The LIKED resource - a LIbrary KnowledgE and discovery online resource for discovering and implementing knowledge, data, and infrastructure resources

Access points to Heliophysics information are often poorly inter-linked to one another, making it challenging for researchers to inte-grate information, mature their understanding, and incorporate more complex ideas and relationships into their analyses. The authors reason this behavior to be a direct conseaquence of the lack of infrastructure for knowledge and data discovery in Heliophysics. Building an online library resource for Heliophysics addresses this gap in resources, and can also address other troublesome gaps related to community-building, such as access to help from other scientists, example analysis tutorials, and collaboration opportunities. This paper envisions a resource that better connects existing Heliophysics information and knowledge sources, the LIbrary for KnowledgE and Dis-covery (LIKED), which will be an online resource that interlinks information across databases (e.g., observational and publication), researcher interactions (e.g., conferences and discussion boards), and educational materials. The result is a rich and searchable environ -ment to provide users a more productive experience for research and collaboration. In this paper, we provide the conceptual model for LIKED. We expand to detail how LIKED will serve to connect the various knowledge and research components available internation-ally together in an uniformly searchable manner. Finally, this work outlines various contributions the community can make towards this goal. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of COSPAR. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).