SCI: Expanding Cyber-Communities: A Workshop on Developing New Models for the Natural, Social, and Human Sciences; April 2006; Irvine, CA

这次研讨会将汇集来自十几个机构的研究人员，举行一次密集的会议，以评估、评估和制定关于过去几年通过名为HASTAC(人文、艺术、科学和技术高级合作实验室)的多机构、多学科联盟开发的强大的网络基础设施模型的战略。该联盟是由来自十几个机构的领先研究人员自愿组成的，自2003年初以来，他们一直在共同开发软件、硬件和网络基础设施系统。拟议的研讨会将有助于实现HASTAC成员以前六次会议的好处，方法是评估他们过去合作的产品，汇编现有开放源码软件、搜索引擎和应用程序的“人文科学工具箱”，供公众广泛使用，并为未来的合作制定路线图，包括优先事项。参与者代表了各种各样的学科：社会和行为科学家、工程师、计算机科学家，他们都有网络基础设施方面的工作经验。讲习班利用所有学科提供的各种方法，从社会结构、个人关系、伦理和公平问题、历史先例、跨学科互动和研究的合作模式(中介和面对面)等方面分析网络基础设施。讲习班将为期两天，最有可能在2006年4月举行。组委会将指导研讨会的规划和实施。这项活动建立在现有努力的基础上，同时鼓励扩大，特别是通过扩大代表性不足群体的参与。讲习班的结果将被记录下来，并张贴在HASTAC网站和在线期刊《Needle》上。通过确定优先顺序的路线图，研讨会将促进更广泛的努力：信息年。这项为期一年的活动旨在对网络基础设施进行建模、演示和实施，并将新的软件、硬件和中间件投入使用，以支持人文、艺术和社会科学向可用信息和通信技术阵列的转变。

This workshop will bring together researchers from over a dozen institutions for an intensive meeting to take stock of, assess, and strategize about the robust models for cyberinfrastructure that have been developed over the past few years through a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary consortium called HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). The consortium is a voluntary assemblage of leading researchers from over a dozen institutions who have been co-developing software, hardware, and cyberinfrastructure systems since early 2003. The proposed workshop will help to realize the benefits of six prior meetings of HASTAC members by assessing the products of their past collaborations, assembling a "Human Sciences Toolbox" of existing open source software, search engines and applications for broad public use, and creating a roadmap for future collaborations including priorities. The participants represent a very wide variety of disciplines: social and behavioral scientists, engineers, computer scientists, all of who have experience working with cyberinfrastructure. The workshop exploits the variety of methods offered from all disciplines to analyze cyberinfrastrucutre in terms of the social structures, individual relationships, ethical and equity issues, historical precedents, interdisciplinary interactions, and collaborative models of research (both mediated and face-to-face). The workshop will take place over a two-day period, most likely in April 2006. An organizing committee will guide the planning and execution of the workshop. This activity builds on an existing effort, while encouraging expansion, particularly through expanded participation of underrepresented groups. The results of the workshop will be documented and posted on the HASTAC website as well as in the on-line journal Needle. By defining a prioritized roadmap, the workshop will feed into a much broader effort: Information Year. This yearlong activity aims to model, demonstrate, and implement cyberinfrastructure and to put into circulation new software, hardware, and middleware to support a shift in the Humanities, Art, and Social Sciences toward the array of information and communications technologies available.