CI-KNOW Cyberinfrastructure Tools to Enable Knowledge Network Discovery, Diagnosis and Design

美国国家科学基金会关于网络基础设施的蓝带小组报告描述了先进的计算机、网络和数据技术对科学和工程研究产生革命性影响的潜力。然而，要实现这一潜力，就需要调动大量资源，每年可能多达10亿美元。虽然CI具有明显的重要性，但与通过使用CI实现的预期突破和成果相比，CI仍然相对模糊。这一建议是基于这样一种信念，即增加对网络基础设施的理解和可见性在于能够创建工具，使CI支持的科学和政策网络的引人注目的，交互式的，数据驱动的可视化和探索成为可能。该提案旨在开发一套工具，以帮助网络基础设施研究人员社区内的社会和知识网络的发现，诊断和设计。这个CI范围项目将开发一套工具，CI范围，探索与CI的开发和部署相关的网络，提供有关CI如何实现协作以及如何改进CI协作的重要见解。该项目将侧重于国家基金会资助的持续传播和信息项目和讲习班。拟议的工作将确定适当的数据，技术，流程和工具，用于创建和探索与CI社区相关的知识网络。首先，CI-Scope将为CI研究人员和开发人员提供一套前所未有的可视化分析发现工具，以识别谁知道谁，谁知道谁知道谁，谁知道什么？然后呢？谁知道谁知道什么。 其次，诊断工具将帮助NSF和其他资助机构的决策者管理CI开发和部署的投资组合，分析和可视化CI知识网络中的优势，差距和潜在的增长机会。第三，诊断将提供基础，发展社会技术激励设计更有效的虚拟组织内社区的CI研究人员。

The NSF blue ribbon panel report on cyberinfrastructure describes the potential of advanced computer, network and data technologies to revolutionize scientific and engineering research. Realization of this potential, however, will require mobilization of tremendous resources, perhaps as much as $1 billion per year. While clearly significant, CI remains relatively obscure compared to the expected breakthroughs and results that will be enabled through the use of CI. This proposal is premised on the belief that increasing the understanding and visibility of cyberinfrastructure lies in the ability to create tools that enable compelling, interactive, data-driven visualization and exploration of CI-enabled science and policy networks. This proposal seeks to develop, CI-Scope, a suite of tools to help discovery, diagnosis, and design of social and knowledge networks within the community of cyberinfrastructure researchers. This CI-Scope project will develop a suite of tools, CI-Scope, for exploring networks associated with the development and deployment of CI in ways that provide important insights regarding how CI enables collaboration and how CI collaborations might be improved. The project will focus on the portfolio of ongoing NSF-funded CI projects and workshops. The proposed work will identify the appropriate data, techniques, processes, and tools for creating and exploring the knowledge networks associated with the CI community. First, CI-Scope will provide the community of CI researchers and developers an unprecedented suite of visual-analytic Discovery tools to identify, who knows who, who knows who knows who, who knows what? and ?who knows who knows what. Second, the Diagnostic tools will help decision makers, at NSF and other funding agencies who are managing the portfolio of investments for CI development and deployment, analyze and visualize the strength, gaps, and potential growth opportunities within the CI knowledge networks. Third, the diagnostics will provide the basis for developing socio-technical incentives to Design more effective virtual organizations within the community of CI researchers.