SI2-SSE: Developing Sustainable Software Elements to Support the Growing Field of Public Participation in Scientific Research

在全球范围内，公民科学项目正变得越来越准备好应对社会和环境挑战，并回答广泛的科学问题。虽然这些项目的数量在迅速增加，但它们需要易于使用的软件工具来进行数据管理、分析和可视化，才能取得成功。该项目通过创建支持全方位项目活动的软件，改变了公民科学项目在当地、区域和全球展开的方式。它使项目能够提出和回答自己的本地问题，同时为更大规模的问题提供关键数据。这些工具将允许项目宣布培训活动；跟踪志愿者；创建数据表；输入、审查、分析和可视化数据；发布报告；发现资源；整合数据；并确保将数据提供给存储库(例如，DataONE、NEON、GBIF、Water Share和EOL)。这些工具将提供给公民科学项目，并将作为可重复使用的软件元素在现有网站上使用；作为CitSci.org上的网站功能；作为应用程序编程接口(API)服务和移动应用程序。这些工具将扩大国家的覆盖范围、地方吸引力、计算能力、可视化技术、统计分析能力和各国的互操作性？网络基础设施。利用参与式设计和灵活的方法，该项目将：(1)开发可重复使用的软件元素，公民科学组织可以将其嵌入到自己的网站中；(2)通过新的网站功能强化和扩展CitSci.org的功能和能力；(3)扩展CitSci.org的API并开发相关的移动应用程序，以提高系统和工具的互操作性。目标用户群体将包括公民科学项目协调员。它将提供与所有项目活动相关的可定制工具和服务，并使各种学科的项目参与进来。项目协调员将能够定制为适应其特定项目需要而开发的所有工具。采用和使用开发的工具将创造一支网络就绪的劳动力队伍，能够收集、贡献和应用与生态、地球物理、社会和人类健康相关的高质量观测，以解决现实世界的问题。这些更广泛的影响将帮助公民科学界更好地理解公共参与的有效模式，以确保公民科学更有效地应用于社会挑战。

Across the globe, citizen science projects are becoming increasingly poised to address social and environmental challenges and answer broad scientific questions. Although rapidly increasing in number, these projects need easy-to-use software tools for data management, analysis, and visualization to be successful. This project transforms how citizen science projects unfold locally, regionally, and globally by creating software that supports the full spectrum of project activities. It empowers projects to ask and answer their own local questions while contributing data critical to larger-scale issues. These tools will allow projects to announce training events; track volunteers; create datasheets; enter, review, analyze, and visualize data; publish reports; discover resources; integrate data; and ensure that data are contributed to repositories (e.g., DataONE, NEON, GBIF, HydroShare, and EOL). Tools will be made available to citizen science projects and will be delivered as reusable software elements for use in existing websites; as website features on CitSci.org; and as Application Programming Interface (API) services and mobile applications. The tools will expand the national reach, local appeal, computational abilities, visualization techniques, statistical analysis capabilities, and interoperability of the nations? cyber-infrastructure. Using participatory design and agile methods, the project will: (1) develop reusable software elements that citizen science organizations can embed into their own websites, (2) harden and expand the functionality and capabilities of CitSci.org through new website features, and (3) extend the APIs of CitSci.org and develop associated mobile applications to increase system and tool interoperability. The target user communities will include citizen science project coordinators. It will deliver customizable tools and services related to all project activities and engage projects across a wide array of disciplines. Project coordinators will be able to customize all tools developed to suit their specific project needs. Adoption and use of the tools developed will create a cyber-ready workforce capable of collecting, contributing, and applying high quality ecological, geophysical, social, and human health related observations to solve real-world problems. These broader impacts will help the citizen science community better understand effective models of public engagement to ensure more impactful application of citizen science to societal challenges.