Collaborative Research: The Science Gateway Institute (SGW-I) for the Democratization and Acceleration of Science

随着当今科学日益数字化，它为研究人员带来了令人兴奋的挑战和机遇。无论是从传感器传输数据，模拟龙卷风的形成，注释和共享标记的音频和视频数据，还是使用地理信息系统来预测疾病的传播，变革性科学的前沿是巨大的，并继续增长。许多科学家正在转向门户网站或科学网关，以使他们能够更有效地分析，共享和理解大量数据。科学网关的存在--以及这些可访问的网络界面背后的复杂网络基础设施（CI）工具和资源--可以显著提高面临最困难挑战的研究人员的生产力。最重要的是，科学网关可以使对网络基础设施的访问民主化，从而实现尖端科学。现在，最好的头脑可以解决当今最具挑战性的科学问题，无论他们的从属关系。科学网关开发人员面临着几个挑战。他们通常孤立地工作，即使开发在各个领域可能非常相似，他们连接本地，校园，国家，有时甚至是国际网络基础设施，他们需要基本的构建块，以便他们可以专注于更高级别的重大挑战功能。科学门户的可持续资金也很难获得，因为它们跨越研究和基础设施的世界。这个为期一年的规划奖将收集社区反馈，形成科学门户研究所的基础。该研究所将成为科学门户的孵化器，大大增加他们长期成功的机会。它将为开发人员提供一个交流想法、方法和软件的论坛。它将提供专门知识-在科学门户建设，在技术，使大挑战研究，在开放社区软件开发，在虚拟组织，在项目管理和科学门户的可持续性。它将提供劳动力发展，培训下一代在这个充满活力，跨学科和重要领域的职业生涯。

As science today grows increasingly digital, it poses exciting challenges and opportunities for researchers. Whether it is streaming data from sensors, simulating the formation of tornadoes, annotating and sharing tagged audio and video data, or using geographic information systems to anticipate the spread of disease, the frontiers of transformative science are enormous and continue to grow. Many scientists are turning to web portals or science gateways to allow them to analyze, share, and understand large volumes of data more effectively. The existence of science gateways - and the sophisticated cyberinfrastructure (CI) tools and resources behind these accessible web interfaces - can significantly improve the productivity of researchers facing the most difficult challenges. Most important, science gateways can democratize access to the cyberinfrastructure that enables cutting edge science. Now the best minds can tackle today¹s most challenging science problems, regardless of their affiliation.Science gateway developers face several challenges. They often work in isolation even though development can be quite similar across domain areas, they bridge local, campus, national and sometimes international cyberinfrastructure, they need foundational building blocks so they can focus on higher-level grand-challenge functionality. Sustainable funding for science gateways can also be difficult to secure as they span the worlds of research and infrastructure.This one-year planning award will gather community feedback, forming the foundation of a Science Gateway Institute. The institute will be an incubator of sorts for science gateways, vastly increasing their chances for long term success. It will provide a forum for developers to share ideas, approaches and software. It will provide expertise - in science gateway building, in technologies enabling grand challenge research, in open community software development, in virtual organizations, in project management and in science gateway sustainability. It will provide workforce development, training the next generation for careers in this dynamic, cross-disciplinary and important area.