INSPIRE: A Digital HPS Infrastructure for Understanding Biodiversity

这个INSPIRE奖的部分资金来自社会、行为和经济科学局社会科学和经济科学部的科学、技术和社会计划，以及生物科学局生物基础设施部的生物信息学进步计划。智力价值这将是科学和技术研究中的第一个大型计算项目。尽管该项目的重点是生物多样性以及科学的历史和哲学，但这种方法将远远超出这些领域。该项目将建立一个基于计算工具和数字资源的储存库和研究系统，并将开发教育和培训模块。其目标是超越分散在单独计算机上的分散的小集合，并将研究对象以及对这些对象的学术解释聚集在一起。这些材料将公开可用，以提高效率，并刺激新类型的研究和发现。该储存库将链接到现有的大型和广泛使用的数据库，如生物多样性遗产图书馆和生命百科全书。亚利桑那州立大学和海洋生物实验室的研究人员将合作，将科学的历史和哲学、信息学和生物多样性的历史和哲学相结合的强有力的综合方法结合在一起。它将改变在这些领域进行学术和培训的方式，并导致一种基于开放获取出版的新型科学史。储存库、工具和培训模块将广泛用于所有STEM学科的科学和技术研究的其他项目。潜在的更广泛的影响这个项目将产生学术成果、存储库、信息学工具和培训手册，供其他人定制和贡献他们自己的项目。将产生学术成果，供从专业学者到更广泛的公众的多个用户群体通过不同的网站获得。对于教育工作者和学生，该项目将与亚利桑那州立大学的Ask A生物学家项目、生命百科全书和生物多样性遗产图书馆以及其他现有数据库建立联系。本科生和研究生将接受撰写解释性文章的培训。信息学培训课程、手册和其他教育方法将使该系统和储存库广泛可用。

This INSPIRE award is partially funded by the Science, Technology, and Society Program in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences; and by the Advances in Biological Informatics Program in the Division of Biological Infrastructure in the Directorate for Biological Sciences.Intellectual MeritThis will be the first large scale computational project in Science and Technology Studies. Although the focus of this project is on Biodiversity and on History and Philosophy of science, the approach would extend well beyond these areas. The project will establish a repository and a research system based on computational tools and digital sources, and it will develop education and training modules. The goal is to move beyond separate small collections that reside on individual computers in dispersed places, and bring together the objects of study as well as scholarly interpretations of those objects. The materials are to be openly available for efficiency and also to stimulate new kinds of research and discovery. The repository will link to existing large and widely-used databases such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Encyclopedia of Life. Researchers at Arizona State University and the Marine Biological Laboratory will collaborate in bringing together the robustly integrative methods that combine history and philosophy of science, informatics, and biology of biodiversity. It will transform the way that scholarship and training is done in the areas, and lead to a new kind of scientific history based in open access publishing. The repository, tools, and training modules will be widely available for other projects in Science and Technology Studies for the full range of STEM disciplines. Potential Broader ImpactsThis project will produce scholarly results, a repository, informatics tools, and training manuals for others to customize and contribute their own projects. Scholarly results are to be produces that would be available through different websites for multiple user groups, from specialized scholars to the wider public. For educators and students, the project will connect with Arizona State University's Ask A Biologist project, as well as to Encyclopedia of Life and the Biodiversity Heritage Library, and to other existing databases. Undergraduate and Graduate students will be trained to contribute interpretive articles. Informatics Training courses, manuals, and other educational approaches will make the system and repository available widely.