Build It, But Will They Come? A Geoscience Cyberinfrastructure Baseline Analysis
Build It, But Will They Come? A Geoscience Cyberinfrastructure Baseline Analysis
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建造它，但他们会来吗？
作者：
J. Cutcher;K. Baker;N. Berente;Dorothy R Carter;Leslie A. DeChurch;Courtney Flint;Gabriel Gershenfeld;Mike Haberman;J. King;Christine R. Kirkpatrick;E. Knight;B. Lawrence;Spenser Lewis;W. Lenhardt;Pablo Lopez;M. Mayernik;Charles McElroy;B. Mittleman;Victor Nichol;M. Nolan;N. Shin;Cheryl A. Thompson;Susan J. Winter;I. Zaslavsky
将地球理解为一个系统需要整合来自多个领域的多种形式的数据。旨在实现地球科学开放数据共享的网络基础设施的建设者和资助者面临着一个关键的失败模式：如果地球科学家不使用网络基础设施来共享、发现和重用数据，那会怎么样？在这项研究中，我们报告了参与NSF EarthCube计划的基线评估，这是一项针对地球科学的开放式网络基础设施。我们发现，科学家认为需要跨学科的参与，并参与有组织或机构的支持。然而，我们也发现，在一开始，网络和地球科学社区之间的参与可能是不平衡的，前者比后者表现出更大的兴趣。这项分析强调了审查领域和学科作为支持科学的网络基础设施投资的利益攸关方的重要性。
Understanding the earth as a system requires integrating many forms of data from multiple fields. Builders and funders of the cyberinfrastructure designed to enable open data sharing in the geosciences risk a key failure mode: What if geoscientists do not use the cyberinfrastructure to share, discover and reuse data? In this study, we report a baseline assessment of engagement with the NSF EarthCube initiative, an open cyberinfrastructure effort for the geosciences. We find scientists perceive the need for cross-disciplinary engagement and engage where there is organizational or institutional support. However, we also find a possibly imbalanced involvement between cyber and geoscience communities at the outset, with the former showing more interest than the latter. This analysis highlights the importance of examining fields and disciplines as stakeholders to investments in the cyberinfrastructure supporting science.