Standard Research: Establishing an STS Informatics Infrastructure and Training Program

该奖项为亚利桑那州立大学的研究人员和马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔海洋生物实验室（MBL）的信息学团队之间雄心勃勃的合作信息学项目的第一部分提供支持。整个项目包括三个部分，并将导致信息学基础设施和培训，将提供给整个STS（科学、技术和社会）社区。该奖项提供种子资金，将用于支持项目的第一部分，这将在下一节中描述。在第二部分，该团队将建立一个集中的存储库，并调整和开发信息学工具，使历史项目能够开发新的学术数据和知识。存储库将把MBL历史项目集成到一个单一的共享资源中，该资源从包含已经驻留在MBL中的其他项目的存储库中增长。在第三部分，该团队将开发一个研究系统，允许任何STS研究人员将他们的材料添加到存储库中（所有权和知识产权被仔细标记和保护），然后利用参与一个共享系统的优势，每个研究人员都可以访问所有系统，并且能够提出新的研究问题并因此开发新的知识。为了促进这些方法，该小组还将开发STS信息学的教育基础设施。知识精英学者将在MBL历史项目中开发新的研究方法和发现，该项目汇集了MBL与生物学相关的现有材料，并提供科学，机构及其在社会中的地位的学术解释。120多年来，MBL一直是世界领先的生物研究和教育机构之一，对生命科学和社会产生了巨大的影响。该团队将围绕四个主题组建工作组：胚胎学、模式生物、生理学和生态系统。已经为每个工作组确定了一个团队负责人，并且每个工作组将召集一个小组来帮助确定将被收集并吸收到数据库中的材料。这些将与通过MyMBL收集的材料相结合，MyMBL是一个在线工具，该团队正在开发用于收集关于特定主题的活生生的数字视频叙述；MyMBL的开发将得到该奖项的支持。还将支持其他（技术性更强的）基础设施元素，例如开发用于维护从某些Fedora数据库导入的三元组信息的d-space存储库。所有这些元素都将为上面第一部分概述的整个项目提供“原则证明”。潜在的更广泛的影响项目第一部分的影响包括MBL历史项目的学术成果，以存储库和Web界面为中心，加上更多传统的学术解释性出版物和演示。将采取一些步骤来开发存储库和工具，最终使研究结果通过几个不同的网络接口提供给多个用户群体，从学者到更广泛的公众，包括教育工作者和学生；本科生和研究生将能够贡献文章，建立在成功的现有模式。最后，信息学小组将继续制定提供信息学培训课程和材料的计划，以使共享存储库尽可能对STS社区和更广泛地有用。

IntroductionThis award provides support for the first part of an ambitious collaborative informatics project between researchers at Arizona State University and the informatics team at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts (MBL). The full project involves three parts and will lead to informatics infrastructure and training that will be available to the entire STS (Science, Technology, and Society) community. This award provides seed money that will serve to support the first part of the project, which is described in the next section. In the second part, the team will build a centralized repository and adapt and develop informatics tools to allow the History Project to develop new kinds of scholarly data and knowledge. The repository will integrate the MBL History Project into a single, shared resource growing from the repository containing other projects that already reside at the MBL. In the third part, the team will develop a research system to allow any STS researchers to add their materials into the repository (with ownership and intellectual property carefully labeled and protected), then take advantage of participating in a shared system for which each researcher has access to all, and be able to ask new research questions and develop new knowledge as a result. To foster these approaches the team will also develop an education infrastructure for STS informatics. Intellectual MeritScholars will develop new research approaches and findings within the MBL History Project, which brings together existing materials related to biology at the MBL and provides scholarly interpretations of the science, the institution, and its place in society. The MBL has been one of the world's leading biological research and education institutions for over 120 years, and it has had tremendous impact on the life sciences and on society. The team will assemble working groups around four topics: Embryology, Model Organisms, Physiology, and Ecosystems. A team leader has been identified for each working group, and each of them will bring together a small group to help identify materials that will be collected and ingested into the database. These will be combined with materials gathered through MyMBL, an online tool that the team is developing for collecting digital video narratives from living subjects on specific topics; the development of MyMBL is to be supported by this award. Additional (more technical) infrastructure elements are also to be supported, such as the development of a d-space repository for maintaining information in triples that are to be imported from some Fedora databases. All of these elements will serve to provide a "proof of principle" for the full project outlined in the first section above.Potential Broader ImpactsThe impacts of the first part of the project include the scholarly results of the MBL History Project, centered on the repository and Web interface plus more traditional scholarly interpretive publications and presentations. Some steps will be taken to develop the repository and tools that will eventually make research results available through several different Web interfaces to multiple user groups, from scholars to the wider public, including educators and students; undergraduate and graduate students will be able to contribute articles, building on successful existing models. Finally, the informatics team will continue developing plans for offering Informatics Training courses and materials in order to make the shared repository as useful as possible for the STS community and more broadly.