Workshop Series to Gauge Community Requirements for Public Access to Data from NSF-Funded Research

该项目旨在让以NSF数学和物理科学理事会为代表的科学分支——天文学、化学、材料研究、数学和物理学——的利益相关者参与到一个积极的对话中，旨在使NSF资助的科学研究成果公开。具有广泛专业知识的科学家将聚集在一起，参加一系列研讨会，讨论科学和教育重用数据的可能性（哪些数据有用，哪些数据应该保留？），公开数据所需的网络基础设施(需要哪种数据访问方法，需要哪种附带元数据以方便访问，必要的档案存储的参数是什么？)以及公共访问的共性方面（现有的基础设施有多少可以服务于多个学科？）这些问题的答案预计将取决于学科，但促进社区之间的对话是必要的，以便确定最佳做法和具有成本效益的解决方案，以满足社区需求，并帮助为公众广泛获取科学数据的世界铺平道路。使研究数据广泛可用，使科学事业向公民科学家和其他研究人员开放，并增强发现的潜力。认识到从数字时代到大数据时代的过渡也提供了公开各种科学调查的研究数据所需的技术手段，本项目支持的研讨会将致力于建立一个框架，通过该框架可以实现公众访问。通过将不同学科的项目和基础设施结合起来，预计将实现规模经济。因此，这项工作将通过强调档案系统设计中的数据集和元数据互操作性来确定跨学科研究的新机会。

This project seeks to engage stakeholders from the branches of science represented by the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate at the NSF -- astronomy, chemistry, materials research, mathematics and physics -- into an active dialogue aimed at making publicly available the results of scientific research sponsored by NSF. Scientists with a broad variety of expertise will come together for a series of workshops to discuss the possibilities of scientific and educational reuse of data (which data is useful and what should be preserved?), the cyberinfrastructure needs for making data publicly available (what data access methods are required, what sort of accompanying metadata will be needed for easy access, and what are the parameters of the necessary archival storage?) and the commonality aspects of public access (how much of the existing infrastructure can serve multiple disciplines?) The answers to these questions are expected to be discipline dependent, but promoting a dialogue between communities is necessary in order to identify best practices and cost-effective solutions to serve the community needs and to help pave the way to a world with broad public access to scientific data.Making research data broadly available opens the scientific enterprise to citizen scientists and other researchers and enhances the potential for discovery. Recognizing that the transition from the Digital Age to the Big Data Age provides also the technical means needed to make public the research data from a wide variety of scientific inquiries, the workshops supported by this project will work towards a framework by which public access can be accomplished. Economies of scale are expected by combining projects and infrastructure across various disciplines. As such, this effort will identify new opportunities for interdisciplinary research by emphasizing the dataset and metadata interoperability in the design of archival systems.