SI2-SSE: Developing Sustainable Software Elements to Support the Growing Field of Public Participation in Scientific Research

SI2-SSE：开发可持续软件元素以支持不断增长的公众参与科学研究领域

• 批准号: 1339707
• 负责人: Gregory Newman
• 金额: $ 49.31万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-11-01 至 2016-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1339707&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SI2; SSE; Developing; Sustainable; Software

Across the globe, citizen science projects are becoming increasingly poised to address social and environmental challenges and answer broad scientific questions. Although rapidly increasing in number, these projects need easy-to-use software tools for data management, analysis, and visualization to be successful. This project transforms how citizen science projects unfold locally, regionally, and globally by creating software that supports the full spectrum of project activities. It empowers projects to ask and answer their own local questions while contributing data critical to larger-scale issues. These tools will allow projects to announce training events; track volunteers; create datasheets; enter, review, analyze, and visualize data; publish reports; discover resources; integrate data; and ensure that data are contributed to repositories (e.g., DataONE, NEON, GBIF, HydroShare, and EOL). Tools will be made available to citizen science projects and will be delivered as reusable software elements for use in existing websites; as website features on CitSci.org; and as Application Programming Interface (API) services and mobile applications. The tools will expand the national reach, local appeal, computational abilities, visualization techniques, statistical analysis capabilities, and interoperability of the nations? cyber-infrastructure. Using participatory design and agile methods, the project will: (1) develop reusable software elements that citizen science organizations can embed into their own websites, (2) harden and expand the functionality and capabilities of CitSci.org through new website features, and (3) extend the APIs of CitSci.org and develop associated mobile applications to increase system and tool interoperability. The target user communities will include citizen science project coordinators. It will deliver customizable tools and services related to all project activities and engage projects across a wide array of disciplines. Project coordinators will be able to customize all tools developed to suit their specific project needs. Adoption and use of the tools developed will create a cyber-ready workforce capable of collecting, contributing, and applying high quality ecological, geophysical, social, and human health related observations to solve real-world problems. These broader impacts will help the citizen science community better understand effective models of public engagement to ensure more impactful application of citizen science to societal challenges.

在全球范围内，公民科学项目越来越倾向于解决社会和环境挑战并回答广泛的科学问题。尽管数量迅速增加，但这些项目需要易于使用的软件工具来进行数据管理、分析和可视化才能取得成功。该项目通过创建支持全方位项目活动的软件，改变了公民科学项目在本地、区域和全球范围内开展的方式。它使项目能够提出并回答自己的本地问题，同时提供对更大规模问题至关重要的数据。这些工具将允许项目宣布培训活动；追踪志愿者；创建数据表；输入、审查、分析和可视化数据；发布报告；发现资源；整合数据；并确保数据贡献到存储库（例如 DataONE、NEON、GBIF、HydroShare 和 EOL）。工具将提供给公民科学项目，并将作为可重复使用的软件元素提供，供现有网站使用；作为 CitSci.org 上的网站特色；以及应用程序编程接口 (API) 服务和移动应用程序。这些工具将扩大国家影响力、当地吸引力、计算能力、可视化技术、统计分析能力和国家的互操作性？网络基础设施。使用参与式设计和敏捷方法，该项目将：(1) 开发可重用的软件元素，公民科学组织可以将其嵌入到自己的网站中，(2) 通过新的网站功能强化和扩展 CitSci.org 的功能和能力，以及（ 3) 扩展 CitSci.org 的 API 并开发相关的移动应用程序，以提高系统和工具的互操作性。目标用户社区将包括公民科学项目协调员。它将提供与所有项目活动相关的可定制工具和服务，并参与跨广泛学科的项目。项目协调员将能够定制开发的所有工具，以满足其特定的项目需求。采用和使用所开发的工具将创建一支网络就绪的劳动力队伍，能够收集、贡献和应用高质量的生态、地球物理、社会和人类健康相关的观测结果来解决现实世界的问题。这些更广泛的影响将帮助公民科学界更好地了解公众参与的有效模式，以确保公民科学更有效地应用于应对社会挑战。