Assessment and Evaluations of NSF OAC-Funded Program Impact on the Scientific Community

网络基础设施（CI）对于科学和工程的进步和变革至关重要。在过去的十年中，CI社区一直致力于开发安全、先进、可扩展的全球CI资源、工具和服务，创建一个可互操作和协作的CI生态系统。为了在战略上向前推进，了解CI计划对科学研究界的影响至关重要。该奖项支持通过与网络基础设施社区合作，了解和增强NSF的持续科学创新网络基础设施（CSSI）计划及其前身等计划的影响，来理解这种影响。为此，PI将收集相关信息，进行有针对性的调查，并编写一份报告，描述调查结果并绘制CI研究的未来方向。这项工作将通过系统的横向调查评估，对最近的数据和软件计划的影响提供新的理解。该评估旨在评估数据基础设施构建模块（DIBBs），持续创新软件基础设施（SI 2）和持续科学创新网络基础设施（CSSI）计划下资助的活动的影响。方法是：（1）确定活动范围，建立调查设计框架;（2）设计和管理调查;（3）分析结果，并将调查结果综合成一份报告。通过深入了解Cyberinfrastrucutre中最有效的研究支持方法，并扩大先进的Cyberinfrastrucutre研究对科学和工程领域的影响，成果将广泛惠及科学研究界。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is essential to the advancement and transformation of science and engineering. Over the last decade, the CI community has focused on developing secure, advanced, scalable, and global CI resources, tools, and services, creating an interoperable and collaborative CI ecosystem. In order to move forward strategically, it is critical to understand the impact that CI programs have had on the scientific research community. This award supports an effort to develop an understanding of this impact, by working with the Cyberinfrastructure community to understand and enhance the impact of programs such as NSF's Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program and its predecessors. To this end, the PIs will gather relevant information, conduct a targeted survey, and prepare a report describing findings and mapping out the future directions of CI research.This work will provide new understanding of the impact of recent Data and Software Programs, through a systematic cross-cutting survey-based assessment. The assessment will seek to evaluate the impact of the activities funded under the Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs), Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2), and Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) programs. The approach is to (1) determine the scope of the activity and establish a framework for design of the survey (2) design and administer the survey and (3) analyze the results and synthesize the findings into a report. The outcomes will benefit the scientific research community broadly, by providing insights into the most effective methods of research support in Cyberinfrastrucutre, and broadening the impact of advanced Cyberinfrastructure research on the science and engineering domains.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.