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Towards Earth and Space Science digital infrastructures: network, computing and data services (Articolo in rivista)
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- 2009-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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- Nativi S.; Ramamurthy M.; Woolf A. (literal)
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- Earth and Space scientists are engaged in integrating knowledge stemming from different disciplines about the constituent parts of the complex Sun-Earth system with the objective of understanding its properties as a whole. Earth and Space system analysis is as real a challenge for information technology as it is for scientists. In fact, the scope and complexity of Earth and Space system investigations demand the formation of distributed, multidisciplinary collaborative teams. The development and deployment of advanced digital infrastructures (e.g. e-infrastructure and cyber-infrastructures) will support the needs of the Earth and Space Systems Science Community and facilitate multidisciplinary knowledge integration.
Both the US and European premier scientific unions are recognizing this the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has established an Earth and Space Sciences Informatics (ESSI) Focus group, and the European Geosciences Union (EGU) has recently created a new scientific Division for ESSI. The EGU - ESSI division is conceived as a European forum for the Earth and Space Systems Science multidisciplinary community, within the broader international framework of geospatial information technology. The ESSI division aims at facilitating the integration of information systems from different geoscience disciplines, addressing the heterogeneity that characterizes their data and metadata models, protocols, interfaces, semantics, and embedded knowledge.
In order to achieve these objectives, it is important to promote the present best practice to scale from specific, monolithic and data-centric systems towards independent, modular, and service-oriented infrastructures. This approach aims to provide scientists, researchers and decision makers with a persistent set of independent services and information that scientists can integrate into a range of more complex analyses. These infrastructures will support Earth and Space scientists to leverage the recent advances in information and communication technologies, including: Model Driven Architectures (MDA), Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), semi-structured data model and encodings, and consequent infrastructures e.g. Internet, GRID, Cloud computing.
There has been a steady increase in interest in the application of information technologies to the Earth and Space sciences, as evidenced by the substantial investment by science funding agencies such as the U. S. National Science Foundation and EC Research & Development Framework Programmes. Considerable intellectual innovation is occurring as a result of data, services, information and knowledge sharing across traditional disciplinary and geographic boundaries.
Several important international initiatives and programmes have been launched to cover this emerging multi-disciplinary field e.g. GEOSS, GMES, NSDI, INSPIRE, NFGIS, NEON, and EuroGEOSS. Many others are in the planning stages and will likely be launched in the coming years. There is the clear need to report and discuss initiatives, experiences, opportunities and concerns of the Geosciences Community as far as Informatics-related topics are concerned. Such forums play a prominent role in bringing the ESSI community together and toward influencing specifications and standardizing conventions and data formats, and lead efforts to integrate geosciences data with GIS, Digital Earth, SOA, and other emerging technologies.
In essence, we envision the development of Earth and Space Science digital infrastructures, which will serve the international Digital Earth community. For Digital Earth, an important goal is to integrate data and services from multidisciplinary and disparate sources. Interoperability and metadata are key instruments to reaching that goal. They are achieved by adopting and applying international standards and special arrangements for network, computing, and data services. (literal)
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