SCC-Planning: vSmart Connections for for Conserving and Catalyzing Cultural Community Resources

许多美国城镇和社区拥有在社区生活中发挥重要作用的历史和文化资源；佛蒙特州就是一个典型的例子。保存和保护这些资源的现有遗产支持系统（例如，地方和区域非营利组织，地方和州政府的公共项目，以及通过保护解决住房、土地使用规划和智能增长问题的广泛监管基础）构成了重大的技术和社会挑战。例如，工程技术应用于历史基础设施（例如，文化遗址，老化的建筑，材料和结构）提出了许多独特的挑战，很少被美国工程项目解决。了解保护文化资源所带来的限制，将使工程师更好地为21世纪老龄化基础设施的挑战做好准备。反过来，佛蒙特州的文化资源网络（CRN）将受益于先进的技术和工程专业知识，这在很大程度上是未开发的。我们的目标是催化目前关心佛蒙特州文化资源的社区网络，并将它们与工程专业知识网络（ETN）和智能技术连接起来，将佛蒙特州作为一个活生生的实验室。我们将召开两次规划研讨会，以加深对这两个部门的了解和认识，以及它们所面临的挑战。该项目将为支持佛蒙特州历史基础设施的合作和联系以及支持这些关系的政策提供科学见解。该项目还将为历史和文化资源提供非侵入性测试和数据收集工具，这些工具可以在其他社区复制。最后，将对社区网络（ETN和CRN）的变化进行评估，以便项目中获得的知识可以为其他社区提供支持。本项目的长期智力价值包括：(1)执行智能分析（例如，网络分析），以确定社区联系和合作的演变、关键特征和潜在的治理政策，以帮助增强网络功能；(2)建设一个智能移动设施，为有需要的社区提供高科技、无损检测技术和数字化、记录和可视化特定地点文化资源的新方法；(3)评估现有的和拨款后的社区网络（ETN和CRN），以便随后将利益转移并扩大到其他地区。拟议的规划赠款研讨会和长期教育培训计划将增强这两个部门面临的理解、赞赏和挑战。更广泛的影响将使工程师和(1)CRN代表一起催化佛蒙特州现有的文化资源网络；(2)为本科和研究生水平的工程课程提供新的教育视角（如培训模块）；(3)相关的教育努力（如保存工程证书）；(4)推广和技术转让（如低成本应用的高科技设备移动设施）。拟议的网络分析和相关评估被视为整合两个社区网络的关键组成部分。这项研究自然建立在佛蒙特大学复杂系统成功的跨学科倡议的基础上；设想开发新的方法来模拟这个复杂的社会技术系统，以保护佛蒙特州及其他地区的文化资源。

Many U.S. towns, cities, and communities have historic and cultural resources that play significant roles in community life; Vermont is, a leading example. The existing heritage support systems for preserving and protecting these resources (e.g. local and regional nonprofits, public programs housed in local and state governments, and extensive regulatory underpinnings that address housing, land use planning, and smart growth through preservation) pose significant technical and social challenges. For example, engineering technology applied to historic infrastructure (e.g., cultural sites, aging buildings, materials and structures) presents a number of unique challenges seldom addressed by U.S. engineering programs. Exposure to the constraints imposed by preserving cultural resources will better prepare engineers for the 21st century challenges of the aging infrastructure. In turn, the cultural resources network (CRN) in Vermont would benefit from advanced technologies and engineering expertise, which are largely untapped. Our goal is to catalyze the community networks currently caring for Vermont's cultural resources, and connect them with a network of engineering expertise (ETN) and smart technologies using Vermont as a living laboratory. Two planning workshops will be convened to enhance the understanding, appreciation, and challenges facing both sectors. The project will yield scientific insights into the collaborations and connections that support historic infrastructure in Vermont, as well as policies that support these relationships. The project also will yield tools for non-invasive testing and data collection for historic and cultural resources that can be replicated in other communities. Finally, an assessment of changes in the community networks (ETN and CRN) will be explored so that knowledge gained in the project can support other communities. The longer-term intellectual merit of this project includes (1) performing smart analytics (e.g., network analysis) to identify the evolution of community connections and cooperation, the key features, and potential governance policies to help enhance network functioning; (2) building a smart mobile facility that provides high-tech, non-destructive testing technologies and new methods for digitizing, documenting, and visualizing site-specific cultural resources to communities in need; and (3) assessment of the existing and post-grant community networks (ETN and CRN) so that benefits can then be transferred and scaled to other regions. Both the proposed planning grant workshops and longer-term educational training programs will enhance the understanding, appreciation, and challenges facing both sectors. The broader impacts will bring engineers and (1) the CRN representatives together to catalyze the existing network of cultural resources in Vermont; (2) provides a new educational perspective (e.g., training modules) for undergraduate and graduate level engineering curricula, and (3) associated educational efforts (e.g. certificate in preservation engineering), and (4) outreach and technology transfer (e.g. mobile facilities with high-tech equipment for low-cost applications). The proposed network analysis and associated assessments are viewed as key components for integrating the two community networks. This research builds naturally on the successful transdisciplinary initiative in Complex Systems at the University of Vermont; envisions the development of new approaches in modeling this complex sociotechnical system for the purpose of preserving cultural resources in Vermont and beyond.