Workshop: Wikisym 2012 Doctoral Research Consortium

这是一个由大约8名来自美国的有前途的研究生组成的博士联盟（研讨会）（也可能有一些国际与会者），以及一个由大约5名杰出的研究教师导师组成的小组。该活动将紧接8月27日至29日在奥地利林茨举行的第八届国际ACM wiki与开放协作研讨会（Wikisym 2012）。Wikisym是一个领先的国际论坛，汇集了致力于开放合作和维基式社会技术系统的研究人员、实践者和企业家。开放协作的主题是研究开源软件和社区(如Wikipedia、Yahoo！答案，Slashdot和Digg。这样的系统已经展示了通过创建技术所获得的力量，这些技术能够使大量分布的人协同创建具有持久价值的工件。维基百科每年大约有来自世界各地的100人参加；在本次会议上提出的研究成果存档在ACM数字图书馆，并在近年来越来越多地被引用时，在这一领域的工作。维基百科博士联盟的目标是：建立一个新研究人员的队列小组，然后他们将有一个遍布世界各地的同事网络；通过其研究领域专家的建议指导新研究人员的工作；对研究课题的选择给予鼓励和支持；说明开放合作领域研究的相互关系和多样性，并确定部署和现场评估的合适机会；并使有前途的新人有可能参加他们所在领域的主要研究会议，并获得愉快和有益的经历，从而鼓励他们在未来参加会议。更广泛的影响:WikiSym博士联盟在过去几年中成功地吸引了一个国际和跨学科的学生群体，将最优秀的下一代研究人员聚集在一起进行开放合作，并允许他们在自己之间以及与高级研究人员建立一个社会网络。在他们专业发展的关键阶段提供指导和专家反馈（在联盟期间，每个学生都要正式介绍他或她的博士研究）。学生参与者通常来自广泛的专业和学科，包括计算机科学、信息、通信和社会学。他们与导师建立联系，这些导师往往在活动结束后仍能提供帮助；他们的多样性使他们能够分享广泛的研究视角，并在共同感兴趣的主题下学习不同的研究方法。组织者将明确地确定并包括尽可能广泛的高素质参与者群体，这样学生和教师参与者将构成一个跨越各种维度的多元化群体，这将有助于拓宽学生的视野，为该领域的未来带来好处。根据CISE关于资助在国外举办的活动的政策，PI已经保证NSF的资金将只用于支持在美国注册研究生课程的学生的参与。

This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) of approximately 8 promising graduate students from the United States (with perhaps some international attendees as well), along with a panel of about 5 distinguished research faculty mentors. The event will take place immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 8th International ACM Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (Wikisym 2012), which will be held August 27-29 in Linz, Austria. Wikisym is the leading international forum for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs working on open collaboration and wiki-style socio-technical systems. The topic of open collaboration is the study of the forms of collaboration found in open source software and communities such as Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers, Slashdot, and Digg. Such systems have shown the power to be gained from creating technologies that enable large distributed groups of people to collaboratively create artifacts of lasting value. Wikisym is attended each year by approximately 100 people from around the world; research presented at this conference is archived in the ACM Digital Library, and has been increasingly cited in recent years when referring to work in this area.The goals of the Wikisym Doctoral Consortium are: to build a cohort group of new researchers who will then have a network of colleagues spread out across the world; to guide the work of the new researchers through advice from experts in their research field; to provide encouragement and support for the selection of research topics; to illustrate the interrelationship and diversity of research in the open collaboration area, and identify suitable opportunities for deployment and field evaluation; and to make it possible for promising newcomers to participate in the leading research conference in their field and to have an enjoyable and rewarding experience, thereby encouraging them to attend the conference in the future.Broader Impacts: The WikiSym Doctoral Consortium has been successful in past years in attracting an international and interdisciplinary student constituency, bringing together the best of the next generation of researchers in open collaboration and allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers, who provide mentorship and expert feedback at a critical stage in their professional development (during the Consortium each student makes a formal presentation about his or her doctoral research). Student participants typically come from a wide range of programs and disciplines, including computer science, information, communication and sociology. They build ties to mentors that are often helpful beyond the time of the event; their diversity allows them to share broad research perspectives and learn about heterogeneous approaches to research under a shared topic of interest. The organizers will try explicitly to identify and include the broadest possible group of highly qualified participants, so that the student and faculty participants will constitute a diverse group across a variety of dimensions, which will help broaden the students' horizons to the future benefit of the field. In accordance with CISE policy relating to funding of events held abroad, the PI has provided assurance that NSF funds will be used solely to support participation by students enrolled in graduate programs in the United States.