HCC: Collaboration in the Development of Cyberinfrastructure

HCC：网络基础设施开发合作

• 批准号: 0712994
• 负责人: Charlotte Lee
• 金额: $ 44.99万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2010-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0712994&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Collaboration; Development; Cyberinfrastructure

Recent years have seen the rise of new forms of large-scale distributed scientific enterprises supported primarily through advanced technological infrastructures such as supercomputers and high speed networks. This "cyberinfrastructure" is attracting significant investment from major funding agencies and substantial participation from domain scientists. Although its primary aims are to transform and accelerate scientific and engineering practice, relatively little research has focused on systematically studying the actual practices of cyberinfrastructure development and use or on examining the transformations that it is created to engender.This project will make empirical and conceptual contributions to ongoing research in areas such as computer supported cooperative work, science and technology studies, and the study of cyberinfrastructure. Empirically, it will detail collaboration in cyberinfrastructure development, especially in relation to local concerns. Conceptually this project builds on the author?s previous research on collaboration in cyberinfrastructure in order to create a framework for understanding: 1) the incremental alignment and realignment of people, processes, and tools; 2) and how these alignments play out in: collaboration between distributed institutions; collaboration between disciplines; collaboration between the project itself and the scientific community; and collaboration within and between work groups.Given that cyberinfrastructure is comprised not only of advanced computational technologies, but also of scientists and engineers, who are both developers and end users, this study will: - Investigate existing scientific and engineering practices;- Investigate how scientific and engineering practices are collaboratively transformed;- Identify patterns of collaboration (e.g., social networks, communication and management strategies) and relate those patterns to organizational and scientific outcomes.Ethnographic methods will be used including participant-observation and semi-structured interviews. Qualitative social science methods are useful for understanding practice and how work processes change and develop over time. A nascent metagenomic cyberinfrastructure project will serve as the field site.Broader Impacts:By contributing to a more sophisticated understanding of how cyberinfrastructure development is dependent on both technical and social transformation, this research will stimulate and support the future development of such efforts. To further enhance cyberinfrastructure, collaborations amongst institutions conducting work on social aspects of cyberinfrastructure will be established to more efficiently define common concerns. To make innovations more broadly useful, research will be presented at multi- and interdisciplinary conferences and published in formats that will be useful to policy-makers.

近年来，主要通过超级计算机和高速网络等先进技术基础设施支持的新形式的大型分布式科学企业兴起。这种“网络基础设施”正在吸引主要资助机构的大量投资和领域科学家的大量参与。尽管其主要目标是改变和加速科学和工程实践，但相对较少的研究集中在系统地研究网络基础设施开发和使用的实际实践或研究其创建的目的。该项目将为计算机支持的合作工作、科学和技术研究、和网络基础设施的研究。从经验上讲，它将详细介绍网络基础设施发展方面的合作，特别是与当地关切问题有关的合作。从概念上讲，这个项目建立在作者？为了创建一个框架，以理解：1）人员，流程和工具的增量调整和重新调整; 2）以及这些调整如何在分布式机构之间的合作中发挥作用;学科之间的合作;项目本身与科学界之间的合作;鉴于网络基础设施不仅包括先进的计算技术，而且还包括既是开发人员又是最终用户的科学家和工程师，这项研究将：- 调查现有的科学和工程实践;-调查科学和工程实践是如何协作转变的;-确定协作模式（例如，社交网络、沟通和管理策略），并将这些模式与组织和科学成果联系起来。定性社会科学方法有助于理解实践以及工作流程如何随着时间的推移而变化和发展。更广泛的影响：通过促进对网络基础设施的发展如何依赖于技术和社会转型的更深入的理解，这项研究将刺激和支持这种努力的未来发展。为了进一步加强网络基础设施，将在从事网络基础设施社会方面工作的机构之间建立合作，以更有效地确定共同关注的问题。为了使创新更广泛地发挥作用，将在多学科和跨学科会议上介绍研究成果，并以对决策者有用的形式发表。