NSF Org:	OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
Recipient:	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA
Initial Amendment Date:	August 9, 2024
Latest Amendment Date:	January 24, 2025
Award Number:	2437951
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Plato Smith plsmith@nsf.gov  (703)292-4278 OAC  Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE  Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Start Date:	January 1, 2025
End Date:	December 31, 2026 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$299,776.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$299,776.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2024 = $299,776.00
History of Investigator:	Stuart Chalk (Principal Investigator) schalk@unf.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of North Florida 1 UNF DR JACKSONVILLE FL  US  32224-7699 (904)620-2455
Sponsor Congressional District:	05
Primary Place of Performance:	University of North Florida 1 U N F DR JACKSONVILLE FL  US  32224-7699
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	05
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	MHM6MGJFANE7
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	NSF Public Access Initiative
Primary Program Source:	01002425DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	7916
Program Element Code(s):	741400
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.070

ABSTRACT

This project focuses on creation of an open ecosystem, KnowLedger, through developing a suite of components needed for an open digital research notebook (DRN) that will nominally serve all research communities, putting the control of the development in the hands of the research community (as far as possible), promoting data science/informatics as an important part of all research activities, and encouraging research data sharing and reuse. KnowLedger is envisioned to be a complete rethink of what a research notebook should be able to do, enabling new ways to record data/take notes, connect with online resources, and flexible so it can be tailored to the needs of the science and the scientific workflow.

Giving researchers the ability within KnowLedger to develop resources they need for RDM in an open and free ecosystem is anticipated to encourage contribution to/participation in its development and garner suggestions for configuration options and functionality broadly. The ecosystem will be developed as an open and distributed model using GitHub repositories as hubs for community development of data access/data analysis modules, data templates (including minimum metadata standards), and research workflows. The goal is to outline an approach, setup several key resources, provide ideas of how the ecosystem could be setup, and enable the research community to; understand the idea, see the future of RDM, galvanize their disciplines into action, and leverage their disciplines? available funding for community needs.

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.

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