Vision

The Curator team envisions increasingly capable infrastructure for Earth system reasearch and operations. The goal is to create scalable on-line communities that have access to a broad range of resources which can be linked into automated workflows. As the stakeholders in and impacts of Earth system science grow, the underlying innfrastructure will promote increasingly structured patterns of scientific, technical, and social intereaction, enabling communities to find and interact with each other to explore new ideas and solve problems.

• The creation of standard coupling interfaces and utilities for high-performance computing platforms, such as those in the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF). As the community adopts these interfaces, there are growing pools of interoperable scientific components.


• Connect web service protocols and loose coupling interfaces such as OpenMI to high performance components, enabling a broader spectrum of elements to be linked together.


• Develop and adapt standard metadata schemata to document component contents, and to foster automation. Incorporate tools for extracting metadata and writing metadata into modeling frameworks, so that users can capture technical and scientific information.


• Enable data and modeling portals to ingest metadata outputs, so that model and simulation descriptions can be easily collected and acccessed.


• Build governance tools into computational environments to support distributed model development and data analysis.


• Create scalable on-line communities that can create, modify and store artifacts from automated workflows, both ad hoc and using packages such as Kepler, that include metadata, models, data services, governance tools, and combinations of tight and loose coupling protocols.