CAREER: The Open Source/Content Commons as a New Paradigm for Collaborative Scientific Research: A Research and Teaching Agenda

拟议的研究旨在确定导致开放源码(OS)软件项目成功和失败的因素，并了解这些因素与更通用的开放内容(OC)项目之间的关系。有两个具体的研究目标：(1)从开放公地的角度建立操作系统编程项目成功和失败的理论；(2)对开放内容项目进行纵向研究，看看它们是否表现出类似的成功/失败特征。两者的目标都将是为未来OS或OC项目的组织制定设计原则。为达致这些目标，我们会就业主立案法团和业主立案法团项目的制度设计进行实证研究。这项工作的预期贡献将是将关于“环境公地”治理的丰富的理论和实证研究与最近主要在信息系统领域发现的与操作系统有关的研究联系起来。教学目标是利用从研究项目中获得的知识，创建完全基于OS GIS软件的地理信息系统(GIS)课程。此外，还将教授学生如何参与OS/OC地理信息系统项目。该项目的在线教学部分包含了OS和OC的开放获取原则，有可能影响到全世界广泛的地理信息系统社区，并可能产生重要影响，特别是在发展中国家的背景下。但也许更重要的是，通过确定OS/OC Commons的设计原则，拟议的工作可以为未来如何组织基于互联网的协作科学研究提供新的见解。

The proposed research seeks to identify factors that lead to success and failure of Open Source (OS) software projects and to understand how these factors relate to more generic, open content (OC) projects. There are two specific research objectives: (1) To develop a theory of success and failure of OS programming projects seen from the point of view of an open commons; and (2) to undertake a longitudinal study of open content projects to see if they exhibit similar success/failure characteristics. The goal of both will be to develop design principles for the organization of future OS or OC projects. To achieve these objectives, an empirical study of the institutional designs of OS and OC projects will be undertaken. An expected contribution of the work will be to connect the rich body of theoretical and empirical research on the governance of "environmental commons" to the recent research related to OS found largely in the field of information systems. The teaching objective is to take the knowledge gained from the research program to create a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) curriculum based entirely on OS GIS software. In addition, students will be taught about participation in OS/OC GIS projects. The online teaching component of this project, which embraces the open access principles of OS and OC, has the potential to reach a broad GIS community worldwide and could make an important impact, especially in developing world contexts. But perhaps more importantly, through the identification of OS/OC commons design principles, the proposed work could provide new insights on how to organize Internet-based collaborative scientific research in the future.