CIC-E: COVID Information Commons Extension for Pandemic Recovery

CIC(http://covidinfocommons.datascience.columbia.edu/)，于2020年5月通过国家科学基金会国家科学研究中心快速反应研究(RAPID)奖成立，旨在促进国家科学基金会资助的国家科学研究中心的信息共享和合作。最初的重点是汇编由国家科学基金会各主管部门资助的所有与COVID有关的项目的公开信息，以便创建一个易于搜索的语料库。除了公开的信息外，CIC还通过自愿调查收集了项目的自我报告信息。创建了一系列网络研讨会，由美国国家科学基金会资助的COVID快速研究项目的研究人员进行演讲。CIC的延期将扩大CIC最初的努力，将NSF资助的与大流行恢复阶段相关的所有项目也包括在内。此外，除了由国家科学基金会资助的项目外，它还将寻求纳入与气候变化和艾滋病相关的努力的公开可获得的信息。CIC最初的努力清楚地展示了将一系列与气候变化和艾滋病有关的不同项目的信息汇集到一个地方的好处，从而使感兴趣的用户能够有效地搜索信息并发现不同努力之间的联系。这有助于促进社区的创建，并有助于促进合作。CIC扩展将继承这一想法，将大流行恢复阶段的项目包括在内，并将另外纳入与信息交互的当代方式，例如通过使用语义搜索方法搜索和发现链接信息，以及使用领域本体和知识图机制。Broader Impact是COVID信息共享中心的想法的核心，它将公共可用信息与NSF资助的COVID相关研究项目的自愿自我报告信息汇集在一起，以便能够搜索和发现信息以及个人努力之间的协作。CIC已经展示了在来自不同科学学科和来自全国不同地区的研究人员之间建立这种合作的早期成功，这些研究人员因对研究COVID大流行的共同兴趣而聚集在一起。通过将CIC的工作扩展到大流行恢复阶段，CIC的扩展将覆盖到更大、更多样化的COVID研究人员社区，并促进从事COVID相关研究的研究人员之间的联系。CIC的延期还将建立和扩大在这一努力的初始阶段启动的成功的研究网络研讨会系列和本科生参与计划。该奖项全部或部分根据《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)提供资金。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已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。

The COVID Information Commons, CIC (http://covidinfocommons.datascience.columbia.edu/), was established in May 2020 via an NSF COVID Rapid Response Research (RAPID) award to facilitate information sharing and collaboration across NSF-funded COVID research efforts. The initial focus was on compiling publicly available information from all COVID-related projects funded by the various Directorates across NSF in order to create a easily searchable corpus. In addition to the publicly available information, the CIC also collected self-report information from the projects via a voluntary survey. A webinar series was created, featuring talks by researchers from the NSF-funded COVID RAPID research projects. The CIC Extension will extend this initial CIC effort to also include all projects funded by NSF related to the pandemic recovery phase. In addition, it will seek to include publicly available information on COVID-related efforts beyond those funded by the NSF.The initial CIC effort clearly demonstrated the benefits of bringing together information about a diverse set of COVID-related projects into a single place, thereby enabling interested users to efficiently search for information and discover linkages among diverse efforts. This helped foster the creation of a community and helped catalyze collaborations. The CIC Extension will carry forward this idea to include projects in the pandemic recovery phase, and will additionally incorporate contemporary ways of interacting with the information such as via search and discovery of linked information using semantic search methods, and the use of domain ontologies and knowledge graph mechanisms.Broader impact is central to the idea of the COVID Information Commons, which pulls together publicly available information along with voluntary self-report information on NSF-funded COVID-related research projects in order to enable search and discovery of information and collaborations among individual efforts. The CIC has demonstrated early successes in creating such collaborations among researchers from diverse scientific disciplines and from different parts of the country drawn together by their common interest in studying the COVID pandemic. By extending the CIC effort to the pandemic recovery phase, the CIC Extension will reach an even larger and more diverse community of COVID researchers and facilitate networking among researchers engaged in COVID-related research. The CIC Extension will also build upon and expand the successful research webinar series and undergraduate engagement programs initiated in the initial phase of this effort.This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).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.