Maintaining Curated View Databases

维护精选视图数据库

• 批准号: 9975206
• 负责人: Susan Davidson
• 金额: $ 56.17万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-10-01 至 2003-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9975206&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Maintaining; Curated; View; Databases

This Project will develop database tools that will enhance the ability of researchers in one emerging and interdisciplinary field -- forest canopy studies -- to collect, analyze, link, and archive their data.The field of forest canopies is currently in its adolescence, and is growing rapidly in terms of interest from the scientific community, the general public, and policy makers. Coordinated study of the canopy is beginning at shared research sites, but canopy researchers view their major obstacle to answer emerging questions as the lack of database tools that would allow them to gather their data in harmonized ways and to link their data to enable comparative studies.Previous NSF-sponsored collaborative research developed preliminary database tools and datasets, based on pilot studies of forest canopy structure/function relationships at the Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility. These tools included data models, a metadata database, and a web-based project inventory for a multi-PI global climate change study.This project develops these tools further by gathering archived and current data to test hypotheses on canopy structure/function relationships in a gradient of coniferous forests of differing structural diversity, ranging from very structurally complex (the late-successional primary forests) to very structurally simple (young monospecific plantation forests). These tools will be extended to incorporate forests of different structural constituents from two other forest types in Panama and Australia, both of which have a canopy crane facility and support collaborative canopy research. Researchers at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, the Forest Science Database Center at Oregon State University, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the Centre for Tropical Forest Studies will participate as part of a collaboration.The project will disseminate findings through workshops and through the development of a "virtual center" of canopy research, building upon theexisting International Canopy Network which is housed at Evergreen State. Research activities will be incorporated into opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.

该项目将开发数据库工具，以增强一个新兴和跨学科领域的研究人员的能力 - 森林冠层研究 - 收集，分析，链接和存档其数据。目前，森林檐篷的领域正处于青少年状态，并且从科学社区，一般公众，一般公众和政策制造商的利益方面迅速增长。 Coordinated study of the canopy is beginning at shared research sites, but canopy researchers view their major obstacle to answer emerging questions as the lack of database tools that would allow them to gather their data in harmonized ways and to link their data to enable comparative studies.Previous NSF-sponsored collaborative research developed preliminary database tools and datasets, based on pilot studies of forest canopy structure/function relationships at the Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility.这些工具包括数据模型，一个元数据数据库以及用于多PI的全球气候变化研究的基于网络的项目清单。本项目通过收集存档和当前数据来进一步开发这些工具，以测试针叶层结构/功能关系的假设，这些结构/功能之间的结构性多样性（从结构上非常复杂（年轻）较新的森林（年轻）较新的（年轻），从森林）。这些工具将扩展，以纳入来自巴拿马和澳大利亚其他两种森林类型的不同结构成分的森林，它们都有一个顶篷起重机设施并支持协作式顶篷研究。 H.J. Andrews实验森林，俄勒冈州立大学的森林科学数据库中心，史密森尼热带研究所和热带森林研究中心的研究人员将作为合作的一部分参与。研究活动将纳入本科和研究生的机会。