EarthCube Building Blocks: Software Stewardship for the Geosciences

EarthCube 构建模块：地球科学的软件管理

• 批准号: 1343800
• 负责人: Yolanda Gil
• 金额: $ 31.5万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 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 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1343800&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EarthCube; Building; Blocks; Software; Stewardship

Geoscience and environmental science software is crucial for data analysis and generating new knowledge and understanding about the Earth. Because reproducibility of operations, calculations, and predictions done with this software is important for science, commercial, and regulatory applications, it is important that the software generated by geoscientists and their colleagues be captured, curated, managed, and made available to all interested parties upon request. This project initiates that process by building partnerships between computer scientist, software developers, and scientists across all geoscience domains with the goal or creating a software ecosystem and a culture of software stewardship that will empower geoscientists and others to make their software accessible and manage it as a valuable scientific asset. This work will examine the possibility of creating effective on-line tools that will guide users through best practices in software use and development, including componentizing codes, describing and documenting their codes, licensing their programs, and maintaining reusable code. It will also explore the best and most effective means for training geoscientists and providing appropriate educational/training materials to dramatically improve the ability of geoscientists to more effectively develop and curate software generated by themselves, their students, and others. Broader impacts of the work include building infrastructure for science, engagement of early career professionals in both computer and geoscience, and increasing cyber sophistication of geoscience practitioners. The project supports a core team that is geographically distributed (California, Pennsylvania, and Colorado) and partners with a nation-wide consortium of academic organizations dedicated to advancing geoscience geospatial needs.

地球科学和环境科学软件对于数据分析以及生成有关地球的新知识和理解至关重要。由于使用该软件完成的操作、计算和预测的可重复性对于科学、商业和监管应用非常重要，因此捕获、策划、管理地球科学家及其同事生成的软件并将其提供给所有感兴趣的各方也很重要根据要求。该项目通过在计算机科学家、软件开发人员和所有地球科学领域的科学家之间建立合作伙伴关系来启动这一过程，其目标是创建一个软件生态系统和软件管理文化，使地球科学家和其他人能够像其他人一样访问和管理他们的软件。宝贵的科学资产。这项工作将研究创建有效的在线工具的可能性，这些工具将指导用户完成软件使用和开发的最佳实践，包括组件化代码、描述和记录代码、许可程序以及维护可重用代码。它还将探索培训地球科学家的最佳和最有效的方法，并提供适当的教育/培训材料，以显着提高地球科学家更有效地开发和管理他们自己、学生和其他人生成的软件的能力。这项工作的更广泛影响包括建设科学基础设施、计算机和地球科学领域早期职业专业人员的参与以及提高地球科学从业者的网络复杂性。该项目支持一个分布在各地（加利福尼亚州、宾夕法尼亚州和科罗拉多州）的核心团队，并与致力于推进地球科学地理空间需求的全国性学术组织联盟合作。