EAGER: An Exploration in Enabling Community-Driven Collaboration

在复杂数据的洪流中，当代信息技术对科学和社会的作用越来越重要。对生物科学的影响是显著的，其中生产的速度和数据的复杂性意味着大量的数据往往没有被数据生产者充分分析，然而研究人员期望这类数据的快速传播。为了确保有效的影响，一个有望实现转型的解决方案是向更广泛的社区开放“大数据”分析。现代信息技术以及互联网的爆炸性增长和民主化影响提供了一条途径，随着信息和通信的数字化，互联网改变了信息交换的步伐，为传播数据和使不同学科参与扩展的、富有成效的合作开辟了新的渠道。这样做的结果将是一个具有定制的预构建界面的平台，这将大大减少基于表单的数据输入方法的缺点。输入界面要小，易于使用，容易被用户接受，但仍然与用户可能想要输入的内容相关。该界面将为受控词汇提供强大的搜索能力，并根据对特定扩展最有效的方式，通过“输入提示”、下拉列表或自动完成向用户提供这些信息，并提供有效、易于遵循和精确的过程。维持自由文本输入部分将为用户提供最大程度的数据输入自由。通过网络访问使社区协作成为可能，并实现与知识收集接口相连接的数据库资源以及自由文本输入格式，该系统将为许多社区的研究人员提供一个场所，包括那些位于非研究密集型大学、社区学院和少数民族服务机构的研究人员，在美国和世界范围内。将他们的见解贡献给实验研究观察，目前需要昂贵的专业设备，只有在世界各地的几个中心才有。

Contemporary information technology is ever more central to science and society in the midst of the deluge of complex data. The impact on bioscience is notable, where the pace of production and the data complexity means that a large amount of data is often not adequately analyzed by the data producers, yet researchers expect rapid dissemination of such types of data. To ensure effective impact, a solution promising to be transformational is to open "big data" analysis to the broader community. An avenue is provided by modern IT and the explosive growth and democratizing impact of the Internet, which, following the digitization of information and communication, has changed the pace of information exchange and opens up new channels for disseminating data and for engaging disparate disciplines in extended, productive collaborations. The result of this will be a platform with a customized pre-build interface that will significantly reduce the downside of the form-based data input approach. The input interface will be small, easy to use and readily accepted by users but still relevant to what a user might want to input. The interface will provide strong search ability to the controlled vocabulary and provide users with this information through "input hint", dropdown lists or auto-completion, according to what is most efficient for the specific extension and provides an effective, readily followed and precise process. Sustaining the free text input section will provide users with maximum freedom of data input. By enabling community collaboration via Web access and implementing a database resource linked with the knowledge collection interface together with free text entry format, this system will provide a venue for researchers among many communities, including those located at non-research intensive universities, community colleges and minority-serving institutions, in this Nation and worldwide, to contribute their insight to experimental research observations that currently requires expensive specialized equipment only available in a few centers around the world.