CIC-E: COVID Information Commons Extension for Pandemic Recovery

COVID信息共享空间CIC（http：//covidinfocommons.columbia.edu/）于2020年5月通过NSF COVID快速反应研究（RAPID）奖项成立，以促进NSF资助的COVID研究工作的信息共享和合作。最初的重点是汇编来自NSF各部门资助的所有COVID相关项目的公开信息，以创建一个易于搜索的语料库。除了公开的信息外，CIC还通过自愿调查从项目中收集了自我报告信息。创建了一个网络研讨会系列，由NSF资助的COVID RAPID研究项目的研究人员进行演讲。CIC扩展将扩展CIC的这一初始工作，以包括NSF资助的与大流行恢复阶段有关的所有项目。此外，它还将努力纳入国家科学基金资助的新冠肺炎相关工作以外的公开信息，最初的信息中心工作清楚地表明了将各种新冠肺炎相关项目的信息汇集到一个地方的好处，从而使感兴趣的用户能够有效地搜索信息并发现各种工作之间的联系。这有助于促进社区的创建，并有助于促进合作。CIC扩展将延续这一理念，将疫情恢复阶段的项目纳入其中，并将进一步整合与信息互动的现代方式，例如通过使用语义搜索方法搜索和发现链接信息，以及使用领域本体和知识图谱机制。它将公共可用的信息沿着与NSF资助的COVID相关研究项目的自愿自我报告信息结合在一起，以便能够搜索和发现信息以及个人努力之间的合作。CIC已展示了在来自不同科学学科和来自全国不同地区的研究人员之间建立此类合作的早期成功，这些研究人员因对研究COVID大流行的共同兴趣而聚集在一起。通过将CIC的工作扩展到大流行恢复阶段，CIC扩展将覆盖更大和更多样化的COVID研究人员群体，并促进从事COVID相关研究的研究人员之间的联系。CIC扩展还将建立和扩展在这一努力的初始阶段发起的成功的研究网络研讨会系列和本科生参与计划。该奖项全部或部分由2021年美国救援计划法案资助（第117-2页）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评估被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。

The COVID Information Commons, CIC (http://covidinfocommons.datascience.columbia.edu/), was established in May 2020 via an NSF COVID Rapid Response Research (RAPID) award to facilitate information sharing and collaboration across NSF-funded COVID research efforts. The initial focus was on compiling publicly available information from all COVID-related projects funded by the various Directorates across NSF in order to create a easily searchable corpus. In addition to the publicly available information, the CIC also collected self-report information from the projects via a voluntary survey. A webinar series was created, featuring talks by researchers from the NSF-funded COVID RAPID research projects. The CIC Extension will extend this initial CIC effort to also include all projects funded by NSF related to the pandemic recovery phase. In addition, it will seek to include publicly available information on COVID-related efforts beyond those funded by the NSF.The initial CIC effort clearly demonstrated the benefits of bringing together information about a diverse set of COVID-related projects into a single place, thereby enabling interested users to efficiently search for information and discover linkages among diverse efforts. This helped foster the creation of a community and helped catalyze collaborations. The CIC Extension will carry forward this idea to include projects in the pandemic recovery phase, and will additionally incorporate contemporary ways of interacting with the information such as via search and discovery of linked information using semantic search methods, and the use of domain ontologies and knowledge graph mechanisms.Broader impact is central to the idea of the COVID Information Commons, which pulls together publicly available information along with voluntary self-report information on NSF-funded COVID-related research projects in order to enable search and discovery of information and collaborations among individual efforts. The CIC has demonstrated early successes in creating such collaborations among researchers from diverse scientific disciplines and from different parts of the country drawn together by their common interest in studying the COVID pandemic. By extending the CIC effort to the pandemic recovery phase, the CIC Extension will reach an even larger and more diverse community of COVID researchers and facilitate networking among researchers engaged in COVID-related research. The CIC Extension will also build upon and expand the successful research webinar series and undergraduate engagement programs initiated in the initial phase of this effort.This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).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.