VOSS: Virtual Standards Development Organizations: Enhancing Interoperability in Data-Intensive Science

大规模数据科学协作的成功取决于制定高质量、有用和可用的标准，以实现数据共享和重用。虽然跨学科合作不断增加，但数据和元数据的社区标准开发过程仍然是网络基础设施发展的瓶颈。以社区为基础的标准开发虚拟组织对于网络基础设施的成功至关重要，但对这些组织中数据标准的协商和实例化知之甚少。该项目将对基因组科学领域的开放参与社区标准组织进行为期三年的定性研究，以调查他们如何管理不同利益相关者的利益，以制定和部署社区标准。要回答对国家决策和科学进步至关重要的复杂研究问题，大规模的科学合作是必要的。在建设利用先进计算资源支持协作科学的网络基础设施方面进行了大量投资。这些网络基础设施的成功取决于制定高质量、有用和可用的标准，以实现数据共享和重用。该项目将为基因组学领域和其他具有类似数据共享需求的领域提供有效的标准制定过程指导。

The success of large-scale data-enabled scientific collaboration depends upon the development of high-quality, useful and usable standards to enable data sharing and reuse. While interdisciplinary collaborations continue to proliferate, the process of community standards development for data and metadata remains a bottleneck in cyberinfrastructure development. Community-based standards development virtual organizations are vitally important for the success of cyberinfrastructure, but little is known about the negotiations and instantiations of data standards within these organizations. This project will undertake a three-year qualitative study of open-participation community standards organizations in the genomic sciences to investigate how they manage diverse stakeholder interests to develop and deploy community standards. Large-scale scientific collaboration is necessary to answer complex research questions that are crucial for national policy-making and scientific progress. Significant investments are being made in building cyberinfrastructure that uses advanced computational resources to support collaborative science. The success of these cyberinfrastructures depends upon the development of high-quality, useful and usable standards to enable data sharing and reuse. This project will provide guidance in effective standards development processes to the genomics field and others with similar data sharing requirements.