Professional Dev Fellowship: Using informatics to advance history and philosophy of science research

该项目旨在同时满足获取信息学方面额外专业经验的需求，以推进科学史和科学哲学（HPS）的研究，并在这两个领域的交叉点开辟新的研究和调查领域。随着越来越多的文本、图像和档案资源以数字形式出现，科学史和哲学，以及更广泛的人文学科，正在经历一场类似于20世纪90年代和21世纪头十年生命科学的转型。虽然这些趋势是不可避免的，但这些领域的研究人员在利用新机遇或塑造新兴网络基础设施相关部分的未来发展方面准备不足。博士后在生物学和HPS方面的培训，以及他在国家科学基金会资助的胚胎项目上的工作，使他对即将到来的HPS数字时代的可能性和挑战有了独特的看法。有了奖学金，他将花时间在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的海洋生物实验室以及柏林的马克斯普朗克科学史研究所与计算机科学家和信息学家一起培训。他将获得与开发这种网络基础设施相关的新技能，然后将在胚胎项目的背景下进行测试和实施。这项专业培训奖学金将超越支持HPS的研究，因为所开发的工具和技术将对整个数字人文学科做出重大贡献。向众多不同的用户群体展示HPS相关的结果和信息也具有巨大的教育和推广可能性，这取决于一个高度发达的网络基础设施，以将这些学术内容传递给学生、政策制定者、法官和感兴趣的公众。

The project is designed to address simultaneously the need of acquiring additional professional experience in informatics in order to advance research in the history and philosophy of science (HPS) and to open up new areas of research and investigation at the intersection of these two areas. As more and more texts, images, and archival sources become available in digital form, history and philosophy of science, and the humanities more generally, are now experiencing a transformation similar to the life sciences during the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century. While these trends are inevitable, researchers in these areas are ill-prepared to take advantage of the new opportunities or to shape the future development of relevant parts of the emerging new cyberinfrastructure. The post-doc's training in biology and HPS, as well as his work on the NSF funded Embryo Project, has given him a unique perspective on the possibilities and challenges of the upcoming digital era in HPS. With the fellowship he will spend time training with computer scientists and informaticians at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, as well as the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He will acquire new skills related to developing this cyberinfrastructure, which will then be tested and implemented in the context of the Embryo Project. This professional training fellowship will go beyond supporting research in HPS as the tools and techniques developed will contribute substantially to the digital humanities at large. Presenting HPS related results and information to a multitude of different user groups has enormous educational and outreach possibilities as well, and this depends on a substantially developed cyber-infrastructure to deliver this scholarly content to students, policy makers, judges, and the interested public.