Announcing recent progress for data discovery in support of coral reef research!
Take advantage of this valuable community resource: a data discovery search engine with a special nose for locating coral reef research data sources: cinergi.sdsc.edu.
A major way CRESCYNT has made progress is by serving as a collective coral reef use case for EarthCube groups that are building great new software tools. One of those is a project called CINERGI. It registers resources – especially online repositories and individual online datasets, plus documents and software tools – and then enriches the descriptors to make the resources more searchable. The datasets themselves stay in place: a record of the dataset’s location and description are registered and augmented for better find and filter. Registered datasets and other resources, of course, keep whatever access and use license their authors have given them.
CINERGI already has over a million data sources registered, and over 11,000 of these are specifically coral reef datasets and data repositories. The interface now also features a geoportal to support spatial search options.
The CINERGI search tool is now able to incorporate ANY online resources you wish, so if you don’t find your favorite resources or want to connect your own publications, data, data products, software, code, and other resources, please contribute. If it’s a coral-related resource, be sure to include the word “coral” somewhere in your title or description so it can be retrieved that way later as well. (Great retrieval starts with great metadata!)
To add new resources: Go to cinergi.sdsc.edu, and click on CONTRIBUTE. Fill in ESPECIALLY the first fields – title, description, and URL – then as much of the rest as you can.
Thanks to EarthCube, the CINERGI Data Discovery Hub, and the great crew at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and partners for making this valuable tool possible for coral reef research and other geoscience communities. Here are slides and a video to learn more.
>>>Go to NSF EarthCube or the CRESCYNT website or the blog Masterpost.<<<
Coral Reef Science & Cyberinfrastructure Network 