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Created in 2007, the Cyber-ShARE Center brings together
experts in computer science, computational mathematics,
education, earth science, and environmental science. The
team addresses the challenge of providing information to
scientists and other users of cyberinfrastructure (CI)*
that allows them to make informed decisions about the resources
that they retrieve and to have confidence in using results
from CI-based applications. The Cyber-ShARE team conducts
innovative research to facilitate the development of CI-based
applications and increase their use by scientists by enhancing
CI results with provenance information, trust recommendations,
and uncertainty levels (areas that are recognized as essential
for the success of CI); by creating scientist-centered tools
and artifacts; and by contributing CI resources to appropriate
CI portals.
*Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is the technical infrastructure,
organizational practices, and social norms required
to collectively provide for the smooth operation of
work in which interactions may be distributed across
time and geographic location. (Edwards, et al., 2007;
Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery,
March 2007).
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