CIVIC-PG Track B: Legacy Building Toolset

Legacy Building Toolset （LBT）是一个以交互式数据可视化为中心的数字平台，它允许社区成员共同探索身份、地点的意义，并创建和参与社区资产。目前，这些工具和方法尚未得到充分的探索，这是令人担忧的，因为公共政策往往是基于决策者如何从居民的角度看待地方的意义。因此，居民经常发现收集和组织社区信息以呈现给政策制定者是具有挑战性的，或者在他们对建筑形式的解释仍未得到认可时面临排斥。LBT的目标是实现社区可访问的工具，在大规模、实时、覆盖文化和身份的建筑形式中创造社区驱动的意义解释。该工具将在俄克拉荷马城东北部开发，这是一个以黑人为主的弱势社区，所获得的知识将传播给美国其他社区使用。通过设想的第二阶段试点项目，遗留建筑工具集（LBT）的开发和部署将结合photovoice和讲故事的成功参与方法，以及通过众包数据编辑和直接在地图、时间轴和其他数据可视化中查看的可扩展性。LBT将包括一系列直观交互的、以可视化为中心的、由web服务数据库后端支持的浏览器内数据编辑和查看应用程序。这些应用程序将支持输入有关人物、地点、时间和其他细节的信息，通过直接在可视化本身中进行交互式手势。这包括用照片、视频或音频注释位置、地区和时间的机会。这些应用程序还将支持将信息组织到集成了文本、可视化和多媒体注释的故事中。现有的照片语音和讲故事的方法通常需要一个面对面的专家来组织和领导这个过程。通过以可视化为中心的用户界面，LBT将提供收集、组织和管理社区信息的不那么集中的方法。社区将能够更加独立于专家开发和使用故事。许多城市设计和规划项目可能仍然受益于甚至需要专家的参与，但社区将能够通过lgbt识别需求，并根据需要召集社区内部或外部的专家。更广泛的影响将是使社区协作项目的参与更容易获得、可用和可扩展，特别是在历史上处于不利地位的社区，并扩大数据共享和基于数据共享的项目的用户基础。该项目是对公民创新挑战项目（track b）的回应，旨在弥合基本资源与服务和社区需求之间的差距，是国家科学基金会、国土安全部和能源部之间的合作项目。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。

The Legacy Building Toolset (LBT) is a digital platform, centered on interactive data visualizations, that allows community members to collectively explore identity, the meaning of place, and create and engage with community assets. Currently such tools and methods are underexplored, which is concerning because public policy is often based on how policymakers perceive the meaning of place from the perspective of residents. As a result, residents often find it challenging to collect and organize community information to present to policy makers or face exclusion when their interpretations of the built form remain unrecognized. The LBT aims to realize community-accessible tools for creating community-driven interpretations of meaning in the built form at a large scale, in real time, and with an overlay of culture and identity. The tool will be developed in Northeast Oklahoma City, a disadvantaged and predominantly Black community, and the knowledge gained will be disseminated for use by other communities across the United States. The development and deployment of the Legacy Building Toolset (LBT) through the envisioned Stage 2 pilot project will combine successful engagement methods of photovoice and storytelling with scalability via crowdsourced data editing and viewing directly inside maps, timelines, and other data visualizations. The LBT will include a collection of intuitively interactive, visualization-centric, in-browser data editing and viewing applications supported by a web services database backend. The applications will support entry of information about people, places, times, and other details through interactive gesturing directly in the visualizations themselves. This includes opportunities to annotate locations, regions, and times with photos, video, or audio. The applications will also support organization of information into stories that integrate text, visualizations, and multimedia annotations. Existing photovoice and storytelling methods often require an in-person expert who organizes and leads the process. Through visualization-centric user interfaces, the LBT will provide less centralized methods of collecting, organizing, and curating community information. The community will be able to develop and use stories more independently of experts. Many urban design and planning projects may still benefit from or even require expert involvement, but the community will be able to identify needs through the LBT and call upon experts internal or external to the community as needed. The broader impacts will be to make participation in community collaboration projects involving sharing of data more accessible, usable, and scalable, especially in historically disadvantaged communities, and broaden the user base for both data sharing and projects built on it. This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program—Track B. Bridging the gap between essential resources and services & community needs—and is a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Energy.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.