SCC-VO: Community First: A Smart and Connected Communities Virtual Organization

NSF的旗舰智能和互联社区（S CC）计划于2016年启动，旨在通过有意义的社区参与和合作来支持技术和社会层面的研究进展。S CC计划现在已经达到了一个点，虚拟组织（VO）对于进一步催化这个新的跨学科领域的快速发展至关重要。该项目的中心目标是通过创建一个新的S CC-VO来加速智能和互联社区领域中不同学科的融合。S CC-VO将（i）促进和促进S CC主要研究人员及其团队（包括社区合作伙伴）之间的互动和交流;（ii）与更广泛的科学和非学术社区（如当地社区利益相关者）共享S CC项目产生的文物和知识;（iii）促进和促进S CC研究人员，社区利益相关者和其他人之间的合作和信息交流。该S CC-VO将通过跨越学术界，政府，行业，特别是社区组织的伙伴关系，在S CC领域推进知识和学习。该项目将创建和维护一个基于网络的存储库和协作平台，以促进S CC研究人员，利益相关者和更广泛的社区之间的研究成果，工具，数据集和教育材料的探索和开放交流。为了增加对发现的访问，虚拟组织将允许使用共享分类来管理内容，以便可以从传统上分离的域中找到关键数据，工具和发现。活跃的资源将允许专家和非专家轻松访问数据集，工具链和研究工件。通过在可配置的、按需的基础上构建功能，通过审核内容，以及通过最终将VO保持为受社区评估、反馈和审查的有影响力的社区驱动型组织，可以访问可操作的信息。学术，政府，行业，非营利组织和其他利益相关者的外联活动将在S CC-VO内并通过社区参与会议提供便利。年度SCC PI会议上的SCC社区论坛和CPS-IoT周进一步为技术和社会层面的配对和参与机制创造了机会。该S CC-VO将成为一个非常有效的工具，以扩大不同的和脆弱的社区，基层组织和志愿者团体参与研究计划。开放和实现对研究主题、团队机会、数据集、工具链和其他研究工件的访问，消除了进入研究领域的高门槛，通过开放访问提高了公平性，并使最需要S CC结果的领域形成了有竞争力的项目&。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

NSF’s flagship Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) program was launched in 2016 to support research advances in technological and social dimensions with meaningful community engagement and collaboration. The S&CC program has now reached a point where a virtual organization (VO) is essential to further catalyze the rapid evolution of this new cross-disciplinary field. The central goal of this project is to accelerate convergence of diverse disciplines in the smart and connected communities domain through the creation of a new S&CC-VO. The S&CC-VO will (i) facilitate and foster interaction and exchanges among S&CC principal investigators and their teams, including community partners; (ii) enable sharing of artifacts and knowledge generated by S&CC projects with the broader scientific and non-academic communities such as local community stakeholders; and (iii) facilitate and foster collaboration and information exchange between S&CC researchers, community stakeholders, and others. The S&CC-VO will advance knowledge and learning in the S&CC field through partnerships spanning academia, government, industry, and especially, community organizations. The project will create and maintain a web-based repository and collaborative platform to facilitate the exploration and open exchange of research results, tools, datasets and educational materials among S&CC researchers, stakeholders, and the broader community. To increase access to discoveries, the virtual organization will allow curating content with shared taxonomies so critical data, tools, and discoveries can be found from traditionally separated domains. Active resources will allow easy access to explore datasets, toolchains, and research artifacts for experts and non-experts alike. Actionable information will be made accessible by building out features in a configurable, as-needed basis, by moderating content, and by ultimately keeping the VO as an impactful community driven organization subject to community evaluation, feedback, and review. Outreach activities for academic, government, industry, non-profits, and other stakeholders will be facilitated within the S&CC-VO and through community engagement sessions. The S&CC Community Forum at the annual S&CC PI Meeting, and CPS-IoT Week further create opportunities for matchmaking and mechanisms for engagement along both technological and social dimensions. The S&CC-VO will become a highly effective tool for broadening participation of diverse and vulnerable communities, grass-roots organizations, and volunteer groups in research programs. Opening up and enabling access to research topics, teaming opportunities, datasets, toolchains, and other research artifacts eliminates the high threshold to entering the research field, improves equity by open access, and enables the formation of competitive projects in areas that need S&CC results the most.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.