INSPIRE: ENABLING TRANSFORMATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, GEOSCIENCES, AND CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH STAKEHOLDER ALIGNMENT AND NEW INSTITUTIONAL THEORY, METHODS, AND ANALYTICS

该INSPIRE奖部分由地球科学理事会和网络基础设施办公室资助，作为他们对EarthCube承诺的一部分，EarthCube是NSF一项重大的新网络基础设施活动，旨在为21世纪创建一个大胆的，综合的地球科学数据和知识管理系统，并由社会，行为和经济科学理事会的三个项目资助（科学与创新政策科学;科学，技术和社会;和组织科学）。这是一项变革性的跨学科研究，能够更有效地设计和实施社区驱动的网络结构，这将创建一个可互操作的数据系统和数据类型系统，为具有不同背景，需求和科学文化的广泛而不同的地球科学用户社区提供服务。 该研究还将开创新的社会和行为科学理论，方法和分析，解决利益相关者围绕大型，复杂的基础设施项目进行协调的新的和新兴的方式。 这项研究是变革性的，因为它是一个首个此类项目，其中一个主要的NSF社区驱动的基础设施项目，作为其项目结构的一个组成部分，社会科学和社区/利益相关者建设过程的分析。 它还开辟了新的领域，发展定量方法来衡量集体社区和个人的看法随着时间的推移的演变。这种理解对于在很少互动的科学和技术界之间建立信任和伙伴关系至关重要。 该项目涉及社会科学家、地球科学家、网络基础设施和计算机科学专家的密切互动，利益攸关方研究的结果被用于帮助改进网络基础设施的设计和建设过程，并指导有效管理社区参与和最终系统实施所需的组织和治理结构的形成。这项研究采用了新颖的可视化工具，并将开发创新的定量手段，评估利益相关者的协议及其随时间的演变。对数据和结果的分析将有助于确定基础设施投资的最有效目标，并有助于了解和改善社区对设计过程的参与，从而确保所创造的一切都能充分满足最终用户的需求。这项工作的更广泛影响包括博士生的培训，加速NSF发起的大型科学和技术项目的进展，并产生将为政策，规划和资源分配提供信息的见解。

This INSPIRE award is partially funded by the Directorate of Geosciences and Office of Cyberinfrastructure as part of their committment to EarthCube, a major new NSF cyberinfrastructure activity to create a bold, integrated, geoscience data and knowledge management system for the 21st Century, and by three Programs in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (Science of Science and Innovation Policy; Science, Technology, and Society; and Science of Organizations). This is transformative, interdisciplinary, research that enables more effective design and implementation of community-driven cyberinsrastructure that will create an interoperable system of data systems and data types that serve a broad and disparate community of geoscience users with different backgrounds, needs, and scientific cultures. The research will also pioneer new social and behavioral science theory, methods, and analytics that address new and emerging ways that stakeholders are aligned around big, complex, infrastructure projects. The research is transformative in nature because it is a first-of-its kind project in which a major NSF community-driven infrastructure project of this magnitude has incorporated, as an integral part of its project structure, social science and an analysis of the community/stakeholder building process. It also breaks new ground in the developing of quantitative approaches to measure the evolution of collective community and individual perceptions over time. This type of understanding is critical when building trust and partnerships between science and technology communities that rarely, if ever, interact. The project involves the intimate interaction of social scientists, geoscientists, and cyberinfrastructure and computer science experts, with the results of the stakeholder studies being used to help improve the cyberinfrastructure design-and-build process, as well as guide the formation of the organizational and governance structures that will be needed to effectively manage community engagement and implementation of the final system. This research employs novel visualization tools and will develop innovative quantitative means for assessing stakeholder agreement and its evolution over time. The analysis of data and results will assist in identifing the most effective targets for infrastructure investment and understanding and improving community engagement in the design process, thus ensuring that whatever is created adequately serves end-user needs. Broader impacts of the work include the training of PhD students, accelerating progress in large NSF-initiated science and technology projects, and generating insights that will inform policy, planning, and resource allocation.