EAGER: Measuring the Impact and Diffusion of Open Source Software Innovation on Contributor and Project Networks

EAGER：衡量开源软件创新对贡献者和项目网络的影响和扩散

• 批准号: 2306160
• 负责人: Gizem Korkmaz
• 金额: $ 29.84万
• 依托单位: Westat Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-11-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2306160&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Measuring; Impact; Diffusion; Open

Open-Source Software (OSS) is developed, maintained, and extended through the contribution of independent developers as well as individuals and groups from universities, government research institutions, businesses, and nonprofits. Many OSS projects are developed in free repositories, and the information embedded in these repositories - including the code, contributors, and development activity - is publicly available. However, the extent and impacts of OSS on the economy and innovation are currently unknown, and the creation and use of OSS highlight an aspect of technology diffusion and flow not captured in science and technology indicators. The goals of this project are to discover, collect, and use publicly available non-survey data sources on OSS and to test the feasibility of developing methods to measure the impact and diffusion of OSS innovation. The project will evaluate OSS through development of rigorous, repeatable, and scalable methods and metrics. The outputs of this effort — unique data sets, code, and the resulting analyses of the interactions among contributors and projects — advance our nascent knowledge about OSS, including the patterns and dynamics of collaborations, influential actors, prevailing topics, and diffusion. Developed measures will complement existing indicators on peer-reviewed publications and patents. Our framework could apply to other aspects of open science, such as shared data available in public repositories.To address our core questions, we propose (i) to characterize the OSS ecosystem by analyzing available information on OSS projects (creation and use), and developers (institutions, sectors, and countries); (ii) to represent the interactions using networks of contributors (through collaborations between developers) and networks of OSS projects (through reuses across projects and shared contributors) and to analyze their structural features; (iii) to develop methods to measure the impact of projects and developers using network-based and OSS-based measures (e.g., downloads); (iv) to study the diffusion of OSS innovation within and across institutions, sectors and countries; and (v) to bring forward a unique and novel data product combining various data sources on OSS.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.

开源软件（OSS）是通过独立开发商以及大学，政府研究机构，企业和非营利组织的个人和团体的贡献来开发，维护和扩展的。免费存储库中开发了许多OSS项目，并且公开可用这些存储库中的信息（包括代码，贡献者和开发活动）。但是，目前尚不清楚OSS对经济和创新的程度和影响，而OSS的创建和使用突出了科学技术指标中未捕获的技术扩散和流动的方面。该项目的目标是在OSS上发现，收集和使用公开可用的非调查数据来源，并测试开发方法来衡量OSS创新的影响和扩散的方法。该项目将通过开发严格，可重复和可扩展的方法和指标来评估OSS。这项工作的输出（独特的数据集，代码以及贡献者和项目之间的交互作用的结果分析）推进了我们对OSS的新生知识，包括协作，有影响力的参与者的模式和动态，有影响力的参与者，普遍的主题和差异。制定的措施将补充经同行评审的出版物和专利的现有指标。我们的框架可以应用于开放科学的其他方面，例如公共存储库中可用的共享数据。要解决我们的核心问题，我们建议（i）通过分析有关OSS项目（创建和使用）的可用信息来表征OSS生态系统，以及开发人员（机构，部门和国家 /地区）； （ii）用贡献者网络（通过开发人员之间的协作）和OSS项目网络（通过项目和共享贡献者的重用）来表示交互，并分析其结构性特征； （iii）开发使用基于网络和基于OSS的措施（例如下载）的方法来衡量项目和开发人员的影响； （iv）研究OSS创新在机构，部门和国家内的OSS创新的扩散； （v）提出一种独特而新颖的数据产品，结合了OSS的各种数据源。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被视为通过评估来获得珍贵的支持。