DigitalCrust
DigitalCrust is a community of geologists who build software for collaborative geological research. We encourage coordination across organizations towards a community-level Digital twin of the crust. Among our broad goals are to
- Encorage "grassroots" practices of code-level collaboration among geoscientists.
- Establish software-driven links between organizations and subfields
- Build software literacy among early-career scientists to enable these collaborative ties
- Foster a vibrant and integrated community ecosystem of software-oriented scientists
- Work collaboratively towards a digital crust, an open and distributed software infrastructure that integrates geological information across space and time
People
DigitalCrust was created by geologists and informatics professionals who seek to collaborate more closely across organizational bounds
Motivation
Current collaborative and funding practices for geoinformatics research result in development silos, low community adoption rates, competing platforms, and duplication of effort between organizations. DigitalCrust advocates for lightweight collaborative practices borrowed from the open-source software community to improve community connectivity.
Approach
DigitalCrust seeks to build coordination through low-overhead virtual meetings and training and outreach events. It seeks to direct contributions to the many other geoscience informatics and software efforts in our community Ecosystem. As a loose collaborative enterprise, it remains open to new initiatives in the future.
Get involved
There are many ways to get involved for geologists of all levels, starting from simply attending our biweekly standing meeting.