Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, National Research Council of Italy, Florence, Italy,
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2014 Mar;21(6):4177-92. doi: 10.1007/s11356-013-2264-y. Epub 2013 Nov 19.
Global sustainability research requires an integrative research effort underpinned by digital infrastructures (systems) able to harness data and heterogeneous information across disciplines. Digital data and information sharing across systems and applications is achieved by implementing interoperability: a property of a product or system to work with other products or systems, present or future. There are at least three main interoperability challenges a digital infrastructure must address: technological, semantic, and organizational. In recent years, important international programs and initiatives are focusing on such an ambitious objective. This manuscript presents and combines the studies and the experiences carried out by three relevant projects, focusing on the heavy metal domain: Global Mercury Observation System, Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), and INSPIRE. This research work recognized a valuable interoperability service bus (i.e., a set of standards models, interfaces, and good practices) proposed to characterize the integrative research cyber-infrastructure of the heavy metal research community. In the paper, the GEOSS common infrastructure is discussed implementing a multidisciplinary and participatory research infrastructure, introducing a possible roadmap for the heavy metal pollution research community to join GEOSS as a new Group on Earth Observation community of practice and develop a research infrastructure for carrying out integrative research in its specific domain.
全球可持续性研究需要有数字基础设施（系统）作为支撑，能够利用跨学科的数据和异类信息。通过实现互操作性，可以在系统和应用程序之间共享数字数据和信息，互操作性是指产品或系统与其他产品或系统（现有或未来的）协同工作的属性。数字基础设施至少需要应对三大主要互操作性挑战：技术、语义和组织。近年来，重要的国际计划和倡议都在聚焦这一宏大目标。本文介绍并整合了三个相关项目的研究和经验，重点关注重金属领域：全球汞观测系统、全球对地观测系统以及 INSPIRE。这项研究工作认可了一个有价值的互操作性服务总线（即一套标准模型、接口和良好实践），该总线被提议用于描述重金属研究界的综合研究网络基础设施。本文讨论了如何在实施多学科和参与式研究基础设施的同时利用全球对地观测系统通用基础设施，并为重金属污染研究界提出了一条可能的路线图，使其能够作为一个新的地球观测群体实践加入全球对地观测系统，并开发一个用于在其特定领域开展综合研究的研究基础设施。
