EarthCube Data Capabilities: Collaborative Proposal: Broadening Community Use and Adoption of StraboSpot

EarthCube 数据功能：协作提案：扩大 StraboSpot 的社区使用和采用

• 批准号: 1928348
• 负责人: Julie Newman
• 金额: $ 56.55万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1928348&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EarthCube; Data; Capabilities; Collaborative; Proposal; EarthCube; Data; Capabilities; Collaborative; Proposal

Within the geological community, collaboration through a shared database would facilitate discovery and new scientific breakthroughs. However, geological data has proven difficult to enter into digital formats, necessary for a shared database, because of the nature of the data itself and the varied and complex methods used to collect these data. The StraboSpot digital data system was designed to overcome these difficulties and allow data from the geological sciences to become more easily accessible to both scientists and citizens. The new work will allow for the development of new mobile user interfaces, allowing geologists to collect field data in ways that are efficient and go beyond what is currently possible in a paper notebook and map. The new application will also integrate data collected at the microscopic level, including information about rock composition. Finally, the data and interpretations will be made available through search capabilities that will use the StraboSpot data repository. The broader impacts of this work include the engagement of scientists to best develop ways to share the data they collect, and the easier access to this data for scientists and the public.As part of the development efforts in this project, various geologic communities will be involved in initial design and evaluation. Continued engagement of these communities through field trips, workshops, and student outreach help to identify three objectives that will improve the data system and will lead to wider adoption and use of StraboSpot. The objectives are to: 1) Develop new mobile user interfaces - determined by ongoing and future conversations with the communities - that will allow practitioners to collect field data in ways that are compelling, efficient, and go beyond what is currently possible in a paper notebook or on a paper map; 2) Incorporate petrological data into the micrograph/thin section component of the database, in addition to creating a desktop user interface that works seamlessly with data collected with analytical instruments (such as scanning electron microscopes); and 3) Design and implement interfaces and transfer protocols to efficiently extract information from the StraboSpot data repository. If successful, StraboSpot will impact all practitioners in the geological sciences, motivating new and innovative research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在地质社区中，通过共享数据库的合作将有助于发现和新的科学突破。但是，由于数据本身的性质以及用于收集这些数据的多样化且复杂的方法，因此事实证明，对于共享数据库所必需的数字格式很难进入数字格式。 Strabospot数字数据系统旨在克服这些困难，并允许科学家和公民更容易获得地质科学的数据。新工作将允许开发新的移动用户界面，使地质学家可以以高效的方式收集现场数据，并超出纸质笔记本和地图中当前可能的方式。新应用程序还将集成在微观层面上收集的数据，包括有关岩石组成的信息。最后，将通过使用Strabospot数据存储库的搜索功能提供数据和解释。这项工作的更广泛的影响包括科学家的参与，以最好地开发共享收集数据的方法，以及为科学家和公众访问该数据的更容易访问。作为该项目的发展工作的一部分，各种地质社区将参与初始设计和评估。通过实地考察，研讨会和学生宣传继续参与这些社区，有助于确定三个目标，这些目标将改善数据系统，并将导致更广泛的采用和使用Strabospot。目的是：1）开发新的移动用户界面 - 由与社区进行的持续和将来的对话确定 - 这将使从业者可以以引人注目，高效的方式收集现场数据，并超越纸质笔记本或纸质图中当前可能的内容； 2）除了创建一个与分析仪器（例如扫描电子显微镜）无缝配合的桌面用户界面之外，还将岩石学数据纳入数据库的显微照片/薄截面组件； 3）设计和实施接口和传输协议，以从Strabospot数据存储库中有效提取信息。如果成功，Strabospot将影响地质科学中的所有从业者，激励新的创新研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估评估标准通过评估来支持的。