ELOKA Phase V: Collaborative Data Stewardship and Knowledge Mobilization for Arctic Community-Driven Research and Observing

ELOKA 第五阶段：北极社区驱动的研究和观测的协作数据管理和知识动员

• 批准号: 2032423
• 负责人: Noor Jehan Johnson
• 金额: $ 380.31万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-02-01 至 2026-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2032423&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ELOKA; Phase; Collaborative; Data; Stewardship

The Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) partners with Indigenous organizations and researchers to facilitate the collection, preservation, exchange, and use of Indigenous knowledge and community-based observations. These contributions to Arctic science are critical for understanding how the region’s Indigenous peoples and communities observe, understand, and respond to rapid environmental and social changes across their territorial landscapes that have been occupied for millennia. This collaborative award supports ELOKA’s work with partners in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, northern Europe, and Russia to ensure that information from community-based research and observing is protected and preserved while also made discoverable, accessible, and useful for Arctic residents, researchers, managers, and policy makers. This project will build data management capacity at the community level, develop digital tools to store and share data and knowledge, and identify ways to better evaluate the use of data and knowledge to address management and decision-making needs, for example, related to climate adaptation and community planning, environmental and wildlife management, and cultural and place-based education. ELOKA’s collaborative project activities will contribute to improved Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) training, education, and leadership opportunities for Indigenous peoples, an underrepresented minority in STEM.In its fifth phase, ELOKA will collaborate with researchers and Arctic Indigenous communities to develop a community data management (CDM) system focused on enhancing the usefulness of community-based research and observing while supporting data sovereignty. As the first of four goals, ELOKA will co-develop a framework to assess the use and usefulness of CDM digital data infrastructures by convening two thematic working groups focused on place names and long-term observing. Working group members will co-develop use cases to document, examine and explore enhancements for how data management tools are used by communities and other end users. These will be synthesized to create a framework for developing useful and usable CDM applications. Second, this project will co-develop tools, including enhanced and new digital applications, to make community data more usable and useful for natural resource management, land use planning, teaching and curriculum development, language and cultural preservation, and long-term observing of Arctic change. Third, ELOKA will build capacity for data stewardship and Indigenous data sovereignty by providing trainings in partner communities, offering mini workshops at Arctic science meetings and conferences, and extending the use of ELOKA-developed atlases and databases in community institutions, including schools, wildlife management and hunter/harvester organizations, and community and regional planning offices. Fourth, this project will co-develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework to guide project assessment and learning. ELOKA will contribute to understanding and advancing knowledge co-production through collaborative sharing of data and information that engages both Indigenous and scientific knowledge. An Indigenous co-production of knowledge leadership team will oversee the development of a research protocol, implementation of the project, and dissemination of results. ELOKA research will advance practices for community-driven and user-informed design of data management systems across the Arctic, with the potential to contribute to Arctic observing networks and to significantly improve prediction, planning and adaptation in the face of accelerating social and environmental change.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.

北极当地观测和知识交流中心 (ELOKA) 与原住民组织和研究人员合作，促进原住民知识和社区观测资料的收集、保存、交换和使用。这些对北极科学的贡献对于了解该地区的土著人民和社区如何观察、理解和应对其被占领了数千年的领土景观的快速环境和社会变化至关重要。该合作奖项支持 ELOKA 与阿拉斯加、加拿大、格陵兰岛、北欧和俄罗斯的合作伙伴的合作，以确保来自社区的研究和观测的信息得到保护和保存，同时也使北极居民、研究人员、管理人员和政策制定者可以发现、获取和使用。该项目将在社区层面建设数据管理能力，开发数字工具来存储和共享数据和知识，并确定更好地评估数据和知识的使用的方法，以满足管理和决策需求，例如与气候适应和社区规划、环境和野生动物管理以及文化和地方教育相关的需求。 ELOKA 的合作项目活动将有助于改善土著人民（STEM 领域代表性不足的少数群体）的科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 培训、教育和领导机会。在第五阶段，ELOKA 将与研究人员和北极土著社区合作开发社区数据管理 (CDM) 系统，重点是增强基于社区的研究和观测的实用性，同时支持数据主权。作为四个目标中的第一个，ELOKA 将通过召集两个专注于地名和长期观测的专题工作组来共同开发一个框架，以评估 CDM 数字数据基础设施的使用和有用性。工作组成员将共同开发用例来记录、检查和探索社区和其他最终用户如何使用数据管理工具的增强功能。这些将被综合起来创建一个框架，用于开发有用和可用的 CDM 应用程序。其次，该项目将共同开发工具，包括增强的和新的数字应用程序，以使社区数据对于自然资源管理、土地利用规划、教学和课程开发、语言和文化保护以及北极变化的长期观察更加有用。第三，ELOKA 将通过在合作伙伴社区提供培训、在北极科学会议和大会上举办小型研讨会以及在社区机构（包括学校、野生动物管理和狩猎/收获组织以及社区和区域规划办公室）扩大使用 ELOKA 开发的地图集和数据库来建设数据管理和土著数据主权的能力。第四，该项目将共同开发和实施监测和评估（M&E）框架，以指导项目评估和学习。 ELOKA 将通过协作共享涉及土著知识和科学知识的数据和信息，为理解和推进知识共同生产做出贡献。知识领导团队的本土合作将监督研究方案的制定、项目的实施和结果的传播。 ELOKA 研究将推进整个北极社区驱动和用户知情的数据管理系统设计实践，有可能为北极观测网络做出贡献，并在面临加速的社会和环境变化时显着改善预测、规划和适应。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。