EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: LinkedEarth: Crowdsourcing Data Curation & Standards Development in Paleoclimatology

EarthCube IA：协作提案：LinkedEarth：众包数据管理

• 批准号: 1541029
• 负责人: Julien Emile-Geay
• 金额: $ 68.48万
• 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: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1541029&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EarthCube; IA; Collaborative; Proposal; LinkedEarth

Natural climate variability signficantly modulates anthropogenic global warming, and only paleoclimate observations can adequately constrain it. Moreover, such observations are most powerful when many records are brought together to provide a spatial understanding of past variability. However, there is currently no universal way to share paleoclimate data between users or machines, hindering integration and synthesis. Large-scale, international, paleoclimate data syntheses have a long and successful history, but have been needlessly labor-intensive. Recognizing that (1) paleoclimate data curation requires expert knowledge; (2) top-down data management approaches are ineffectual; (3) existing infrastructure does not foster standardization; there emerges a critical need for a flexible platform enabling crowdsourced data curation and standards development.The platform will be combined with editorial and community-driven processes which will result in a system that has the potential to engage a broad user base in geoscientific data curation. The proposed framework will lower barriers to participation in the geosciences, enabling more "dark data" to join the public domain using community-sanctioned protocols. The pilot project will facilitate the work of hundreds of paleoclimate scientists, accelerating scientific discovery and the dissemination of its results to society.Semantic wikis provide a simple, intuitive interface to semantic languages and infrastructure that build on open Web architecture. Like traditional wikis, they enable the collaborative authoring of content. Secure access and time-stamped content also enable the tracking of changes and the accountability of users, as well as moderation capabilities by community members of recognized expertise. In contrast to traditional wikis, semantic wikis allow contributors to assign meaning to their content, specifying relationships between the objects they describe. This enables artificial intelligence reasoners to parse, process and translate these data into more useful forms. The technology is well-proven, scalable, and completely transparent to the user, requiring no computer science knowledge or more sophisticated technology than a web browser. The LinkedEarth Wiki will automatically translate this information into Linked Open Data, a universal format to share data across the Web. To demonstrate this concept?s broad applicability across paleoclimate science, the project?s target community is the PAGES2k consortium, an international collaboration dedicated to the climate of the Common Era. Social technologies will be developed to power collective curation, standards development and quality control by the community itself. The project will demonstrate applicability to other paleogeosciences, serving as a potential template for other geoscientific disciplines.

自然气候变异性迹象符号调节人为的全球变暖，只有古气候观察才能充分限制它。此外，当许多记录被汇集在一起​​以提供对过去可变性的空间理解时，这种观察最有力。但是，目前尚无通用方法在用户或机器之间共享古气候数据，阻碍集成和综合。大规模，国际，古气候数据合成的历史悠久而成功，但不必要地是劳动力密集的。认识到（1）古气候数据策展需要专家知识； （2）自上而下的数据管理方法是无效的； （3）现有的基础设施不会促进标准化；对灵活的平台产生了迫切需求，可以使众包数据策划和标准开发。该平台将与社论和社区驱动的流程结合使用，这将导致系统有可能使广泛的用户基础参与地球科学数据策划。拟议的框架将降低参与地球科学的障碍，使更多的“黑暗数据”使用社区批准的协议加入公共领域。试点项目将促进数百名古气候科学家的工作，加速科学发现及其成果向社会传播。SmanticWikis为语义语言和基础架构提供了一个简单，直观的界面，这些界面是在开放的网络架构上建立的。像传统的Wiki一样，它们能够合作的内容创作。安全的访问和时间stamp的内容还可以跟踪更改和用户的问责制，以及社区成员公认的专业知识的适度功能。与传统的Wiki相反，语义Wikis允许贡献者为其内容分配含义，并指定其描述的对象之间的关系。这使人工智能推理者能够解析，处理和将这些数据转化为更有用的形式。该技术对用户进行了完善，可扩展的，并且完全透明，不需要计算机科学知识或比Web浏览器更复杂的技术。 LinkEdearth Wiki将自动将此信息转化为链接的开放数据，这是一种通用格式，可在整个网络上共享数据。为了证明这一概念在古气候科学之间的广泛适用性，该项目的目标社区是否是专门针对共同时代气候的国际合作，Pages2k联盟。社会技术将由社区本身开发为电力集体策划，标准发展和质量控制。该项目将证明适用于其他古科学，作为其他地球科学学科的潜在模板。