It consists of a core of basic services and interfaces built around innovative data models and search/visualization tools into which datasets or information can be incorporated, integrated, and made publicly accessible. It supports data stewardship through the full data life cycle with long-term archives residing in the Federal sector. A key component of its operation is close attention to and interaction with members of the scientific communities it serves thorough workshops; a community advisory structure; and professional science meetings. These interactions help identify new development targets and gaps and/or needed improvement in data center products and performance. In addition to its continued operation and the providing of cyberinfrastructure and data management services to the solid earth geoscience community, efforts are in force to move data holdings into the cloud to improve the user experience and decrease download and refresh times.