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

该项目旨在让国家科学基金会数学和物理科学局所代表的科学分支--天文学、化学、材料研究、数学和物理--的利益攸关方积极参与对话，目的是使国家科学基金会赞助的科学研究成果公之于众。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，讨论数据在科学和教育领域重复使用的可能性(哪些数据有用，哪些数据应该保留？)，公开提供数据所需的网络基础设施(需要什么数据访问方法，需要什么样的伴随元数据才能轻松访问，以及必要的档案存储的参数是什么？)以及公共接入的共性方面(现有基础设施中有多少可以服务于多个学科？)这些问题的答案预计取决于学科，但促进社区之间的对话是必要的，以确定满足社区需求的最佳做法和具有成本效益的解决方案，并帮助铺平道路，使公众能够广泛获取科学数据。广泛提供研究数据向公民科学家和其他研究人员开放科学事业，并增强发现的潜力。认识到从数字时代向大数据时代的过渡也提供了公开来自各种科学调查的研究数据所需的技术手段，该项目支持的讲习班将努力建立一个框架，通过这个框架可以实现公众获取。通过将不同学科的项目和基础设施结合起来，预计将产生规模经济。因此，这项努力将通过强调档案系统设计中的数据集和元数据互操作性，为跨学科研究确定新的机会。

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.