RIDIR: Building Cyberinfrastructure to Enable Interdisciplinary Research on the Long-Term Human Ecodynamics of the North Atlantic

该项目将制作在线工具和基础设施，使来自广泛学科的研究人员能够研究北大西洋背景下的人类生态动力学。北大西洋的气候和环境正在迅速和不可预测地变化，当地北方居民正被迫以许多不同的方式适应。来自北大西洋考古学、历史文献、气候科学和人文科学的数据表明，这并不是世界上该地区人类第一次面临这种挑战。研究北极环境与人类之间的相互作用需要将数千平方英里、数百年和从气候学到考古学再到人文科学的多个学科的数据联系起来，才能真正理解这些复杂的相互作用。数据集的存在通常能够解决这些问题，但仍然很难找到这些数据，使它们可互操作，并以新的和有意义的方式分析和可视化它们。对全面的在线网络基础设施的投资提供了将自然科学、社会科学和人文科学的合作者和数据联系起来的机会，从而有机会以全面的方法了解过去发生的迅速的社会和环境变化，并创建数字工具以扩大能力以吸引其他用户，包括学生和北方土著社区。CyberNABO项目将创建数据密集型在线工具和基础设施，将考古学家、气候科学家、人文学家和当地社区与研究人员直接提供的数据和小插曲连接起来，以研究北大西洋长期的人类生态动力学。该项目的最终目标是改变多学科几十年来收集的数据的可发现性和实用性。该项目的四个主要产品是：(1)北大西洋多学科数据的数据发现和可视化工具；(2)重复采集、转换、汇总、索引和进入链接数据库的系统；(3)鼓励数据生产者和利益攸关方机构更新其数据做法的培训模块；(4)以真实科学数据为基础的外展小插曲，突出北大西洋长期人类生态动力学的重要性。这一相互关联和分散的网络基础设施的建设将提供一个独特的机会，以开展真正具有变革性的合作研究，将自然科学、社会科学、环境人文科学、土著知识和创新的数据可视化联系起来，以解决北大西洋长期人类生态动力学的文化和环境驱动因素。

This project will produce online tools and infrastructure to enable researchers from a broad range of disciplines to study human ecodynamics in the North Atlantic context. Climate and environments in the North Atlantic are changing rapidly and unpredictably, and local northern residents are being forced to adapt in many different ways. Data from archaeology, historic documents, climate science, and the humanities in the North Atlantic indicate that this is not the first time humans in the region of the world have faced this challenge. Research on the interactions between Arctic environments and people requires linking data from over thousands of square miles, hundreds of years, and multiple disciplines, from climatology to archaeology to the humanities to truly understand these complex interactions. Datasets often exist to be able to address these questions, but it remains difficult to find these data, make them interoperable, and analyze and visualize them in new and meaningful ways. Investing in comprehensive online cyberinfrastructure provides the opportunity to link collaborators and data from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, resulting in the opportunity for a holistic approach to understand the rapid social and environmental changes that occurred in the past and for the creation of digital tools for expanded capacity to engage other users, including students and Indigenous northern communities. The cyberNABO project will create data-intensive online tools and infrastructure to connect archaeologists, climate scientists, humanists, and local communities with data and vignettes directly from researchers to study the long-term human ecodynamics of the North Atlantic. The ultimate goal of this project is to transform the discoverability and utility of data collected over multiple decades by multiple disciplines. The four main products of this project will be, (1) data discovery and visualization tools for multidisciplinary data from the North Atlantic, (2) a system for repeated harvesting, transformation, aggregation, indexing, and access to link databases, (3) training modules to encourage data producers and stakeholder institutions to modernize their data practices, and (4) outreach vignettes anchored in real scientific data that highlight the importance of the long-term human ecodynamics in the North Atlantic. The construction of this linked and distributed cyberinfrastructure will provide a unique opportunity to conduct genuinely transformative, collaborative research to connect natural science, social science, environmental humanities, Indigenous knowledge, and innovative data visualization in order to address the cultural and environmental drivers of the long-term human ecodynamics of the North Atlantic.