SCI: Expanding Cyber-Communities: A Workshop on Developing New Models for the Natural, Social, and Human Sciences; April 2006; Irvine, CA

本次研讨会将汇集来自十多个机构的研究人员，进行一次密集会议，对过去几年通过名为HASTAC（人文、艺术、科学和技术高级合作实验室）的多机构、多学科联盟开发的网络基础设施稳健模型进行评估、评估和制定战略。该联盟是由来自十多个机构的主要研究人员自愿组成的，他们自2003年初以来一直在共同开发软件、硬件和网络基础设施系统。拟议的研讨会将帮助实现HASTAC成员之前六次会议的好处，评估他们过去合作的产品，汇集现有的开源软件、搜索引擎和广泛公众使用的应用程序的“人文科学工具箱”，并为未来的合作制定路线图，包括优先事项。参与者代表了非常广泛的学科：社会和行为科学家，工程师，计算机科学家，他们都有与网络基础设施工作的经验。本次研讨会利用了所有学科提供的各种方法，从社会结构、个人关系、伦理和公平问题、历史先例、跨学科互动和合作研究模式（调解和面对面）等方面分析网络基础设施。该讲习班将为期两天，最有可能在2006年4月举行。组委会将指导研讨会的规划和执行。这项活动建立在现有努力的基础上，同时鼓励扩大，特别是通过扩大代表性不足群体的参与。讲习班的结果将被记录下来并公布在HASTAC网站以及联机期刊《针》上。通过定义一个优先级的路线图，研讨会将为更广泛的工作提供支持：信息年。这项为期一年的活动旨在模拟、演示和实施网络基础设施，并将新的软件、硬件和中间件投入流通，以支持人文、艺术和社会科学向一系列可用的信息和通信技术的转变。

This workshop will bring together researchers from over a dozen institutions for an intensive meeting to take stock of, assess, and strategize about the robust models for cyberinfrastructure that have been developed over the past few years through a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary consortium called HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). The consortium is a voluntary assemblage of leading researchers from over a dozen institutions who have been co-developing software, hardware, and cyberinfrastructure systems since early 2003. The proposed workshop will help to realize the benefits of six prior meetings of HASTAC members by assessing the products of their past collaborations, assembling a "Human Sciences Toolbox" of existing open source software, search engines and applications for broad public use, and creating a roadmap for future collaborations including priorities. The participants represent a very wide variety of disciplines: social and behavioral scientists, engineers, computer scientists, all of who have experience working with cyberinfrastructure. The workshop exploits the variety of methods offered from all disciplines to analyze cyberinfrastrucutre in terms of the social structures, individual relationships, ethical and equity issues, historical precedents, interdisciplinary interactions, and collaborative models of research (both mediated and face-to-face). The workshop will take place over a two-day period, most likely in April 2006. An organizing committee will guide the planning and execution of the workshop. This activity builds on an existing effort, while encouraging expansion, particularly through expanded participation of underrepresented groups. The results of the workshop will be documented and posted on the HASTAC website as well as in the on-line journal Needle. By defining a prioritized roadmap, the workshop will feed into a much broader effort: Information Year. This yearlong activity aims to model, demonstrate, and implement cyberinfrastructure and to put into circulation new software, hardware, and middleware to support a shift in the Humanities, Art, and Social Sciences toward the array of information and communications technologies available.