Cyberinfrastructure for Collaborative Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

现在，在科学前沿的研究需要全球协作、TB级的数据基础设施以及用于实现研究自动化和协作的软件工具。在国家科学基金会的资助下，贝尔滕塔尔博士和他的同事们将开发一个社会信息学数据(SID)网格。SID网格将使研究人员能够收集多个时间尺度上的实时多模式行为。由网格基础设施支持的分布式数据仓库的开发将鼓励研究人员解决远远超出任何单个实验室的能力的研究问题，例如我们如何通过包括语音、手势、韵律、姿势、面部表情等在内的多模式交流渠道构建我们的认知、社会和文化世界，或者社会行为的实时展开如何成为其神经生物学基础、发展状况、背景和文化规范的函数。SID网格的创建将为支持社会科学和行为科学中的协作研究提供所需的基础设施。这一基础设施将鼓励数据共享，并加快制定收集和编码生理和行为数据的标准。外联和传播将包括创建一个网站，提供使用SID网格的教程，组织关于基础设施使用的讲习班，并邀请研究人员在SuperLab进行多模式研究。这些数据库和软件工具的可获得性有望帮助引入下一代行为科学和科学家。

Research at the frontiers of science now requires global collaborations, terabyte data infrastructures, and software tools for automating research and enabling collaboration. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Bertenthal and his colleagues will develop a Social Informatics Data (SID) Grid. The SID Grid will enable researchers to collect real-time multimodal behavior at multiple time scales. The development of a distributed data warehouse supported by a grid infrastructure will embolden researchers to address research questions that far exceed the capacities of any individual lab, such as how we construct our cognitive, social and cultural worlds through multimodal channels of communication, including speech, gesture, prosody, posture, facial expression, etc. or how the unfolding in real-time of social behaviors is a function of their neurobiological underpinnings, developmental status, context and cultural norms. The creation of the SID Grid will provide the needed infrastructure for supporting collaborative research in the social and behavioral sciences. This infrastructure will encourage data sharing and accelerate the development of standards for collecting and coding physiological and behavioral data. Outreach and dissemination will consist of creating a website with tutorials for using the SID Grid, organizing workshops on use of the infrastructure, and soliciting researchers to conduct multimodal research in the SuperLab. The availability of these databases and software tools promises to help usher in the next generation of behavioral sciences and scientists.