EAGER: Using the Web for Science and Society

EAGER：利用网络促进科学和社会发展

• 批准号: 0957718
• 负责人: James Hendler
• 金额: $ 29.86万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0957718&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Using; Web; Science; Society

In the past decade, the Web has become one of the most used and transformative social applications in the history of human communications. Our everyday use of the Web depends on fundamental developments in computer science that took place long before the Web was invented. Today?s search engines, for example, are based on developments in information retrieval with a legacy going back to the 1960s. The innovations of the 1990s provided the crucial algorithms underlying the modern search engines that are so fundamental to Web use. Many interesting aspects of Web use, such as social networking, tagging, data integration, information retrieval, and Web ontologies, have emerged as ?social computing? at some of the top information schools and computing programs. However, in too many cases the Web is studied exclusively as a technical or social artifact rather than as an object of study in its own right, whose architectural properties actively shape the human interactions it supports. The results of this project will define interdisciplinary methodologies that can be used to help develop the critical science, technology, and eventually curriculum at the heart of the emerging interdisciplinary field of Web Science. We will focus on establishing the methods of understanding and developing systems that allow large numbers of users to work together to form communities to solve scientific and social problems.

在过去的十年中，Web已经成为人类通信历史上使用最多、最具变革意义的社会应用程序之一。我们对网络的日常使用依赖于计算机科学的基本发展，而这些发展早在网络发明之前就已经发生了。今天好吗?例如，美国的搜索引擎是基于信息检索技术的发展，其历史可以追溯到20世纪60年代。20世纪90年代的创新为现代搜索引擎提供了至关重要的算法，这些算法是网络使用的基础。Web使用的许多有趣的方面，如社交网络、标记、数据集成、信息检索和Web本体，已经作为？社会计算?在一些顶尖的信息学院和计算机专业。然而，在太多的情况下，Web只是作为技术或社会工件来研究，而不是作为其本身的研究对象，其架构属性积极地塑造了它所支持的人类交互。这个项目的结果将定义跨学科的方法，可以用来帮助发展关键的科学，技术，并最终在新兴的跨学科领域的网络科学的核心课程。着力建立认识方法和制度体系，使广大用户共同形成解决科学问题和社会问题的社区。