POSE: Phase I: Building an Open-Source Civic Data Ecosystem

该项目由开放源代码生态系统之路（POSE）资助，旨在利用开放源代码开发的力量，为国家和社会重要问题创造新的技术解决方案。透明度，即获得有关某事的可靠或真实信息的容易程度，对于建立对政府的信任和追究领导人的责任至关重要。 就在15年前，全面知识档案网络（CKAN）开源数据管理软件开发出来，现在它为世界各地的开放数据和透明度计划提供了动力。 这包括Data.gov平台，这是美国政府的开放数据目录，使每个人都可以访问数十万个数据集。该项目制定了一项加强CKAN的计划，以便该软件能够继续为开放数据，开放政府和开放科学举措提供有效的平台。该项目的新颖性反映在研究团队用于吸引CKAN生态系统中的相关方以及公民数据实践社区的参与者的包容性战略中。该项目的影响包括推进CKAN民主、透明和包容的价值观，以及维持重要的开源公民数据基础设施。研究团队的成员计划绘制CKAN生态系统的现状，让团队成员能够可视化CKAN生态系统中的关系和流程。这张生态系统地图将作为一个指南，让不同的生态系统用户和贡献者参与对话和互动研讨会，以发现与生态系统增长和可持续性相关的问题。有待探讨的问题包括维护、为项目做出贡献的激励措施、加强CKAN用户与生态系统管理者之间的反馈机制，以及改善CKAN采用的环境。在通过访谈和研讨会收集到初步数据后，感兴趣的各方将通过旨在促进OSE可持续性计划的活动参与初步数据的分析。最终的计划将包括开发生态系统治理模型，将创新与核心CKAN产品整合的流程，并确保产品的竞争力和整体可持续性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project is funded by Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) which seeks to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. Transparency, how easy it is to get reliable or truthful information about something, is essential to building trust in the government and holding leaders accountable. Just over 15 years ago, the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) open-source data management software was developed, and it now powers open data and transparency initiatives around the world. This includes the Data.gov platform, the U.S. government’s open data catalog, which makes hundreds of thousands of datasets accessible to everyone. This project develops a plan to strengthen CKAN so that the software can continue to provide an effective platform for open data, open government, and open science initiatives. The project’s novelties are reflected in the inclusive strategy the research team uses to engage interested parties in the CKAN ecosystem, and participants in civic data communities of practice. The project’s impacts include advancing CKAN’s values of democracy, transparency, and inclusiveness, as well as sustaining a vital open-source civic data infrastructure.Members of the research team plan to map the current status of the CKAN ecosystem to allow the team members to visualize relationships and processes within the CKAN ecosystem. This ecosystem map will be used as a guide for engaging a diverse group of ecosystem users and contributors in conversations and interactive workshops to uncover issues related to growth and sustainability of the ecosystem. Issues to be explored include maintenance, incentives for contributing to the project, strengthening feedback mechanisms between CKAN users and ecosystem stewards, and improving the climate for CKAN adoption. After initial data are collected from the interviews and workshops, interested parties will participate in the analysis of the preliminary data through activities designed to contribute to a plan for OSE sustainability. The resulting plan will include developing an ecosystem governance model, processes for integrating innovation with the core CKAN product, and ensuring product competitiveness and overall sustainability of the product.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.