CI-TEAM DEMO: Collaborative Research: An Online Community to Broaden Access to the Computational Research Enterprise

这个CI-TEAM示范项目的目的是利用CDI项目，通过将长期愿景与发展该社区的重点战略相结合，建立一个计算研究的在线社区。长期愿景是建立一个在线社区，本科生研究人员成为开展计算项目的关键劳动力。作为演示，该团队正在实现一个原型，将科学网关与工作流/出处管理系统连接起来，以支持计算、项目管理和数据管理。在线社区包括一个不断扩大的大学和超级计算中心，其中从HBCU和其他不同网站招募的本科生与研究小组远程合作。该项目将从卡内基梅隆大学的学生开始开始，并在第二年增加来自其他大学的研究小组。该社区将由肯特州立大学的材料数字图书馆（MatDL）托管，这是一个基于社区的计算项目的在线空间。这一示范项目所实现的长期愿景是利用网络基础设施，以既扩大参与又推进基础科学研究的方式重组科研事业。该结构通过向全国本科生提供高质量的研究经验，拓宽了学生的获取途径。它还扩大了其他人的参与，特别是包括在重视研究的机构中担任博士职位的博士，但高教学或行政负担阻碍了研究生产力。研究企业目前的结构非常有利于那些几乎可以把全部时间花在研究上的人，因此他们可以以竞争的速度从一个想法开始到发表。拟议的在线研究社区允许个人利用他们可用的时间做出有意义的贡献。目前的研究企业结构也有利于在高度活跃的研究环境中的个人，在这种环境中，与当地同事的合作可以帮助留住一个人。的研究是当前和重要的。拟议的社区为建立这种合作提供了更具包容性的机制。最后，目前的结构有利于那些在机构随时可以获得有才华的研究生和本科生的劳动力。拟议的社区部分解决了这一问题，允许所有专家招募本科生或其他新手参加研究项目。降低这些障碍有可能大大扩大可以参与计算研究的专家和新手的受众。这扩大了基础科学研究的劳动力，既通过汇集本科生的工作，在社区中发生的项目，并通过帮助培养未来的计算科学家。智力merit在这个示范项目中，网络基础设施将使技术和社会结构需要支持跨学科的团队，专家和新手远程合作的计算研究项目。这种虚拟项目团队的有效运作是实现长期愿景的关键因素，该愿景旨在重组科学研究企业，以扩大专家、新手和机构之间的接触和参与。这一长期愿景扩展了示范项目，以支持持续创建在线项目团队的包容性进程：实验人员张贴需要计算的问题;计算专家选择感兴趣的问题，自己进行计算或同意担任本科生和其他新手的导师;和新手签约，在专家导师的指导下完成指定的研究任务。更广泛的影响这个示范项目的目标是目前没有机会参与计算的本科生。研究项目，特别包括来自代表性不足群体的学生。PI预计，该项目的虚拟特性，减少了地理和时间障碍，同时增加了对资源和设施的访问，将邀请那些不参加更传统的本科生研究经验计划的学生，如NSF的本科生研究经验（雷乌斯），因为需要在夏季在当地工作。

The aim of this CI-TEAM Demonstration Project, leveraging a CDI project, is to build an online community for computational research, by coupling a long-term vision with a focused strategy for growing that community. The long-term vision is an online community in which undergraduate researchers become a key part of the workforce for carrying out computational projects. As a demonstration, this team is implementing a prototype bridging a scientific gateway with a workflow/provenance management system to support computation, project management, and data management. The online community includes an expanding group of universities and supercomputing centers, in which undergraduates, recruited from HBCUs and other diverse sites, work remotely with research groups. The project will begin with students from Carnegie Mellon University and add research groups from other universities in the second year. The community will be hosted by the Materials Digital Library (MatDL) at Kent State University, an online space for community-based computational projects. The long-term vision enabled by this demonstration project uses cyberinfrastructure to restructure the scientific research enterprise in a way that both broadens participation and advances fundamental scientific research. The structure broadens access for students by making high quality research experiences available to undergraduates nationwide. It also broadens participation for others, including especially PhDs in positions at institutions where research is valued, but where high teaching or administrative loads serve as a barrier to research productivity. The current structure of the research enterprise highly favors individuals who can spend nearly full time on research and so take an idea from inception to publication at a competitive pace. The proposed online research community allows individuals to make meaningful contributions with the time they have available. The current structure of the research enterprise also favors individuals in highly research active environments where collaborations with local colleagues can help keep an individual?s research current and vital. The proposed community provides more inclusive mechanisms for establishing such collaborations. Finally, the current structure favors those in institutions with ready access to a work force of talented graduate and undergraduate students. The proposed community partially addresses this by allowing all experts to recruit undergraduates or other novices to participate in research projects. Lowering these barriers has the potential to substantially broaden the audience of both experts and novices who can participate in computational research. This expands the workforce for fundamental scientific research, both by pooling undergraduate work for the projects occurring in the community and by helping train future computational scientists.Intellectual meritIn this demonstration project, cyberinfrastructure will enable both the technical and social constructs needed to support interdisciplinary teams in which experts and novices collaborate remotely on computational research projects. The efficient functioning of such virtual project teams is the key enabler for a long-term vision that restructures the scientific research enterprise to broaden access and participation across experts, novices, and institutions. This long-term vision extends the demonstrationproject to support an inclusive process for the continual creation of online project teams: experimentalists post problems which require computations; computational experts select problems of interest and either perform the calculations themselves or agree to serve as mentors for undergraduates and other novices; and novices sign on to complete specified research tasks under the guidance of expert mentors.Broader ImpactThis demonstration project targets undergraduates who do not currently have opportunities to participate in computational research projects, including especially students from under-represented groups. The PIs expect that the virtual character of this project, which reduces geographic and time barriers while increasing access to resources and facilities, will be inviting to students who do not participate in more traditional Undergraduate Research experience programs, such as NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REUs), because of needs to work locally during the summer.