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

该INSPIRE奖的部分资金来自地球科学局和网络基础设施办公室，这是他们对EarthCube的承诺的一部分，地球立方体是美国国家科学基金会的一项重要的新网络基础设施活动，旨在为21世纪创建一个大胆、集成的地球科学数据和知识管理系统，以及社会、行为和经济科学局的三个项目(科学与创新政策科学、科学、技术和社会以及组织科学)。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基础结构，创建一个可互操作的数据系统和数据类型系统，服务于具有不同背景、需求和科学文化的广泛而不同的地球科学用户社区。这项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达成一致的新的和新兴的方式。这项研究具有变革性，因为它是第一个此类项目，在这类项目中，国家科学基金会这种规模的社区驱动的大型基础设施项目将社会科学和对社区/利益攸关方建设过程的分析纳入其项目结构的组成部分。它还在开发量化方法以衡量集体、社区和个人观念随时间的演变方面开辟了新的天地。在科技界之间建立信任和伙伴关系时，这种类型的理解至关重要，因为科技界很少互动，如果有的话。该项目涉及社会科学家、地球科学家以及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将用于帮助改进网络基础设施的设计和建设进程，并指导形成有效管理社区参与和实施最终系统所需的组织和治理结构。这项研究使用了新的可视化工具，并将开发创新的量化方法来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，并有助于了解和加强社区在设计过程中的参与，从而确保所创造的一切充分满足最终用户的需求。这项工作的更广泛影响包括培训博士生，加快NSF发起的大型科学和技术项目的进展，以及产生将为政策、规划和资源分配提供信息的洞察力。

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.