VOSS: Flexible Research Infrastructure: A Comparative Study

VOSS：灵活的研究基础设施：比较研究

• 批准号: 1637094
• 负责人: David Ribes
• 金额: $ 21.11万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-02-04 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1637094&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VOSS; Flexible; Research; Infrastructure; Comparative

Using ethnographic and archival methods, this study will develop a comparative case analysis of two successful long-term cyberinfrastructures that have been supporting scientific research for nearly thirty years, in ecology and medical science: the Long-term Ecological Research Network (LTER) and the Multi-Center AIDS Cohort Study (MACS). Archival research will provide a backdrop to current events that will be investigated ethnographically. The project addresses a significant gap in comparative studies of infrastructure, refocusing attention on the implications of the always-changing technologies, sociotechnical-organization, and institutional environments that make up contemporary research infrastructures. The central research questions is: How are "old organizations" renewing themselves to sustain value for "new science"? By investigating the past and present of cyberinfrastructures that have weathered many transformations, this research seeks to inform future cyberinfrastructure development efforts. The findings will identify successful "strategies of the long-term" -- organizational forms and methods of design with a track-record of facilitating responsiveness to change. These insights will be a contribution to the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS), science policy, organization science, and the sociotechnical design of research infrastructure.The purpose of this research is to understand the challenges that long-term scientific organizations face over time, and the strategies they employ to manage these challenges. The development of scientific research infrastructure is central to the NSF?s vision of science; however there has as yet been little or sporadic empirical attention to the dynamics of flexible long-term infrastructure in the face of changing social organization, information technology (IT) and scientific interests. This research will fill that gap, contributing to new, practical, and boundary-spanning knowledge about the characteristics of infrastructure in the making and over the long-term. This project will inform efforts to build more open, effective, and sustainable cyberinfrastructure in the sciences, leading to smarter and more sustainable investment and design choices on the part of cyberinfrastructure project leaders, participants, tool builders, and funders. This research will also inform science policy and regulatory environments, to help foster a sustainable and productive research infrastructure across multiple fields of inquiry.

使用民族志和档案方法，本研究将对两种成功的Cyber​​inFrastructures进行比较案例分析，这些案例分析在生态和医学科学领域已经支持了近三十年的科学研究：长期生态研究网络（LTER）和多中心艾滋病队列研究（MACS）。档案研究将为当前事件提供民族志调查的时事提供背景。 该项目解决了基础设施比较研究的一个重大差距，重新关注了构成当代研究基础设施的始终改变技术，社会技术组织和制度环境的含义。 中心研究问题是：“旧组织”如何更新自己以维持“新科学”的价值？通过调查已经风化许多转型的网络基础设施的过去和现在，该研究旨在为未来的网络基础设施发展工作提供信息。 这些发现将确定成功的“长期策略” - 组织形式和设计方法，并具有促进对变革的响应能力的痕迹。 这些见解将为科学技术研究领域（STS），科学政策，组织科学和研究基础设施的社会技术设计做出贡献。这项研究的目的是了解长期科学组织面临的挑战时间，以及他们采用的策略来应对这些挑战。科学研究基础设施的发展是NSF科学愿景的核心；然而，面对不断变化的社会组织，信息技术（IT）和科学利益，对灵活的长期基础设施的动态几乎没有或零星的经验关注。这项研究将填补这一空白，有助于对基础设施在制造中和长期发展的特征的新，实用和边界的知识。 该项目将为您在科学中建立更开放，有效和可持续的网络基础设施的努力，从而导致Cyber​​infrasture项目领导者，参与者，工具建设者和资助者更聪明，更可持续的投资和设计选择。 这项研究还将为科学政策和监管环境提供依据，以帮助跨越多个探究领域的可持续和生产性研究基础设施。