Professional Dev Fellowship: Using informatics to advance history and philosophy of science research

该项目的目的是同时满足在信息学方面获得更多专业经验的需要，以便推进科学史和科学哲学(HPS)的研究，并在这两个领域的交叉点开辟新的研究和调查领域。随着越来越多的文本、图像和档案资源以数字形式提供，科学史和科学哲学，以及更广泛的人文学科，现在正在经历一场类似于20世纪90年代和21世纪头十年的生命科学的变革。虽然这些趋势是不可避免的，但这些领域的研究人员没有做好充分准备，无法利用新的机遇，或塑造新兴新网络基础设施相关部分的未来发展。这位博士后在生物学和HPS方面的培训，以及他在NSF资助的胚胎项目中的工作，让他对即将到来的HPS数字时代的可能性和挑战有了独特的视角。有了奖学金，他将在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的海洋生物实验室以及柏林的马克斯·普朗克科学史研究所与计算机科学家和信息学家一起接受培训。他将获得与开发这一网络基础设施有关的新技能，然后将在胚胎项目的背景下进行测试和实施。这一专业培训奖学金将不仅仅支持HPS的研究，因为所开发的工具和技术将对整个数字人文学科做出重大贡献。向众多不同的用户群体展示与HPS相关的结果和信息也具有巨大的教育和推广可能性，这依赖于实质性发展的网络基础设施，以向学生、政策制定者、法官和感兴趣的公众提供这些学术内容。

The project is designed to address simultaneously the need of acquiring additional professional experience in informatics in order to advance research in the history and philosophy of science (HPS) and to open up new areas of research and investigation at the intersection of these two areas. As more and more texts, images, and archival sources become available in digital form, history and philosophy of science, and the humanities more generally, are now experiencing a transformation similar to the life sciences during the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century. While these trends are inevitable, researchers in these areas are ill-prepared to take advantage of the new opportunities or to shape the future development of relevant parts of the emerging new cyberinfrastructure. The post-doc's training in biology and HPS, as well as his work on the NSF funded Embryo Project, has given him a unique perspective on the possibilities and challenges of the upcoming digital era in HPS. With the fellowship he will spend time training with computer scientists and informaticians at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, as well as the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He will acquire new skills related to developing this cyberinfrastructure, which will then be tested and implemented in the context of the Embryo Project. This professional training fellowship will go beyond supporting research in HPS as the tools and techniques developed will contribute substantially to the digital humanities at large. Presenting HPS related results and information to a multitude of different user groups has enormous educational and outreach possibilities as well, and this depends on a substantially developed cyber-infrastructure to deliver this scholarly content to students, policy makers, judges, and the interested public.