EarthCube Conceptual Design: Enterprise Architecture for Transformative Research and Collaboration Across the Geosciences

EarthCube 概念设计：跨地球科学领域变革性研究与协作的企业架构

• 批准号: 1343813
• 负责人: Ilya Zaslavsky
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1343813&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EarthCube; Conceptual; Design; Enterprise; Architecture

EarthCube design is a complex socio-technical systemof systems, in which communication between various domain subsystems and previously disconnected CI components,people and organizations enables more comprehensive, data-intensive research designs and knowledge sharing. The main features of project include an approach that:(1) follows and enhances existing patterns of data, information and knowledge exchange within and between geoscience domains, (2) integrates ?traditional? layered cyberinfrastructure components (e.g.information sources, catalogs, vocabularies, services, analysis and modeling tools) with CI components supporting scholarly communication, self-organization and social networking (e.g.research profiles, Q&A systems, annotations) and (3) supports continuous EarthCube architecturalevolution. The proposed work will be done in close collaboration with other EarthCube activities,taking input from a wide group of geoscientists and CI experts engaged in EarthCube, as well as information system architects from a range of academic and commercial projects.Design parameters include system abilities to: a) evolve by factoring in the impact of maturing movements like linkeddata, ?big data?, and social collaborations; b) handle the volume, complexity and diversity of geoscience information; (b) incorporate new informational and analytical requirements, tools, and techniques,(c)accommodate different ideas and approaches to research and data stewardship;(d)make best use of NSFs current investment in the geoscience CI.The innovative aspect of this architecture planning will include three component. It will be designed as a system of systems,i.e., the basic information objects and infrastructure of any community will be re-used, but will be modeled in a manner that higher-level operations(e.g., vocabulary mashup) can be performed on them. It will be based on emerging interchange practices and protocols for scholarly objects, a paradigm that will be designed to foster inter-community research collaboration and exchange. It will be centered on a social network of communicating scientists who will use the interchange protocols. The social network will consist of both people and the information objects they choose to share as they conduct research.

EarthCube 设计是一个复杂的社会技术系统，其中各个领域子系统和以前断开连接的 CI 组件、人员和组织之间的通信可以实现更全面、数据密集型的研究设计和知识共享。该项目的主要特点包括以下方法：(1) 遵循并增强地球科学领域内和之间的现有数据、信息和知识交换模式，(2) 整合“传统”模式。分层网络基础设施组件（例如信息源、目录、词汇、服务、分析和建模工具）以及支持学术交流、自组织和社交网络（例如研究概况、问答系统、注释）的 CI 组件，以及（3）支持持续的 EarthCube 架构演化。拟议的工作将与其他 EarthCube 活动密切合作完成，并听取参与 EarthCube 的地球科学家和 CI 专家以及来自一系列学术和商业项目的信息系统架构师的意见。设计参数包括系统能力：a）通过考虑链接数据、“大数据”和社会协作等成熟运动的影响来发展； b) 处理地球科学信息的数量、复杂性和多样性； (b) 纳入新的信息和分析要求、工具和技术，(c) 适应研究和数据管理的不同想法和方法；(d) 充分利用 NSF 目前对地球科学 CI 的投资。该架构的创新之处规划将包括三个组成部分。它将被设计为系统的系统，即任何社区的基本信息对象和基础设施将被重用，但将以可以对其执行更高级别操作（例如词汇混搭）的方式进行建模。它将基于新兴的学术对象交换实践和协议，这是一种旨在促进社区间研究合作和交流的范式。它将以使用交换协议的通信科学家的社交网络为中心。社交网络将由人和他们在进行研究时选择共享的信息对象组成。