SI2-SSE: Visualizing Astronomy Repository Data using WorldWide Telescope Software Systems

SI2-SSE：使用全球望远镜软件系统可视化天文学存储库数据

• 批准号: 1642446
• 负责人: Patrick Heidorn
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1642446&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SI2; SSE; Visualizing; Astronomy; Repository

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) provides a powerful data-visualization interface for data exploration and presentation. Through the open source WWT visualization software systems, this project enables the broader use of institutional and community-based, researcher-oriented astronomy data repositories and computational tools. WWT will be integrated with Astrolabe, a University of Arizona (UA) data repository targeted at researchers with legacy data, mostly supporting scholarly articles, and being built to provide dataset access using the (NSF-funded) CyVerse cyberinfrastructure. By creating a full-featured WWT web-based front-end, modularized for ease of connection to diverse astronomy data archives and computational tools, this project incorporates previously un-curated data. The UA and American Astronomical Society (AAS) project team will engage the astronomy research community to participate in these developments to make WWT a community-defined interface for data archives with linkages provided between data, software tools, and journal publications. By expanding the functionality and enabling the integration of WWT into repositories through a web-based version, WWT will become a common tool in the astronomers' workflow including supporting citizen science activities carried out by volunteers. This enables strong connections between research, education, and outreach so that an astronomer could use WWT as part of their research activities, and then share the work with educational communities and the public to benefit society.The astronomy community faces many challenges related to the large scale of big data, specifically: (1) the visualization of specific datasets in the context of other observations; and (2) organizing and sharing underlying data to enable reuse, citation, and verification of results. Data archives often end up reinventing visualization systems, in turn duplicating previous efforts, and resulting in visualization interfaces built around the data rather than the needs of researchers. The astronomy researcher workflow incorporates depositing data to make it discoverable through search and browsing, accessible through open access, actionable through connections to existing tools as well as community-developed tools running on CyVerse, and finally visualizing or citing data. Through this project, WWT will provide a powerful interface for browsing, interacting with high performance and high throughput processing, and displaying data retrieved from searches of the archives. Effective searching will be enabled by integration with community-managed taxonomy, in the form of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) in both the Astrolabe functions and the WWT interface. In creating a full-featured, web-based client modular version of WWT as a front-end to archives, starting with Astrolabe, and integrating the UAT into search and browsing functions, this project will both serve the broad community of astronomy researchers as well as mitigating costs for archives to develop this visualization capacity.

全球望远镜 (WWT) 为数据探索和呈现提供了强大的数据可视化界面。通过开源 WWT 可视化软件系统，该项目能够更广泛地使用基于机构和社区、面向研究人员的天文学数据存储库和计算工具。 WWT 将与亚利桑那大学 (UA) 的数据存储库 Astrolabe 集成，该数据存储库针对拥有遗留数据的研究人员，主要支持学术文章，并使用（NSF 资助的）CyVerse 网络基础设施提供数据集访问。通过创建功能齐全的 WWT 基于网络的前端，并进行模块化以便于连接到不同的天文学数据档案和计算工具，该项目合并了以前未经整理的数据。 UA 和美国天文学会 (AAS) 项目团队将让天文学研究界参与这些开发，使 WWT 成为社区定义的数据存档界面，并在数据、软件工具和期刊出版物之间提供链接。通过扩展功能并通过网络版本将 WWT 集成到存储库中，WWT 将成为天文学家工作流程中的通用工具，包括支持志愿者开展的公民科学活动。这使得研究、教育和推广之间建立了牢固的联系，以便天文学家可以将 WWT 作为其研究活动的一部分，然后与教育界和公众分享工作，造福社会。天文学界面临着与大型天文学相关的许多挑战。大数据的规模，具体来说：（1）在其他观察的背景下特定数据集的可视化； (2) 组织和共享基础数据，以实现结果的重用、引用和验证。数据档案通常最终会重新发明可视化系统，从而重复以前的工作，并导致围绕数据而不是研究人员的需求构建可视化界面。天文学研究人员的工作流程包括存储数据，使其可通过搜索和浏览发现、可通过开放访问访问、可通过连接到现有工具以及在 CyVerse 上运行的社区开发的工具进行操作，最后可视化或引用数据。通过这个项目，WWT 将提供一个强大的界面，用于浏览、与高性能和高吞吐量处理交互以及显示从档案搜索中检索到的数据。通过与社区管理的分类法集成，以 Astrolabe 功能和 WWT 界面中的统一天文学词库 (UAT) 的形式，实现有效的搜索。从 Astrolabe 开始，创建一个功能齐全、基于 Web 的 WWT 客户端模块化版本作为档案前端，并将 UAT 集成到搜索和浏览功能中，该项目也将为广大天文学研究人员社区提供服务降低档案馆开发这种可视化能力的成本。

项目成果

Astrolabe: Curating, Linking, and Computing Astronomy’s Dark Data

• DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aab77e
• 发表时间: 2018-02
• 期刊: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
• 作者: P. Heidorn;Gretchen R. Stahlman;Julie Steffen

Mapping the “long tail” of research funding: A topic analysis of NSF grant proposals in the division of astronomical sciences

• DOI: 10.1002/pra2.276
• 发表时间: 2020-06
• 期刊: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
• 作者: Gretchen R. Stahlman;P. Heidorn

The Astrolabe Project: Identifying and Curating Astronomical ‘Dark Data’ through Development of Cyberinfrastructure Resources

星盘项目：通过开发网络基础设施资源来识别和管理天文“暗数据”

• DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201818603003
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: EPJ Web of Conferences
• 作者: Stahlman, Gretchen;Bryan Heidorn, P.;Steffen, Julie;Lesteven, S.;Kern, B.;D’Abrusco, R.;Dorch, B.
• 通讯作者: Dorch, B.