KDI: Collaborative Knowledge Networking Environments for Team Science: Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory (SPARC)

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Collaborative Knowledge-Work Environments for TeamScience: The Space Physics and Aeronomy ResearchCollaboratory (SPARC) ProjectProject SummaryInterdisciplinary research experience in the collaboratory concept will be used to design, deploy, evaluate, and enlarge the fundamental understanding of collaborative knowledge-work environments. They will focus and inform this research by the creation of a Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory (SPARC) of revolutionary scope and power. The work is based on the Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory (UARC), in which over a six-year period a team of space physicists, computer scientists, and behavioral scientists evolved a suite of collaboration capabilities to provide rich, real-time access to a wide variety of data and modeling resources. The proposed work on SPARC will significantly extend the power of technology-mediated, distributed knowledge-networking systems. It combines experimental data streams and their interpretation, theoretical models, real-time campaign support, capture mid replay of collaborative sessions, post-hoc analysis workshops, access to archival data and digital libraries, and educational/outreach modules. An important outcome of SPARC for the science community will be a functional and operational space weather predictive capability. Equally important, SPARC will also be a major testbed to further understand and design collaborative knowledge work systems from a merger of social and technical principles.The SPARC project aims to produce a next generation collaboratory that will support a fill range of scientific activities