CyberInfrastructure Proposal For EarthCube Community

This proposal proposes a cyberInfrastructure for long tails scientists to share and discover their data. Proposed system mainly supports three scenarios which can be identified in separate work flows.

Architecture

• Data Registry

Data publishers will register their data through the data registry and important provenance information such as author, location and etc will be collected.

• Annotator

Registered data will be annotated using standard vocabularies stored such as (GCMD and AGI index) using the annotation tools. These tools will suggest possible matches for the user and user will have the ability to further refine the suggestions given by the system. Annotations will be stored in the Meta Data Store.

• Indexer

• Simple Search

• Faceted Search

• Mapping to RDF

• Data Publisher

• Semantic Browsing

Form of Data

Table

Image

Unstructured Data

Links

Annotator - Kino http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/Kino

Semantic Browsing - iExplore http://knoesis.wright.edu/iExplore/