SCC-Planning: vSmart Connections for for Conserving and Catalyzing Cultural Community Resources

SCC 规划：用于保护和促进文化社区资源的 vSmart 连接

• 批准号: 1737587
• 负责人: Donna Rizzo
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Vermont & State Agricultural College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1737587&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; Planning; vSmart; Connections; Conserving

Many U.S. towns, cities, and communities have historic and cultural resources that play significant roles in community life; Vermont is, a leading example. The existing heritage support systems for preserving and protecting these resources (e.g. local and regional nonprofits, public programs housed in local and state governments, and extensive regulatory underpinnings that address housing, land use planning, and smart growth through preservation) pose significant technical and social challenges. For example, engineering technology applied to historic infrastructure (e.g., cultural sites, aging buildings, materials and structures) presents a number of unique challenges seldom addressed by U.S. engineering programs. Exposure to the constraints imposed by preserving cultural resources will better prepare engineers for the 21st century challenges of the aging infrastructure. In turn, the cultural resources network (CRN) in Vermont would benefit from advanced technologies and engineering expertise, which are largely untapped. Our goal is to catalyze the community networks currently caring for Vermont's cultural resources, and connect them with a network of engineering expertise (ETN) and smart technologies using Vermont as a living laboratory. Two planning workshops will be convened to enhance the understanding, appreciation, and challenges facing both sectors. The project will yield scientific insights into the collaborations and connections that support historic infrastructure in Vermont, as well as policies that support these relationships. The project also will yield tools for non-invasive testing and data collection for historic and cultural resources that can be replicated in other communities. Finally, an assessment of changes in the community networks (ETN and CRN) will be explored so that knowledge gained in the project can support other communities. The longer-term intellectual merit of this project includes (1) performing smart analytics (e.g., network analysis) to identify the evolution of community connections and cooperation, the key features, and potential governance policies to help enhance network functioning; (2) building a smart mobile facility that provides high-tech, non-destructive testing technologies and new methods for digitizing, documenting, and visualizing site-specific cultural resources to communities in need; and (3) assessment of the existing and post-grant community networks (ETN and CRN) so that benefits can then be transferred and scaled to other regions. Both the proposed planning grant workshops and longer-term educational training programs will enhance the understanding, appreciation, and challenges facing both sectors. The broader impacts will bring engineers and (1) the CRN representatives together to catalyze the existing network of cultural resources in Vermont; (2) provides a new educational perspective (e.g., training modules) for undergraduate and graduate level engineering curricula, and (3) associated educational efforts (e.g. certificate in preservation engineering), and (4) outreach and technology transfer (e.g. mobile facilities with high-tech equipment for low-cost applications). The proposed network analysis and associated assessments are viewed as key components for integrating the two community networks. This research builds naturally on the successful transdisciplinary initiative in Complex Systems at the University of Vermont; envisions the development of new approaches in modeling this complex sociotechnical system for the purpose of preserving cultural resources in Vermont and beyond.

许多美国城镇，城市和社区都有历史和文化资源在社区生活中起着重要作用。佛蒙特州是一个领先的例子。现有的遗产支持系统，用于保存和保护这些资源（例如地方和区域非营利组织，本地和州政府中的公共计划以及广泛的监管基础，这些基金会涉及住房，土地使用计划以及通过保存通过保存来解决）构成重大的技术和社会挑战。 例如，适用于历史基础设施（例如文化站点，老化建筑物，材料和结构）的工程技术提出了美国工程计划很少解决的许多独特挑战。维护文化资源所施加的限制的暴露将更好地为工程师准备21世纪基础设施的挑战。反过来，佛蒙特州的文化资源网络（CRN）将受益于高级技术和工程专业知识，这些技术在很大程度上尚未开发。我们的目标是催化当前关心佛蒙特州文化资源的社区网络，并将它们与工程专业知识（ETN）网络（ETN）和智能技术联系起来。将召集两个计划研讨会，以增强两个部门面临的理解，欣赏和挑战。该项目将对支持佛蒙特州历史基础设施的合作和联系产生科学见解，以及支持这些关系的政策。该项目还将生产用于在其他社区中可以复制的历史和文化资源的非侵入性测试和数据收集的工具。最后，将探讨对社区网络（ETN和CRN）变化的评估，以便项目中获得的知识可以支持其他社区。 该项目的长期智力优点包括（1）执行智能分析（例如网络分析）来确定社区联系与合作的演变，关键特征以及潜在的治理政策，以帮助增强网络功能； （2）建立一个智能移动设施，该设施提供高科技，非破坏性测试技术和新方法，以数字化，记录和可视化特定网站的文化资源为有需要的社区； （3）评估现有和后授予后的社区网络（ETN和CRN），以便可以将福利转移并扩展到其他地区。拟议的计划赠款研讨会和长期教育培训计划都将增强两个部门面临的理解，欣赏和挑战。更广泛的影响将使工程师和（1）CRN代表聚集在一起，以催化佛蒙特州现有的文化资源网络； （2）为本科和研究生水平的工程课程提供了新的教育观点（例如，培训模块），以及（3）相关的教育工作（例如，保护工程证书），以及（4）外展和技术转移（例如，具有低成本应用的高科技设备的移动设施）。拟议的网络分析和相关评估被视为集成两个社区网络的关键组成部分。这项研究自然建立在佛蒙特大学复杂系统中成功的跨学科倡议上。设想开发新方法在建模这一复杂的社会技术系统中，目的是保存佛蒙特州及其他地区的文化资源。