Collaborative Research: CSSI: Framework: Data: Clowder Open Source Customizable Research Data Management, Plus-Plus

保存、共享、导航和重用大量不同的数据集合现在对于表型组学、材料科学、地球科学和城市科学等领域的科学发现至关重要。这些数据导航需求在解决数据和工具必须跨越多个领域的越来越多的研究领域时也很重要。为了有效地支持这些需求，需要新的方法来简化和减少研究人员寻找和利用数据所需的工作量，支持社区接受的数据实践，并将社区使用的标准，工具和资源的广度结合起来。Clowder是一个基于主动策展的数据管理系统，它通过在数据的整个生命周期中分配大部分数据策展开销来解决这些需求和挑战，通过社交策展和自动化分析工具来增强这一点，并提供可扩展的社区依赖的查看和导航数据的方法。作为一个开源框架，Clowder能够在各个级别上进行扩展，能够与各种社区工具进行交互和利用，同时还支持不同的数据治理和所有权要求。该项目增强了Clowder的核心系统，使更多的用户受益。它提高了与社区资源的互操作性水平，强化了核心软件，并分发了核心软件开发，同时继续扩大使用范围。 建立治理机制和业务模型，使Clowder可持续发展，创建适当的治理结构，以确保软件继续可用，可支持和可用。 这项工作涉及许多利益相关者，从已经使用Clowder框架的不同但融合的科学领域获取数据，以解决广泛的互操作性和跨领域数据共享问题。总体努力将把基层的Clowder用户社区和Clowder的其他利益相关者（如当前和潜在的开发人员）转变为一个更大的有组织的社区，并提供可持续的软件资源来支持收敛的研究数据需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Preserving, sharing, navigating, and reusing large and diverse collections of data is now essential to scientific discoveries in areas such as phenomics, materials science, geoscience, and urban science. These data navigation needs are also important when addressing the growing number of research areas where data and tools must span multiple domains. To support these needs effectively, new methods are required that simplify and reduce the amount of effort needed by researchers to find and utilize data, support community accepted data practices, and bring together the breadth of standards, tools, and resources utilized by a community. Clowder, an active curation based data management system, addresses these needs and challenges by distributing much of the data curation overhead throughout the lifecycle of the data, augmenting this with social curation and automated analysis tools, and providing extensible community-dependent means of viewing and navigating data. As an open source framework, built to be extensible at every level, Clowder is capable of interacting with and utilizing a variety of community tools while also supporting different data governance and ownership requirements.The project enhances Clowder's core systems for the benefit of a larger group of users. It increases the level of interoperability with community resources, hardens the core software, and distributes core software development, while continuing to expand usage. Governance mechanisms and a business model are established to make Clowder sustainable, creating an appropriate governance structure to ensure that the software continues to be available, supportable, and usable. The effort engages a number of stakeholders, taking data from diverse but converging scientific domains already using the Clowder framework, to address broad interoperability and cross domain data sharing. The overall effort will transition the grassroots Clowder user community and Clowder's other stakeholders (such as current and potential developers) into a larger organized community, with a sustainable software resource supporting convergent research data needs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.