Collaborative Research: CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Enhancing Social Science Research Training with Collaborative Tagging

这是一项建议，旨在展示让学生成为社会科学网络基础设施的创造者和使用者的新方法。这种方法的核心是协作标签技术，该技术用于允许用户使用社会科学数据注册“标签”，然后在自己或他人注册的标签上搜索以定位对象。这项技术用于让学生研究人员访问和贡献社会科学数据的协同训释，从而提高他们对数据的知识和理解，建设他们与他人合作的能力，加快他们成为高素质研究人员的能力。在这个项目中，将使用参加密歇根大学安娜堡分校社会研究定量方法ICPSR暑期项目的不同学生群体。该项目团队将以自然出版集团的ConnoTea技术为基础，构建可标记版本的一般社会调查(GSS)，这是社会科学研究和教学中广泛使用的数据集。在2008年夏天，项目团队将与ICPSR暑期项目的学生和教职员工一起进行初步工作，以开发和评估标记概念。到2009年夏季，该项目将准备好进行全面的测试和评估，其中一个处理组和一个控制组将收到相同的指令，但使用不同配置的全球监测系统数据集，一个配置了标签系统，另一个则没有。对学生成绩的评估将决定项目的成功，推动调查结果的传播，并帮助规划未来的活动。

This is a proposal to demonstrate new ways to engage students as creators and users of social sciences cyberinfrastructure. At the core of this approach is collaborative tagging technology, which are used to allow users to register "tags" with social science data and then search on tags registered by themselves or others to locate objects. This technology is used to allow student researchers to access and contribute to a collaborative exegesis on social science data, thus improving their knowledge and understanding of data, building their capacity to work with others, and speeding up their ability to be high quality researchers. In this Project a diverse student population that attends the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor will be used. The project team will build upon Nature Publishing Groups' Connotea technology to construct a taggable version of the General Social Survey (GSS), a widely used dataset in social science research and teaching. In Summer 2008, the project team will conduct preliminary work with students and faculty in the ICPSR Summer Program to develop and evaluate the tagging concept. By summer 2009, the project will be ready for a full-scale test and evaluation, in which a treatment group and a control group will receive the same instruction but make use of differently configured GSS datasets, one configured with access to the tagging system, and one without. Evaluation of student outcomes will determine the program's success, drive dissemination of findings, and assist in planning future activities.