Documenting Multi-Institutional Collaborations, Phase II: A Case Study in Space Science and Geophysics

记录多机构合作，第二阶段：空间科学和地球物理学案例研究

• 批准号: 9024198
• 负责人: Joan Warnow
• 金额: $ 14万
• 依托单位: American Institute of Physics
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-15 至 1994-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9024198&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Documenting; Multi; Institutional; Collaborations; Phase

The process of large-scale collaborative research is not well understood by historians, sociologists and other scholars. Nor do scientists, research administrators and the public possess any of the systematic analysis of this centrally important activity. Under this grant, Ms. Warnow is continuing her study of the problems of documenting the history of large collaborations in physics and allied sciences. Currently their administrative and intellectual records are widely dispersed and often discarded. Until the documentation has been secured it will be impossible for scholars to study the collaborative research project. Under her prior grants, Ms. Warnow has studied the patterns of team formation, funding, communication, delegation of responsibility, and publication, as well as the creation and retention of records in the area of high energy physics. Under this grant, Ms. Warnow is trying to determine how far insights from high energy physics extend to other fields of science. Specifically, she is undertaking a two year study of space science and geophysics. She is directing a group of researchers who will (1) conduct a computerized statistical census of a large number of collaborations, (2) interview some 150-200 members of a selected sample of collaborations involving satellites, planetary spacecraft, oceanographic expeditions, and other system for data-gathering (drill holes and seismic networks and arrays), and (3) conduct detailed historical probes of a few especially important cases. The aim is to identify patterns of collaboration, define the documentation problems, field-test possible solutions to these problems, and recommend actions to facilitate future scholarly study. The PI and other AIP staff will be joined by archivists, historians, and sociologists; distinguished scientists, administrators, and other specialists are serving as advisors on the project.

大规模合作研究的进程不太顺利 被历史学家、社会学家和其他学者所理解。 科学家、研究管理人员和公众也不知道 拥有任何系统的分析， 重要活动。 在这笔赠款下，Warnow女士继续 她对记录大规模战争历史问题的研究 物理学和相关科学的合作。 目前，他们 行政和知识记录广泛分散， 经常被丢弃。 在文件安全之前， 学者们不可能研究合作研究 项目 在她之前的赠款下，Warnow女士研究了 团队组建、筹资、沟通、授权 责任，出版，以及创建和 保持高能物理领域的记录。 下 在这项资助中，Warnow女士试图确定 从高能物理延伸到其他科学领域。 具体来说，她正在进行为期两年的太空研究， 科学和物理学。 她正在指导一组研究人员 世卫组织将（1）对一个 大量的合作，（2）采访约150-200人 选定的涉及卫星的合作样本的成员， 行星航天器、海洋考察和其他系统 对于数据收集（钻孔和地震网络和阵列）， （3）对少数几个特别是 重要案件。 目的是确定合作模式， 确定文档问题，现场测试可能的解决方案 这些问题，并建议采取行动，以促进未来 学术研究 PI和其他AIP工作人员将加入 档案学家、历史学家和社会学家;杰出的科学家， 管理人员和其他专家担任顾问， 该项目