This was an excellent workshop organized by Fran Berman and Henry Brady. The workshop and the report I believe may be a turning point in the greater participation of the Social, Behavioral, Economics research communities in the analysis, synthesis, and application of cyberinfrastructure-enhanced knowledge communities. There have been strong pockets of researchers working in this area for a long time, but hopefully this workshop and report will help with scale-up and of course with the provision of financial resources to enable it.
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Final Report: NSF SBE-CISE Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure and the Social Sciences
First section of
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Background
The report of the Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure (the “Atkins Report”) found that “a new age has dawned in scientific and engineering research” in which
Cyberinfrastructure will play a crucial role. Cyberinfrastructure has the potential to be a fundamental enabler of innovations and new discoveries, and it is just as critical for the advancement of the social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) sciences as it is for engineering and the physical, natural, biological, and computer sciences. By participating in the development of Cyberinfrastructure, the SBE sciences can take a giant step forward.
It is equally true that SBE scientists are uniquely situated to work with computer scientists supported by NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science Engineering (CISE) as well as other researchers to develop more effective Cyberinfrastructure. In addition to benefiting from and helping to design successful Cyberinfrastructure for the broad NSF science and engineering community, the SBE sciences can also help assess the effects of Cyberinfrastructure on science, engineering, technology, and society so that its potential can be realized and its benefits maximized.
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