CI-Facilitators: Information Architects across the STEM Disciplines

该项目的目标是制定一个教育，培训和核心原则的计划，以促进在整个科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科中采用网络基础设施。网络基础设施的进步经常超过科学界？的能力，利用他们。掌握自己的学科的挑战通常也排除了成为先进的网络基础设施的专家，这种情况下需要教育和培训一种新的信息处理人员，称为网络基础设施促进者或CI促进者。这些CI促进者将拥有利用当前信息基础设施进行创新的能力，以及在新信息基础设施出现时掌握新信息基础设施的元认知技能。在这个世界中，CI促进者将成为研究企业的重要成员，与STEM研究人员密切合作，以确定可以集成的现有工具，数据集和其他资源，以追求涉及同事的共享研究目标，无论他们位于何处。这一建议的科学价值在于系统的战略，将建立矩阵的知识，技能和工具，包括CI-促进者的作用，以及一个彻底的方法来形成和总结性评估的程序功能和过程。该项目的成果将用于创建一个可转移的专业知识系统，以促进网络基础设施的采用。

The goal of this project is to develop a program of education, training, and core principles for advancing the adoption of cyberinfrastructure throughout the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Advances in cyberinfrastructure have frequently outstripped the scientific community?s capability for taking advantage of them. The challenges of mastering ones own discipline generally preclude also becoming an expert in advanced cyberinfrastructure, and this situation creates the need for the education and training of a new breed of information processionals called Cyberinfrastructure Facilitators or CI-facilitators. These CI-facilitators will possess both the capabilities to innovate with current information infrastructure and the metacognitive skills to master new information infrastructure as it emerges. In this world, a CI-facilitator would become a vital member of the research enterprise who works closely with STEM researchers to identify extant tools, data sets, and other resources that can be integrated to pursue shared research objectives involving colleagues wherever they might be geographically located. The scientific merit of this proposal lies in the systematic strategy that will establish the matrix of knowledge, skills, and tools comprising the CI-facilitator role, as well as a thorough approach to formative and summative evaluation of the programs features and processes. The result of the project will be used to create a transferable system of expertise for advancing the adoption of cyberinfrastructure.