RAPID: Stakeholder Alignment for EarthCube

大规模协作科学的重要性与日俱增，但指导这些多方利益相关者努力的创建和运作的经验证据相对较少。以前关于劳资关系和组织研究中利益相关者一致性的社会科学研究现在才开始应用于科学联盟。初步结果表明，社会科学工具和方法可以在实现协调的、跨组织的协调一致方面发挥关键作用。用于识别利益相关者、评估兴趣和可视化一致性的新技术正在开始出现，但需要进一步改进。这是一个有时间限制的应用利益相关者对齐方法的示范案例，最初是在国家科学基金会关于“社会技术系统中的利益相关者对齐”的研究(国家科学基金会-VOSS 0956472)下提出的。本案例将展示复杂系统中的利益相关者更好地可视化和分析核心利益(共同利益和冲突利益)的新方法，以便更快、更全面地实现理解和行动所需的一致性。预计这些方法的这种应用将突出需要进一步测量、验证和增强的领域。NSF EarthCube倡议代表了一种快速开发社区引导的网络基础设施的新方法，以整合数据和信息，用于整个地球科学的知识管理。优化这些活动将需要深入了解利益相关者的利益，包括调整点(或错调点)。该项目将确定EarthCube利益相关者及其利益，并开发、管理和分析初步利益相关者一致性调查的结果，以在计划于6月召开的社区会议之前评估EarthCube网络基础设施、地球科学和计算机科学社区的状况。对这项调查的及时反馈将是整个EarthCube工作成功的关键，并能够在EarthCube过程从不同的社区移动到初始组织新兴跨学科团队和最终社区整合的过程中对变化进行纵向分析。假设利益相关者对齐在社区联合和团队发展中发挥重要作用，并影响成功定义系统需求和构建原型的可能性。该项目提供了一个机会来测试创新的利益相关者调整技术对新兴地球科学、网络基础设施和计算机科学伙伴关系的适用性，这些伙伴关系侧重于开发共享研究数据的共同框架。改进的利益相关者调整将大大提高EarthCube的成功和影响。由此产生的网络基础设施将在地球科学涉及的领域创造价值并降低风险。此外，基于这一示范案例，应用于广泛的NSF投资可能是合适的。这些利益相关者协调的工具和方法代表着在我们的社会机构中潜在的高影响力的推动者，在一个加速变革的时代变得更加重要。

Large-scale collaborative science is of increasing importance, but relatively little empirical evidence is available to guide the creation and operation of these multi-stakeholder efforts. Previous social science research on stakeholder alignment in industrial relations and organizational studies is only now beginning to be applied to scientific consortia. Early results indicate that social science tools and methods can play a key role in enabling coordinated, cross-organizational alignment. New techniques for identifying stakeholders, assessing interests, and visualizing alignment are beginning to emerge, but require additional refinement. This is a time-bound, demonstration case for applying stakeholder alignment methods initially advanced under the NSF study of 'Stakeholder Alignment in Socio-Technical Systems' (NSF-VOSS 0956472). This case will demonstrate new ways for stakeholders in complex systems to better visualize and analyze core interests (common and conflicting) in order to more quickly and more comprehensively achieve the alignment needed for understanding and action. It is anticipated that this application of the methods will highlight needed areas for further instrumentation, validation, and enhancement.The NSF EarthCube initiative represents a novel approach to rapid development of community-guided cyber infrastructure to integrate data and information for knowledge management across the Geosciences. Optimizing these activities will require a deep understanding of stakeholder interests, including points of alignment (or misalignment). This project will identify EarthCube stakeholders and their interests and develop, administer, and analyze the results of an initial stakeholder alignment survey to assess the state of the EarthCube cyber infrastructure, geoscience, and computer science communities prior to the planned June community meeting. Timely feedback on this survey will be central to the success of the overall EarthCube effort, and enable longitudinal analysis of changes as the EarthCube process moves from separate communities, through the initial organization of emergent interdisciplinary teams and eventual community integration. Stakeholder alignment is hypothesized to play an important role in community coalescence and team development and to affect the likelihood of successfully defining system requirements and building prototypes. This project provides an opportunity to test the applicability of innovative stakeholder alignment techniques to emerging geo-sciences, cyber infrastructure and computer science partnerships focused on developing common frameworks for sharing research data.Improved stakeholder alignment will substantially enhance the success and impact of EarthCube. The resulting cyber infrastructure will create value and mitigate risk in domains touched by the geosciences. Further, based on this demonstration case, applications to a wide range of NSF investments may be appropriate. These tools and methods for stakeholder alignment represent potentially high impact enablers across our societal institutions that are of ever greater importance in an era of accelerating change.