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Standard Research Grant: Toxic Docs 2.0 Research Infrastructure Project

标准研究补助金：Toxic Docs 2.0 研究基础设施项目

基本信息

批准号：
2147334
负责人：
Merlin Chowkwanyun
金额：
$ 34.94万
依托单位：
Columbia University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-04-01 至 2025-03-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2147334&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Standard Research Grant Toxic Docs

项目摘要

The past two decades have seen a veritable explosion in information technology innovations that allow for large-scale, mass digitization of documents. Toxic Docs leverages these innovations to provide users with access to the world’s largest database of material on toxic substances (lead, asbestos, dioxin, PCBs, polyvinyl chloride, silica, and more). These include internal memos; unpublished scientific studies; boardroom minutes; and public relations documents. Almost all the material in Toxic Docs was previously inaccessible but has been unleashed in high-stakes legal litigation, then made public by our database. Users include academic researchers, environmental health scientists, journalists, and policy analysts. It is open to all and free of charge. This iteration of Toxic Docs builds on the previous one in five ways. First, it continues expanding the collection. It is processing millions of additional pages of documents on asbestos and talc; PCBs; and silicosis and regularly receives more material. Second, a companion site, Toxic Tools, will offer users additional ways of probing the material in addition to full-text search. These include a named entity recognition tool that pries out common names, organizations, and places; a geography parser that fishes out documents related to locales; and a network guesser that infers relationships among people mentioned in documents; among others. Third, a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) wing will use responses from public records requests to build our collections. Finally, an Application Programming Interface (API) will allow users interested in working with plain-text versions of our data to do so. Toxic Docs provides the raw data necessary to construct fresh narratives about the new world of 21st-century environmental health risk. Its openness allows users to make their own objective judgments on how these substances came to circulate so widely in the environment.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.

在过去的二十年里，信息技术创新出现了真正的爆炸式增长，使大规模、大规模的文件数字化成为可能。Toxic Sites利用这些创新为用户提供了访问世界上最大的有毒物质（铅、石棉、二恶英、多氯联苯、聚氯乙烯、二氧化硅等）材料数据库的机会。这些包括内部备忘录;未发表的科学研究;董事会会议记录;和公共关系文件。几乎所有的材料在有毒的电子邮件是以前无法访问，但已被释放的高风险法律的诉讼，然后公布我们的数据库。用户包括学术研究人员，环境卫生科学家，记者和政策分析师。它对所有人开放，免费。Toxic的这个迭代以五种方式建立在前一个基础上。首先，它继续扩大收藏。它正在处理数百万页关于石棉和滑石、多氯联苯和硅肺病的额外文件，并定期收到更多的材料。第二，一个配套网站，有毒工具，将提供用户额外的方式来探测的材料，除了全文搜索。这些工具包括一个命名实体识别工具，可以识别出常见的名称、组织和地点;一个地理解析器，可以找出与地区相关的文档;一个网络猜测器，可以推断文档中提到的人之间的关系;等等。第三，一个新的信息自由法（FOIA）翼将使用公共记录请求的响应来建立我们的收藏。最后，应用程序编程接口（API）将允许有兴趣使用我们数据的纯文本版本的用户这样做。《有毒有害物质》提供了必要的原始数据，以构建关于21世纪环境健康风险新世界的新叙述。它的开放性使用户能够对这些物质如何在环境中如此广泛地传播做出自己的客观判断。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而被认为值得支持。