Creative Metaphors to Stimulate New Approaches to Visualizing, Understanding, and Rethinking Large Repositories of Scholarly Data

该项目促进了艺术家和科学家之间的独特合作，目标是开发、实施和验证新的隐喻和方法，以访问、管理和交流学术数据集。研究结果有望在大规模学术数据集的组织、分析和可视化方面具有变革性的力量。三位艺术家将与印第安纳大学信息可视化实验室和网络科学中心的网络基础设施的科学家一起工作。这些艺术家将与数据库专家一起解析、构建和加载新的数据集到一个多tb的学术数据数据库中。艺术家们将使用大量的数据分析和可视化算法。他们将参加头脑风暴、技术和设计会议。最重要的是，艺术家们将作为平等的合作伙伴完全沉浸在不同的项目中。将进行人种学研究，以捕捉、优化和交流这种独特的合作。这是一项探索性的工作，因为我们无法预测当艺术家沉浸在实验室中，被要求重新思考和重塑研究进行的方式，研究人员使用和设计的工具，以及交流结果的方式时，会发生什么。这项研究的广泛影响将通过三个研讨会来促进，这些研讨会汇集了艺术家和科学家，他们在(2)科学动态的交流，(2)新设备和互动技术，以及(3)信息戏剧化方面具有协同专业知识。这些研讨会将学者和艺术家聚集在一起，通常不会在学术环境中见面。

This project facilitates a unique collaboration among artists and scientists with the goal to develop, implement, and validate novel metaphors and approaches to access, manage, and communicate scholarly datasets. The results are expected to have transformative power in terms of the organization, analysis, and visualization of large-scale scholarly datasets. A sequence of three artists will work with scientists at the Information Visualization Laboratory and the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The artists will work with database experts on parsing, structuring, and loading new datasets into a multi-terabyte database of scholarly data. The artists will play with a multitude of data analysis and visualization algorithms. They will participate in brainstorming, technical, and design sessions. Most importantly, the artists will be fully immersed as equal partners in different projects. Ethnographic studies will be conducted to capture, optimize, and communicate this unique collaboration. This is exploratory work as we cannot predict what will happen when artists are immersed in the Lab and are asked to rethink and reinvent the way in which research is conducted, the tools being used and designed by the researchers, and the means of communicating results.The broader impact of this research will be facilitated by three workshops that bring together artists and scientists with synergistic expertise in (2) the communication of science dynamics, (2) novel devices and interactivity techniques, and (3) dramatization of information. These workshops bring together scholars and artist that normally do not meet in a scholarly setting.