ELOKA Phase II: Toward Operational Data Management Support for Community-Based Observations Contributing to the Arctic Observing Network

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项支持北极地区观测和知识交流项目（ELOKA）的持续发展。它提供数据管理和用户支持，以促进当地观测和知识的收集、保存、交换和使用。ELOKA的第一阶段是发展性的。该合同将帮助ELOKA进入全面运作模式，帮助项目获取、管理和保存其数据，并通过项目门户或ELOKA门户作为访问所有合作伙伴项目的手段，为基于用户的搜索、浏览和数据访问提供用户友好的工具。ELOKA有三个主要的“智力优势”。首先，它将进一步发展创新的数据管理方法，以处理“非传统”形式的信息。其次，它将使更多的观测数据和信息通过数据的可发现性提供给更广泛的研究界和其他领域。第三，ELOKA通过为社会科学项目、社区研究项目和其他具有“非传统数据”的项目提供数据管理服务，填补了北极研究的关键空白，其中许多项目被授权提供其元数据和数据，但目前几乎没有支持的选择。ELOKA有几个“更广泛的影响”。它将通过支持北极地区以社区为基础的项目，扩大土著居民对科学活动的参与。它将使更多的受众能够获得土著的观察和观点，增加对北极人民及其与不断变化的环境的关系的普遍了解。它还将通过促进信息和思想的交流，改善科学界和土著社区之间的沟通与合作。有了一个支持他们的网络，北极居民和土著社区也将加强彼此之间的联系，并有一个机制来表达当地和集体的想法和发现。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award supports the continued development of the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA). It provides data management and user support to facilitate the collection, preservation, exchange, and use of local observations and knowledge. The first phase of ELOKA was developmental. This award will help move ELOKA into a fully operational mode that will help projects to acquire, manage and preserve their data, and to provide user-friendly tools for user-based searches, browsing and data access, through either project portals or the ELOKA portal as a means of access to all partner projects. There are three main "Intellectual Merits" of ELOKA. First, it will further develop innovative data management approaches to handle 'non-traditional' forms of information. Second, it will make more observational data and information available to the wider research community and beyond through discoverability of data. Third, ELOKA fills a critical gap in Arctic research by providing data management services to social science projects, community-based research projects, and other projects with 'non-traditional data', many of which are mandated to make their metadata and data available, but currently have few options for support. ELOKA has several "Broader Impacts". It will expand indigenous participation in scientific activities by supporting community-based projects in the Arctic. It will make indigenous observations and perspectives accessible to a larger audience, increasing general understanding of Arctic peoples and their relationship with a changing environment. And it will improve communication and collaboration between the scientific and indigenous communities by promoting the exchange of information and ideas. With a network in place to support them, Arctic residents and indigenous communities will also strengthen their ties to each other and have a mechanism to voice local and collective ideas and findings.