INSPIRE: A Digital HPS Infrastructure for Understanding Biodiversity

INSPIRE奖部分由美国社会、行为和经济科学局社会和经济科学部的科学、技术和社会项目资助；以及生物科学理事会生物基础设施部生物信息学进展项目。这将是科学与技术研究领域的第一个大规模计算项目。虽然这个项目的重点是生物多样性和科学史和哲学，但这种方法将远远超出这些领域。该项目将建立一个基于计算工具和数字资源的存储库和研究系统，并将开发教育和培训模块。其目标是超越分散在各个地方的个人计算机上的独立的小型收藏，并将研究对象以及对这些对象的学术解释汇集在一起。为了提高效率，也为了刺激新的研究和发现，这些材料应该是公开的。该资源库将连接到现有的大型和广泛使用的数据库，如生物多样性遗产图书馆和生命百科全书。亚利桑那州立大学和海洋生物实验室的研究人员将合作，将结合历史和科学哲学、信息学和生物多样性生物学的强有力的综合方法结合在一起。它将改变该领域的学术研究和培训方式，并导致一种基于开放获取出版的新型科学史。该资源库、工具和培训模块将广泛用于科学与技术研究的其他项目，涵盖所有STEM学科。潜在的更广泛的影响该项目将产生学术成果、知识库、信息学工具和培训手册，供其他人定制和贡献他们自己的项目。学术成果将通过不同的网站提供给不同的用户群体，从专业学者到更广泛的公众。对于教育工作者和学生来说，该项目将与亚利桑那州立大学的“问一个生物学家”项目、生命百科全书和生物多样性遗产图书馆以及其他现有的数据库连接起来。本科生和研究生将接受培训，撰写解释性文章。信息学培训课程、手册和其他教育方法将使系统和存储库广泛可用。

This INSPIRE award is partially funded by the Science, Technology, and Society Program in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences; and by the Advances in Biological Informatics Program in the Division of Biological Infrastructure in the Directorate for Biological Sciences.Intellectual MeritThis will be the first large scale computational project in Science and Technology Studies. Although the focus of this project is on Biodiversity and on History and Philosophy of science, the approach would extend well beyond these areas. The project will establish a repository and a research system based on computational tools and digital sources, and it will develop education and training modules. The goal is to move beyond separate small collections that reside on individual computers in dispersed places, and bring together the objects of study as well as scholarly interpretations of those objects. The materials are to be openly available for efficiency and also to stimulate new kinds of research and discovery. The repository will link to existing large and widely-used databases such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Encyclopedia of Life. Researchers at Arizona State University and the Marine Biological Laboratory will collaborate in bringing together the robustly integrative methods that combine history and philosophy of science, informatics, and biology of biodiversity. It will transform the way that scholarship and training is done in the areas, and lead to a new kind of scientific history based in open access publishing. The repository, tools, and training modules will be widely available for other projects in Science and Technology Studies for the full range of STEM disciplines. Potential Broader ImpactsThis project will produce scholarly results, a repository, informatics tools, and training manuals for others to customize and contribute their own projects. Scholarly results are to be produces that would be available through different websites for multiple user groups, from specialized scholars to the wider public. For educators and students, the project will connect with Arizona State University's Ask A Biologist project, as well as to Encyclopedia of Life and the Biodiversity Heritage Library, and to other existing databases. Undergraduate and Graduate students will be trained to contribute interpretive articles. Informatics Training courses, manuals, and other educational approaches will make the system and repository available widely.