SCC-VO: Community First: A Smart and Connected Communities Virtual Organization

国家科学基金会的旗舰智能互联社区(S和CC)计划于2016年启动，旨在通过有意义的社区参与和合作支持技术和社会层面的研究进步。S与CC项目现在已经到了一个点，为了进一步促进这一新的跨学科领域的快速发展，虚拟组织(VO)至关重要。该项目的中心目标是通过创建一个新的S和CC-VO来加速智能互联社区领域不同学科的融合。S CC-VO将(I)促进和促进S和CC主要研究人员及其团队(包括社区合作伙伴)之间的互动和交流；(Ii)使S和CC项目产生的文物和知识能够与更广泛的科学和非学术社区(如当地社区利益相关者)共享；以及(Iii)促进和促进S和CC研究人员、社区利益相关者和其他人之间的合作和信息交流。S CC-VO将通过跨越学术界、政府、行业，特别是社区组织的合作伙伴关系，促进S CC领域的知识和学习。该项目将创建和维护一个基于网络的存储库和协作平台，以促进S研究人员、利益攸关方和更广泛的社区之间探索和公开交换研究成果、工具、数据集和教育材料。为了增加对发现的访问，虚拟组织将允许使用共享分类来管理内容，以便可以从传统上分离的域中找到关键数据、工具和发现。活动资源将允许专家和非专家轻松访问以探索数据集、工具链和研究成果。通过在可配置的、按需的基础上构建功能、审核内容以及最终使VO作为一个有影响力的社区驱动型组织接受社区评估、反馈和审查，将使可操作的信息变得可访问。针对学术界、政府、行业、非营利组织和其他利益相关者的外展活动将在S与文化合作组织内部以及通过社区参与会议提供便利。S与CC国际年会上的S社区论坛以及中国物联网周进一步在技术和社会层面创造了撮合和互动机制的机会。S中心-VO将成为一个高效的工具，扩大不同的弱势社区、基层组织和志愿者群体对研究项目的参与。开放和允许访问研究主题、团队机会、数据集、工具链和其他研究成果消除了进入研究领域的高门槛，通过开放获取提高了公平性，并使最需要S和CC成果的领域能够形成竞争性项目。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

NSF’s flagship Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) program was launched in 2016 to support research advances in technological and social dimensions with meaningful community engagement and collaboration. The S&CC program has now reached a point where a virtual organization (VO) is essential to further catalyze the rapid evolution of this new cross-disciplinary field. The central goal of this project is to accelerate convergence of diverse disciplines in the smart and connected communities domain through the creation of a new S&CC-VO. The S&CC-VO will (i) facilitate and foster interaction and exchanges among S&CC principal investigators and their teams, including community partners; (ii) enable sharing of artifacts and knowledge generated by S&CC projects with the broader scientific and non-academic communities such as local community stakeholders; and (iii) facilitate and foster collaboration and information exchange between S&CC researchers, community stakeholders, and others. The S&CC-VO will advance knowledge and learning in the S&CC field through partnerships spanning academia, government, industry, and especially, community organizations. The project will create and maintain a web-based repository and collaborative platform to facilitate the exploration and open exchange of research results, tools, datasets and educational materials among S&CC researchers, stakeholders, and the broader community. To increase access to discoveries, the virtual organization will allow curating content with shared taxonomies so critical data, tools, and discoveries can be found from traditionally separated domains. Active resources will allow easy access to explore datasets, toolchains, and research artifacts for experts and non-experts alike. Actionable information will be made accessible by building out features in a configurable, as-needed basis, by moderating content, and by ultimately keeping the VO as an impactful community driven organization subject to community evaluation, feedback, and review. Outreach activities for academic, government, industry, non-profits, and other stakeholders will be facilitated within the S&CC-VO and through community engagement sessions. The S&CC Community Forum at the annual S&CC PI Meeting, and CPS-IoT Week further create opportunities for matchmaking and mechanisms for engagement along both technological and social dimensions. The S&CC-VO will become a highly effective tool for broadening participation of diverse and vulnerable communities, grass-roots organizations, and volunteer groups in research programs. Opening up and enabling access to research topics, teaming opportunities, datasets, toolchains, and other research artifacts eliminates the high threshold to entering the research field, improves equity by open access, and enables the formation of competitive projects in areas that need S&CC results the most.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.