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

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.

在地质界内，通过共享数据库进行协作将促进发现和新的科学突破。然而，事实证明，由于数据本身的性质以及收集这些数据所用的方法多种多样且复杂，地质数据很难输入共享数据库所必需的数字格式。 StraboSpot 数字数据系统旨在克服这些困难，让科学家和公民能够更轻松地获取地质科学数据。这项新工作将允许开发新的移动用户界面，使地质学家能够以高效且超越目前纸质笔记本和地图的方式收集现场数据。新应用程序还将整合在微观层面收集的数据，包括有关岩石成分的信息。最后，数据和解释将通过使用 StraboSpot 数据存储库的搜索功能提供。这项工作的更广泛影响包括科学家的参与，以最好的方式共享他们收集的数据，以及科学家和公众更容易获取这些数据。作为该项目开发工作的一部分，各个地质界将参与初步设计和评估。这些社区通过实地考察、研讨会和学生外展的持续参与有助于确定三个目标，从而改进数据系统并导致 StraboSpot 的更广泛采用和使用。目标是： 1) 开发新的移动用户界面（由与社区正在进行和未来的对话决定），这将使从业者能够以引人注目、高效且超越纸质笔记本目前可能的方式收集现场数据或在纸质地图上； 2) 除了创建与分析仪器（例如扫描电子显微镜）收集的数据无缝协作的桌面用户界面外，还将岩石学数据纳入数据库的显微照片/薄片组件中； 3) 设计和实现接口和传输协议，以有效地从 StraboSpot 数据存储库中提取信息。如果成功，StraboSpot 将影响地质科学领域的所有从业者，激励新的创新研究。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。