Abstract
Geoscience researchers are increasingly dependent on informatics and the Web to conduct their research. Geoscience is one of the first domains that take lead in initiatives such as open data, open code, open access, and open collections, which comprise key topics of Open Science in academia. The meaning of being open can be understood at two levels. The lower level is to make data, code, sample collections and publications, etc. freely accessible online and allow reuse, modification and sharing. The higher level is the annotation and connection between those resources to establish a network for collaborative scientific research. In the data science component of the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO), we have leveraged state-of-the-art information technologies and existing online resources to deploy a web portal for the over 1000 researchers in the DCO community. An initial aim of the portal is to keep track of all research and outputs related to the DCO community. Further, we intend for the portal to establish a knowledge network, which supports various stages of an open scientific process within and beyond the DCO community. Annotation and linking are the key characteristics of the knowledge network. Not only are key assets, including DCO data and methods, published in an open and inter-linked fashion, but the people, organizations, groups, grants, projects, samples, field sites, instruments, software programs, activities, meetings, etc. are recorded and connected to each other through relationships based on well-defined, formal conceptual models. The network promotes collaboration among DCO participants, improves the openness and reproducibility of carbon-related research, facilitates accreditation to resource contributors, and eventually stimulates new ideas and findings in deep carbon-related studies.
Highlights
Recent advances in cyberinfrastructure facilitate the culture of open science (Nosek et al, 2015) and provide a space for conducting scientific work in a more efficient way
For end users of the knowledge network, either from the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) community or the general public, the most familiar site is the DCO community portal (Figure 3) which was developed based on Drupal
All content in the knowledge network is open to the public, including the DCO community
Summary
Recent advances in cyberinfrastructure facilitate the culture of open science (Nosek et al, 2015) and provide a space for conducting scientific work in a more efficient way. The keyword “open” in those open science efforts does not mean to publish individual works or resources as separated fragments. Instead, those resources can be categorized, annotated, and Weaving a Knowledge Network connected to each other, and form a knowledge network (Ma et al, 2014b). There could be another relationship “author of ” which connects the researcher to a number of publications (Figure 1) Such an open knowledge network has a lot of potential uses in resource discovery and access, program administration, research collaboration, scientometrics, research trend analysis, and more. In a recent research program called Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO), under the Data Science activity, we successfully carried out a study in that direction and put it into practical use for the DCO community
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