Build it, but will they come? A geoscience cyberinfrastructure baseline analysis

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld; Karen S. Baker; Nicholas Berente; Dorothy R. Carter; Leslie A. DeChurch; Courtney C. Flint; Gabriel Gershenfeld; Michael Haberman; John Leslie King; Christine Kirkpatrick; Eric Knight; Barbara Lawrence; Spenser Lewis; W. Christopher Lenhardt; Pablo Lopez; Matthew S. Mayernik; Charles McElroy; Barbara Mittleman; Victor Nichol; Mark Nolan; Namchul Shin; Cheryl A. Thompson; Susan Winter; Ilya Zaslavsky

doi:10.5334/dsj-2016-008

Build it, but will they come? A geoscience cyberinfrastructure baseline analysis

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld^*, Karen S. Baker, Nicholas Berente, Dorothy R. Carter, Leslie A. DeChurch, Courtney C. Flint, Gabriel Gershenfeld, Michael Haberman, John Leslie King, Christine Kirkpatrick, Eric Knight, Barbara Lawrence, Spenser Lewis, W. Christopher Lenhardt, Pablo Lopez, Matthew S. Mayernik, Charles McElroy, Barbara Mittleman, Victor Nichol, Mark NolanNamchul Shin, Cheryl A. Thompson, Susan Winter, Ilya Zaslavsky

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Abstract

Understanding the earth as a system requires integrating many forms of data from multiple fields. Builders and funders of the cyberinfrastructure designed to enable open data sharing in the geosciences risk a key failure mode: What if geoscientists do not use the cyberinfrastructure to share, discover and reuse data? In this study, we report a baseline assessment of engagement with the NSF EarthCube initiative, an open cyberinfrastructure effort for the geosciences. We find scientists perceive the need for cross-disciplinary engagement and engage where there is organizational or institutional support. However, we also find a possibly imbalanced involvement between cyber and geoscience communities at the outset, with the former showing more interest than the latter. This analysis highlights the importance of examining fields and disciplines as stakeholders to investments in the cyberinfrastructure supporting science.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	8
Journal	Data Science Journal
Volume	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2016-008
State	Published - 2016

Funding

Support from the National Science Foundation is deeply appreciated. Support for this research has been provided through NSF OCI RAPID 1229928, \"Stakeholder Alignment for EarthCube,\" and NSF GEO-SciSIP-STS-OCI-INSPIRE 1249607, \"Enabling Transformation in the Social Sciences, Geosciences, and Cyberinfrastructure.\"

Keywords

Curation
Cyberinfrastructure
Disciplines
EarthCube
Fields
Geoscience
Infrastructure
Network effects
Open data
Reuse
Stakeholder Alignment

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Computer Science Applications

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Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J., Baker, K. S., Berente, N., Carter, D. R., DeChurch, L. A., Flint, C. C., Gershenfeld, G., Haberman, M., King, J. L., Kirkpatrick, C., Knight, E., Lawrence, B., Lewis, S., Lenhardt, W. C., Lopez, P., Mayernik, M. S., McElroy, C., Mittleman, B., Nichol, V., ... Zaslavsky, I. (2016). Build it, but will they come? A geoscience cyberinfrastructure baseline analysis. Data Science Journal, 15, Article 8. https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2016-008

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