Cyberinfrastructure
The landscape of social science is an increasingly interdisciplinary and collaborative activity. It is vital to develop cyberinfrastructure that preserves access to the digital artifacts (e.g., data, computer models, software, etc.) involved in these collaborative research activities. The Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity is actively involved in the development of a variety of digital tools to foster, strengthen, and facilitate collaboration within the research community and for dissemination to broader audiences.
- The Open Agent Based Modeling Consortium is a multi-institution organization focused on improving the development, communication, and dissemination of agent based models for research, practice and education. CSID is active in the development and maintenance of this website as well as the prototype agent based model archive that enables and encourages researchers in the agent based modeling community to publish the source code, documentation, and other digital artifacts associated with their agent based models in the interests of model replication and transparency.
- The Virtual Commons provides documentation and access to our suite of experiment software for multiplayer resource-governance laboratory experiments, web-based games, as well as pen-and-paper protocols for our common pool resource field experiments.
- The Electronic Library of Social-Ecological Systems (coming soon) provides descriptions of social ecological systems from around the world. Each entry in the database contains information about the ecological and social attributes of a particular system.
- The Digital Archaeological Record is developing a digital information repository for archaeology with support from the National Science Foundation and the Andrew. W. Mellon Foundation
