CHS: Small: Governance of Scholarly Digital Infrastructures

该项目通过比较互操作性、互连、能力管理和系统管理，促进了关于学术数字基础设施治理的知识现状。数字基础设施是依靠互联网技术、数字数据和社会实践共同创造跨越时间和空间的功能的大规模社会技术系统。这项研究是由大型数字项目的增长推动的，这些项目旨在支持信息人工制品的数字化、保存、访问和再利用。对信息的长期可持续计算资源的需求在社会的各个方面无处不在，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来开发的，目的是对比和比较数字基础设施的制度实践，它追求两个研究问题：数字基础设施治理的共同和独特方面是什么？数字基础设施如何协调这些数字技术和做法的互操作性、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营方式、选择方式、资源分配方式、协商问题方式和提供服务方式。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组合，也受到了这些决定的影响。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。确定和阐明这些模式和结构是该项目的核心。

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.