See the NSF-funded DataONE project that has hugely ambitious aims for preservation, integration, access, synthesis, public engagement and citizen science, use, policy and other foci. Environmental science/earth observation, but species observation networks such as eBird as well.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
