ELOKA Phase V: Collaborative Data Stewardship and Knowledge Mobilization for Arctic Community-Driven Research and Observing

北极地方观测和知识交流(ELOKA)与土著组织和研究人员合作，促进土著知识和社区观测的收集、保存、交流和利用。这些对北极科学的贡献对于了解该地区土著人民和社区如何观察、理解和应对其领土上被占领了数千年的快速环境和社会变化至关重要。这一协作性奖项支持Eloka与阿拉斯加、加拿大、格陵兰、北欧和俄罗斯的合作伙伴合作，确保社区研究和观测的信息得到保护和保存，同时使北极居民、研究人员、管理人员和政策制定者能够发现、访问和使用这些信息。该项目将在社区一级建设数据管理能力，开发存储和共享数据和知识的数字工具，并确定如何更好地评估数据和知识的使用，以满足管理和决策需求，例如与气候适应和社区规划、环境和野生动物管理以及文化和地方教育有关的需求。Eloka的合作项目活动将有助于改善土著人民的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)培训、教育和领导机会。在第五阶段，Eloka将与研究人员和北极土著社区合作开发社区数据管理(CDM)系统，重点是提高基于社区的研究和观察的有用性，同时支持数据主权。作为四个目标中的第一个目标，Eloka将通过召集两个专题工作组，重点讨论地名和长期观察，共同制定一个评估清洁发展机制数字数据基础设施的使用和有用性的框架。工作组成员将共同开发用例，以记录、检查和探索社区和其他最终用户如何使用数据管理工具的改进。这些都将被综合起来，以创建一个开发有用和可用的清洁发展机制应用程序的框架。第二，该项目将共同开发工具，包括增强的和新的数字应用程序，使社区数据在自然资源管理、土地利用规划、教学和课程开发、语言和文化保护以及对北极变化的长期观测中更有用。第三，Eloka将建设数据管理和土著数据主权的能力，在伙伴社区提供培训，在北极科学会议和会议上举办迷你讲习班，并在包括学校、野生动物管理和狩猎/收割机组织以及社区和区域规划办公室在内的社区机构推广使用Eloka开发的地图集和数据库。第四，该项目将共同开发和实施一个监测和评估(M&Amp；E)框架，以指导项目评估和学习。Eloka将通过合作共享数据和信息，促进土著知识和科学知识的合作，从而促进知识的共同生产。一个土著联合制作知识领导小组将监督研究方案的制定、项目的实施和成果的传播。Eloka研究将推动整个北极地区数据管理系统的社区驱动和用户知情设计实践，有可能为北极观测网络做出贡献，并显著改善预测、规划和适应，以应对加速的社会和环境变化。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) partners with Indigenous organizations and researchers to facilitate the collection, preservation, exchange, and use of Indigenous knowledge and community-based observations. These contributions to Arctic science are critical for understanding how the region’s Indigenous peoples and communities observe, understand, and respond to rapid environmental and social changes across their territorial landscapes that have been occupied for millennia. This collaborative award supports ELOKA’s work with partners in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, northern Europe, and Russia to ensure that information from community-based research and observing is protected and preserved while also made discoverable, accessible, and useful for Arctic residents, researchers, managers, and policy makers. This project will build data management capacity at the community level, develop digital tools to store and share data and knowledge, and identify ways to better evaluate the use of data and knowledge to address management and decision-making needs, for example, related to climate adaptation and community planning, environmental and wildlife management, and cultural and place-based education. ELOKA’s collaborative project activities will contribute to improved Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) training, education, and leadership opportunities for Indigenous peoples, an underrepresented minority in STEM.In its fifth phase, ELOKA will collaborate with researchers and Arctic Indigenous communities to develop a community data management (CDM) system focused on enhancing the usefulness of community-based research and observing while supporting data sovereignty. As the first of four goals, ELOKA will co-develop a framework to assess the use and usefulness of CDM digital data infrastructures by convening two thematic working groups focused on place names and long-term observing. Working group members will co-develop use cases to document, examine and explore enhancements for how data management tools are used by communities and other end users. These will be synthesized to create a framework for developing useful and usable CDM applications. Second, this project will co-develop tools, including enhanced and new digital applications, to make community data more usable and useful for natural resource management, land use planning, teaching and curriculum development, language and cultural preservation, and long-term observing of Arctic change. Third, ELOKA will build capacity for data stewardship and Indigenous data sovereignty by providing trainings in partner communities, offering mini workshops at Arctic science meetings and conferences, and extending the use of ELOKA-developed atlases and databases in community institutions, including schools, wildlife management and hunter/harvester organizations, and community and regional planning offices. Fourth, this project will co-develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework to guide project assessment and learning. ELOKA will contribute to understanding and advancing knowledge co-production through collaborative sharing of data and information that engages both Indigenous and scientific knowledge. An Indigenous co-production of knowledge leadership team will oversee the development of a research protocol, implementation of the project, and dissemination of results. ELOKA research will advance practices for community-driven and user-informed design of data management systems across the Arctic, with the potential to contribute to Arctic observing networks and to significantly improve prediction, planning and adaptation in the face of accelerating social and environmental change.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.