Visualizing Scientific Discovery Workshop, September 11-12, 2008

可视化科学发现研讨会Susan E.科曾斯，格鲁吉亚理工学院网络基础设施的进步使可视化工具的发展成为可能，为跟踪科学研究的影响提供了有趣的可能性。这些可能性包括从基础研究发现到专利和创新的路径，到科学学科结构的变化，从研究社交网络的重要性到科学创新的分散，再到比较国际科学表现，对NSF计划的潜在贡献是深远的。投资管理人员可以利用这些工具提供的信息，审查某一特定类型或水平的投资是否比另一类型或水平的投资更有利于实现特定的短期成果，利用这些信息调整或平衡其资金组合，并向外界提供关于特定投资价值的信息。此外，NSF的工作人员可以使用这些工具来描述跨领域计划的影响，例如网络基础设施和ITR。NSF的工作人员也可以通过绘制多学科合作的复杂结构图，并利用这些信息来识别科学上分散的社区成员以及科学和创新领域的新兴领导者来扩大规模。然而，在实现这一愿景之前，可视化工具的鲁棒性、有效性和可用性仍然存在许多问题。该研讨会的目的是让来自广泛学科的研究人员来研究开放的问题。研讨会将探讨社会科学中一个令人兴奋的领域的研究前沿，调查当前的艺术状态，并确定进一步发展的关键问题。该研讨会将提高这一研究领域成果的可用性。它使博士后学者和博士生充分参与工作，从而有助于科学政策学的人力资源开发。

Visualizing Scientific Discovery WorkshopSusan E. Cozzens, Georgia Institute of TechnologyThe development of visualization tools made possible by advances in cyber-infrastructure offer intriguing possibilities for tracking the impact ofinvestments in science. These possibilities range from tracing the path from basic research discoveries to patents and innovation, to the changing structure of scientific disciplines, and from examining the importance of social networks to the dispersion of scientific innovations to comparators of international performance in science.The potential contribution to NSF programs is far-reaching. Programofficers could use information from such tools to examine whether one particular type or level of investment has been better than another for achieving a particular short-term outcome, use the information to restructure or balance their funding portfolio, as well as to provide information to outside queries about the value of particular investments. In addition, NSF staff could use the tools to describe the impact of cross-cutting initiatives, such as cyber-infrastructure and ITR. NSF staff might also be able to expand by mapping the complex structures of multidisciplinary collaborations and using the information to identify members of scientifically dispersed communities as well as emerging leaders in science and innovation.However, before such a vision is achieved, many questions remain aboutthe robustness, validity and usability of the visualization tools. The workshop is designed to bring researchers from a broad range of disciplines to examine the open questions.Intellectual Merit. The workshop will explore the research frontier of anexciting area of the social sciences, surveying the current state of the art and identifying key issues for further development.Broader impacts. The workshop will increase the usability of results fromthis research area. It involves a postdoctoral scholar and doctoral student fully in the work, and thus contributes to human resource development in the science of science policy.