CHS: Small: Governance of Scholarly Digital Infrastructures

该项目推进了学术数字基础设施治理的知识现状，比较了互操作性，互连，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，这些技术和实践共同作用，创造出跨越时间和空间的功能。这项研究的动机是大规模的数字项目的增长，旨在支持数字化，保存，访问和重用的信息工件。对信息的长期可持续计算资源的需求遍及社会的各个方面，包括政府，教育，医疗保健和科学研究。该项目是作为一个比较案例研究，以对比和比较数字基础设施的机构实践，它追求两个研究问题：什么是数字基础设施治理的共同和独特的方面？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、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的运作方式，做出选择，分配资源，谈判问题和提供服务。 这些决定既构成了科学实践、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框架，又受到这些因素的影响。第二个研究问题专门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。

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.