A symposium was held Saturday in Kunshan city on the upcoming launch of Deep-time Digital Earth, a geological sciences program dedicated to “lift” centuries-old data held by museums, research institutes, and individual scientists “from page to cyberspace.”
Zhang Guangjun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Cao Lubao, Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee, and Hu Guangjie, Vice Governor attended the event and delivered speeches.
In December 2018, Deep-time Digital Earth or DDE as an International Big Science program was recognized by the International Union of Geological Sciences, one of the world’s largest scientific unions. DDE aims to enable and enhance data-driven discovery in the geosciences and create linked, interoperable big-data hubs that integrate unpublished data with existing databases in the public domain.
The program will focus on the major scientific proposition of the evolution of the earth, integrate the big data of the earth's time and space in the past billions of years, and build a one-stop processing and analysis platform that is shared globally so as to strive for greater breakthroughs in major core scientific issues such as the evolution of earth's material, life, geography, and climate evolution, and further deepen the understanding of the distribution of mineral resources and energy.
