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中心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、交流和使用。这些对北极科学的贡献对于了解该地区的土著人民和社区如何观察，理解和应对数千年来被占领的领土景观的快速环境和社会变化至关重要。该合作奖项支持Rankka与阿拉斯加，加拿大，格陵兰岛，北方和俄罗斯的合作伙伴合作，以确保以社区为基础的研究和观测信息得到保护和保存，同时也使北极居民，研究人员，管理人员和政策制定者可访问，可使用。该项目将建设社区一级的数据管理能力，开发数字化工具以存储和分享数据和知识，并确定如何更好地评价数据和知识的使用情况，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。该项目的合作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，土著人民是STEM领域代表性不足的少数民族。北极土著社区将与研究人员和北极土著社区合作，开发一个社区数据管理（CDM）系统，重点是提高社区数据的有用性。基于研究和观察，同时支持数据主权。作为四个目标中的第一个，联合国环境规划署将共同制定一个框架，以评估清洁发展机制数字数据基础设施的使用和有用性，方法是召集两个侧重于地名和长期观察的专题工作组。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增强功能。将对这些建议进行综合，以便为开发有用和可用的清洁发展机制应用程序建立一个框架。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，使社区数据对自然资源管理、土地使用规划、教学和课程开发、语言和文化保护以及长期观察北极变化更有用。第三，北极研究所将通过在合作伙伴社区提供培训，在北极科学会议和大会上提供小型研讨会，并在社区机构（包括学校，野生动物管理和猎人/收获者组织以及社区和区域规划办公室）中推广使用北极研究所开发的地图集和数据库，来建设数据管理和土著数据主权的能力。第四，该项目将共同制定和实施一个监测和评价框架，以指导项目评估和学习。& RISKKA将通过合作共享涉及土著知识和科学知识的数据和信息，为理解和推进知识共同生产做出贡献。一个土著共同制作知识领导小组将监督研究协议的制定、项目的实施和成果的传播。该项目的研究将推进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，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的支持。影响审查标准。

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.