RIDIR: Collaborative Research: cyberSW: A Data Synthesis and Knowledge Discovery System for Long-term Interdisciplinary Research on Southwest Social Change

RIDIR：协作研究：cyberSW：西南社会变革长期跨学科研究的数据合成和知识发现系统

• 批准号: 1738258
• 负责人: Barbara Mills
• 金额: $ 108.51万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 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: 2017-08-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738258&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RIDIR; Collaborative; Research; cyberSW; Data

AbstractThis project will create cyberSW, an integrated knowledge discovery system that will significantly enhance interdisciplinary research on long-term social change at decadal to centennial scales. The project will result in the data integration of millions of objects from tens of thousands of prehispanic settlements across the U.S. Southwest, making it one of the largest digital archaeological repositories in the world. A major challenge in using archaeological data is that most relevant information is not digitally curated or synthesized beyond individual projects. A number of recent synthesis projects in the U.S. Southwest show the great potential of these data for addressing big questions in the social sciences such as: What promotes the success or failure of some societies? How does migration transform social identities and create new social structures? And, what are the relationships between environmental challenges and social changes? We will build on these prior projects to produce an integrated system that will allow users at different levels of expertise to readily view, analyze, and export data on past societies in the Southwest to address these and many other questions relevant to contemporary society.Due to preservation and intensity of investigations, the U.S. Southwest has an unparalleled high quality archaeological record of human occupation and social change. Archaeological data are geospatially- and temporally-referenced and include variables such as population scale and movement, social diversity and inequality, technological innovations and diffusion, and climate. Through the creation of cyberSW the proposed project will realize the cumulative research potential of these data by (1) merging several existing synthetic databases into one scalable, networked digital repository; (2) collecting additional data to fill in spatial, temporal, and material culture gaps; (3) analyzing those data and creating user-friendly online tools for data analysis and visualization; and (4) establishing a web portal for data visualization, analysis, and sharing that is available to both professional researchers and the general public. Making these data usable to researchers and to the public ensures that the findings of archaeological research are accessible, interpretable, and replicable. The online analytical tools will allow a wide range of individuals to conduct their own analyses, whether tribal members interested in their history, land managers responsible for public interpretation, students learning data manipulation and display, or social scientists grappling with the long-term questions about the human past. A Citizen Science component for registered volunteers will allow a bigger community to participate in transformative science.

Abstractthis项目将创建Cyber​​sw，这是一个综合知识发现系统，将大大增强对十年级至百年量表的长期社会变革的跨学科研究。该项目将导致数据集成数百万个物体，从美国西南部成千上万的前甲壳虫环境中，使其成为世界上最大的数字考古存储库之一。使用考古数据的一个主要挑战是，大多数相关信息未在单个项目之外进行数字策划或合成。美国西南部的许多近期合成项目表明，这些数据在社会科学中解决大问题的巨大潜力，例如：是什么促进了某些社会的成功或失败？迁移如何改变社会身份并创造新的社会结构？而且，环境挑战与社会变革之间有什么关系？我们将基于这些先前的项目建立一个集成的系统，该系统将允许不同水平的专家的用户可以轻松地查看，分析和导出有关西南部过去社会的数据，以解决与当代社会有关的这些和许多其他问题。考古数据是地理空间和临时引用的，包括人口规模和运动，社会多样性和不平等，技术创新和扩散以及气候等变量。通过建立网络，提议的项目将通过（1）将几个现有的合成数据库合并为一个可扩展的，网络的数字存储库来实现这些数据的累积研究潜力； （2）收集其他数据以填补空间，临时和物质培养差距； （3）分析这些数据并创建用户友好的在线工具，以进行数据分析和可视化； （4）建立一个用于数据可视化，分析和共享的Web门户，专业研究人员和公众都可以使用。使这些数据可用于研究人员和公众，确保档案研究的发现可访问，可解释和可复制。在线分析工具将允许各种各样的人进行自己的分析，无论是对其历史感兴趣的部落成员，负责公共解释的土地管理者，学生学习数据操纵和显示的土地经理，还是社会科学家解决有关人类过去的长期问题。注册志愿者的公民科学组成部分将使更大的社区参与变革性科学。