CI CoE: CI Compass: An NSF Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Center of Excellence for Navigating the Major Facilities Data Lifecycle

创新和强大的网络基础设施（CI）对于NSF主要设施（MF）的科学任务至关重要，这些设施处于科学和工程创新的前沿，能够在广泛的科学领域实现开创性的发现。MFs通过捕获、管理和服务来自各种科学仪器（从望远镜到传感器）的数据，为科学家、研究人员和公众服务。多边基金收集和传播的数据量在复杂性和规模上不断增长，新的软件解决方案也在以越来越快的速度开发。多边基金并不总是拥有所有的专业知识、人力资源或预算来利用新的能力或自己解决每一个技术问题。拟议的NSF网络基础设施卓越中心CI Compass将来自多个学科的专家聚集在一起，对科学CI有着共同的热情，成为一个解决问题的团队，该团队策划社区所知的最佳内容;分享专业知识和经验;连接社区以应对新兴挑战;并在新兴技术领域内建立和创新。通过支持MF增强和发展基础CI，拟议的CI指南针将扩大NSF最大的科学投资，并对MF科学和工程领域以及MF服务的科学家，工程师和教育工作者社区产生变革性的广泛社会影响。CI指南针还将通过传播CI指南针的成果，影响更广泛的NSF CI生态系统，这可以适应和采用其他大型CI项目，从而使他们能够更有效地服务于他们的用户社区。拟议的CI指南针的目标是加强CI基础的MF数据生命周期（DLC），代表转换的原始数据捕获的状态-将艺术科学MF仪器转化为可互操作和集成的数据产品，这些产品可以可视化，传播并转化为见解和知识。CI Compass将与MF合作，通过提供一系列服务，包括评估CI计划，帮助设计新的架构和解决方案，开发概念证明，以及评估现有CI解决方案的适用性和性能，为MF DLC CI贡献知识和专业知识。 CI Compass还将通过在MF CI专业人员之间建立联系，促进专题工作组和组织社区会议，实现MF和CI社区之间的知识共享。CI Compass还将通过在线渠道、出版物和社区活动传播最佳实践和经验教训。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Innovative and robust Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is critical to the science missions of the NSF Major Facilities (MFs), which are at the forefront of science and engineering innovations, enabling pathbreaking discoveries across a broad spectrum of scientific areas. The MFs serve scientists, researchers and the public at large by capturing, curating, and serving data from a variety of scientific instruments (from telescopes to sensors). The amount of data collected and disseminated by the MFs is continuously growing in complexity and size and new software solutions are being developed at an increasing pace. MFs do not always have all the expertise, human resources, or budget to take advantage of the new capabilities or to solve every technological issue themselves. The proposed NSF Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence, CI Compass, brings together experts from multiple disciplines, with a common passion for scientific CI, into a problem-solving team that curates the best of what the community knows; shares expertise and experiences; connects communities in response to emerging challenges; and builds on and innovates within the emerging technology landscape. By supporting MFs to enhance and evolve the underlying CI, the proposed CI Compass will amplify the largest of NSF’s science investments, and have a transformative, broad societal impact on a multitude of MF science and engineering areas and the community of scientists, engineers, and educators MFs serve. CI Compass will also impact the broader NSF CI ecosystem through dissemination of CI Compass outcomes, which can be adapted and adopted by other large-scale CI projects and thus empower them to more efficiently serve their user communities.The goal of the proposed CI Compass is to enhance the CI underlying the MF data lifecycle (DLC) that represents the transformation of raw data captured by state-of-the-art scientific MF instruments into interoperable and integration-ready data products that can be visualized, disseminated, and converted into insights and knowledge. CI Compass will engage with MFs and contribute knowledge and expertise to the MF DLC CI by offering a collection of services that includes evaluating CI plans, helping design new architectures and solutions, developing proofs of concept, and assessing applicability and performance of existing CI solutions. CI Compass will also enable knowledge-sharing across MFs and the CI community, by brokering connections between MF CI professionals, facilitating topical working groups, and organizing community meetings. CI Compass will also disseminate the best practices and lessons learned via online channels, publications, and community events.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.