I-Corps: FloWorks - A Modern Infrastructure for Spatiotemporal Data Modeling and Analysis

这个创新团队项目的目标是探索作为生态预测网络社区的一部分而开发的软件工具的商业可行性。俄克拉荷马大学的IT信息学团队开发了一套灵活的模块化软件组件，用于数据编目、建模和分析/可视化。创新团的课程和相关资金将用于：i)快速探索面临数据管理和建模挑战的目标市场；ii)创建发展小型企业的可行战略；iii)将现有软件工具打包并增强为收费托管软件即服务(SaaS)产品，以满足明确的数据收集和建模需求。随着数据集的增长，向传统的非计算学科提供新的计算工具和范例变得必要。扩大应用这一工具包的商业机会将继续提高该工具的可用性和研究能力，同时扩大生态预报和相关科学的商业应用途径。拟议的活动是为现有的软件研究基础设施开发商业应用程序，将在几个领域产生更广泛的影响。它将极大地扩大这些研究软件工具的用户群体，使其有机会提高这些工具的可用性和稳健性。如果成功，这项活动将提高软件工具的商业可行性，从而增强该区域的研究竞争力。

This goal of this Innovation Corps project is to explore the commercial viability of software tools developed as part of the Cybercommons for Ecological Forecasting. The IT Informatics Team at The University of Oklahoma has developed a flexible suite of modular software components for data cataloging, modeling and analysis/visualization. The Innovation Corps curriculum and associated funding will be used to: i) rapidly explore target markets with data management and modeling challenges; ii) create an actionable strategy for developing a small business; iii) packaging and enhancing existing software tools as a fee-based hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, which can meet an expressed need for data collection and modeling. As data sets grow larger, it becomes necessary to present new computational tools and paradigms to traditionally non-computational disciplines. Expanding the commercial opportunities for applying this toolset will continue to advance the usability and research capabilities of the tools, while expanding avenues for commercial application of ecological forecasting and related science. The proposed activity, developing commercial applications for an existing software research infrastructure, will have broader impacts in several areas. It will provide a significant expansion of the user community for these research software tools, enabling the opportunity to enhance usability and robustness of the tools. If successful, this activity will improve the commercial viability of software tools, thus enhancing the research competitiveness of the region.