CHS: Small: Governance of Scholarly Digital Infrastructures

CHS：小型：学术数字基础设施的治理

• 批准号: 1527410
• 负责人: Steven Sawyer
• 金额: $ 49.45万
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1527410&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CHS; Small; Governance; Scholarly; Digital

This project advances the current state of knowledge regarding the governance of scholarly digital infrastructures, comparing interoperability, interconnection, capacity management, and systems management. Digital infrastructures are large-scale sociotechnical systems that rely on the Internet technologies, digital data, and social practices that work together to create functionality across time and space. This research is motivated by the growth of large-scale digital projects designed to support the digitization, preservation, access, and reuse of information artifacts. The need for long-term sustainable computational resources for information is ubiquitous across all aspects of society including government, education, healthcare, and scientific research. The project is developed as a comparative case study in order to contrast and compare the institutional practices of digital infrastructures, and it pursues two research questions: What are the common and unique aspects of digital infrastructure governance? How do digital infrastructures coordinate the interoperability, interconnection, capacity management and systems management of these digital technologies and practices? The first research question focuses attention on detailing the ways in which digital infrastructures operate, make choices, distribute resources, negotiate issues, and offer services. These decisions both frame and are shaped by the combination of scientific practices, the participant's interests, current technologies and their development trajectories, and the structure and form of data. The second research question focuses specifically on the relationships among the pertinent digital infrastructure characteristics, digital technologies, and governance. Identifying and articulating these patterns and structures is at the heart of this project.

该项目推进了关于学术数字基础设施治理的当前知识状态，比较了互操作性、互连性、容量管理和系统管理。数字基础设施是大规模的社会技术系统，它依赖于互联网技术、数字数据和社会实践，共同创造跨越时间和空间的功能。这项研究的动机是大规模数字项目的增长，这些项目旨在支持信息工件的数字化、保存、访问和重用。对长期可持续的信息计算资源的需求在社会的各个方面都很普遍，包括政府、教育、医疗保健和科学研究。该项目作为一个比较案例研究，旨在对比和比较数字基础设施的制度实践，并追求两个研究问题：数字基础设施治理的共同和独特之处是什么？数字基础设施如何协调这些数字技术和实践的互操作性、互连性、容量管理和系统管理？第一个研究问题侧重于详细说明数字基础设施运行、选择、分配资源、协商问题和提供服务的方式。这些决策既构成了科学实践、参与者的兴趣、当前技术及其发展轨迹以及数据的结构和形式的综合框架，又受到这些综合因素的影响。第二个研究问题特别关注相关数字基础设施特征、数字技术和治理之间的关系。识别和阐明这些模式和结构是这个项目的核心。