Collaborative Research: CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Enhancing Social Science Research Training with Collaborative Tagging

这是一项提案，旨在展示让学生作为社会科学网络基础设施的创造者和用户参与的新方法。这种方法的核心是协作标记技术，用于允许用户在社会科学数据中注册“标签”，然后在自己或他人注册的标签上进行搜索以定位对象。这项技术用于让学生研究人员访问和促进社会科学数据的协作注释，从而提高他们的知识和数据的理解，建立他们与他人合作的能力，并加快他们成为高质量研究人员的能力。在这个项目中，将使用参加安阿伯密歇根大学ICPSR社会研究定量方法夏季课程的多样化学生群体。该项目团队将利用自然出版集团的Connotea技术，构建一个可标记版本的综合社会调查（GSS），这是一个在社会科学研究和教学中广泛使用的数据集。在2008年夏天，项目团队将与学生和教师在ICPSR夏季计划进行初步工作，以开发和评估标记的概念。到2009年夏天，该项目将准备进行全面测试和评估，其中治疗组和对照组将接受相同的指导，但使用不同配置的GSS数据集，一个配置为可以访问标记系统，另一个则没有。对学生成绩的评估将决定该计划的成功，推动调查结果的传播，并协助规划未来的活动。

This is a proposal to demonstrate new ways to engage students as creators and users of social sciences cyberinfrastructure. At the core of this approach is collaborative tagging technology, which are used to allow users to register "tags" with social science data and then search on tags registered by themselves or others to locate objects. This technology is used to allow student researchers to access and contribute to a collaborative exegesis on social science data, thus improving their knowledge and understanding of data, building their capacity to work with others, and speeding up their ability to be high quality researchers. In this Project a diverse student population that attends the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor will be used. The project team will build upon Nature Publishing Groups' Connotea technology to construct a taggable version of the General Social Survey (GSS), a widely used dataset in social science research and teaching. In Summer 2008, the project team will conduct preliminary work with students and faculty in the ICPSR Summer Program to develop and evaluate the tagging concept. By summer 2009, the project will be ready for a full-scale test and evaluation, in which a treatment group and a control group will receive the same instruction but make use of differently configured GSS datasets, one configured with access to the tagging system, and one without. Evaluation of student outcomes will determine the program's success, drive dissemination of findings, and assist in planning future activities.