CI-KNOW Cyberinfrastructure Tools to Enable Knowledge Network Discovery, Diagnosis and Design

NSF关于网络基础设施的蓝丝带小组报告描述了先进的计算机、网络和数据技术为科学和工程研究带来革命性变化的潜力。然而，实现这一潜力将需要调动大量资源，每年可能高达10亿美元。虽然显然意义重大，但与通过使用传播和信息实现的预期突破和结果相比，传播与传播仍然相对模糊。这一建议的前提是这样一种信念，即提高对网络基础设施的了解和可见度取决于有能力创建工具，使人们能够以引人注目的、互动的、数据驱动的方式可视化和探索传播与信息支持的科学和政策网络。这项建议旨在开发一套CI-SCOPE工具，以帮助发现、诊断和设计网络基础设施研究人员社区内的社会和知识网络。这一CI-Scope项目将开发一套工具，CI-Scope，用于探索与CI的开发和部署相关的网络，以提供有关CI如何实现协作以及如何改进CI协作的重要见解。该项目将侧重于由国家科学基金会资助的一系列正在进行的传播与信息项目和研讨会。拟议的工作将确定适当的数据、技术、流程和工具，以创建和探索与传播与信息社区相关的知识网络。首先，CI-Scope将为CI研究人员和开发人员的社区提供一套前所未有的视觉分析发现工具，以识别、谁知道谁、谁知道谁知道谁、谁知道什么？然后呢？谁知道谁知道会发生什么。其次，诊断工具将帮助管理CI开发和部署投资组合的NSF和其他资助机构的决策者分析和可视化CI知识网络中的优势、差距和潜在增长机会。第三，诊断将为制定社会技术激励措施提供基础，以便在传播与信息研究人员社区内设计更有效的虚拟组织。

The NSF blue ribbon panel report on cyberinfrastructure describes the potential of advanced computer, network and data technologies to revolutionize scientific and engineering research. Realization of this potential, however, will require mobilization of tremendous resources, perhaps as much as $1 billion per year. While clearly significant, CI remains relatively obscure compared to the expected breakthroughs and results that will be enabled through the use of CI. This proposal is premised on the belief that increasing the understanding and visibility of cyberinfrastructure lies in the ability to create tools that enable compelling, interactive, data-driven visualization and exploration of CI-enabled science and policy networks. This proposal seeks to develop, CI-Scope, a suite of tools to help discovery, diagnosis, and design of social and knowledge networks within the community of cyberinfrastructure researchers. This CI-Scope project will develop a suite of tools, CI-Scope, for exploring networks associated with the development and deployment of CI in ways that provide important insights regarding how CI enables collaboration and how CI collaborations might be improved. The project will focus on the portfolio of ongoing NSF-funded CI projects and workshops. The proposed work will identify the appropriate data, techniques, processes, and tools for creating and exploring the knowledge networks associated with the CI community. First, CI-Scope will provide the community of CI researchers and developers an unprecedented suite of visual-analytic Discovery tools to identify, who knows who, who knows who knows who, who knows what? and ?who knows who knows what. Second, the Diagnostic tools will help decision makers, at NSF and other funding agencies who are managing the portfolio of investments for CI development and deployment, analyze and visualize the strength, gaps, and potential growth opportunities within the CI knowledge networks. Third, the diagnostics will provide the basis for developing socio-technical incentives to Design more effective virtual organizations within the community of CI researchers.