Eliot Wilczek The MITRE Corporation Heather Soyka

Transcript:Eliot Wilczek The MITRE Corporation Heather Soyka:
Eliot Wilczek The MITRE Corporation Heather Soyka Kent State University Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited. Case Number 18-2581 ©2018 The MITRE Corporation. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The author's affiliation with The MITRE Corporation is provided for identification purposes only, and is not intended to convey or imply MITRE's concurrence with, or support for, the positions, opinions, or viewpoints expressed by the author. The Formulation of Grand Challenges within AERI Scholarship, 2009-2018 Research Forum Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting Washington DC August 2018 Introduction Explicit Articulation of Grand Challenges Implicit Articulation of Grand Challenges Opportunities & Conclusion Overview AERI’s explicit work to formulate grand challenges Archival Education and Research Institutes as implicit articulations of grand challenges Introduction Explicit Articulation of Grand Challenges Implicit Articulation of Grand Challenges Opportunities & Conclusion Archival Education and Research Initiative Collaborative effort among academic institutions Promote scholarship in archival studies Research and infrastructure building initiatives Annual institutes Introduction Explicit Articulation of Grand Challenges Implicit Articulation of Grand Challenges Opportunities & Conclusion Grand Challenges as a Concept Description of Societal Challenges Grand Challenges as a type of problem Anne Gilliland, “Permeable Binaries, Societal Grand Challenges, and the Roles of the Twenty-First Century Archival and Recordkeeping Profession,” Archifacts, 2015, 9, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/90q5538g. “massive…unsolvable, inevitable, impossibly and impassably complex and paradoxical problems that threaten entire regions or even the world, and yet, for humanity’s sake, absolutely need to be solved and the cycle of their inevitability broken.” Introduction Explicit Articulation of Grand Challenges Implicit Articulation of Grand Challenges Opportunities & Conclusion Grand Challenges as a Concept Shaping a Response Grand Challenges as calls to action Organization defining problem & Challenging communities to address problem Directing resources & attention Harold Varmus et al., “Grand Challenges in Global Health,” Science 302, no. 5644 (2003): 398. Discussing the work of the Gates Foundation. “A grand challenge is meant to direct investigators to a specific scientific or technical breakthrough that would be expected to overcome one or more bottlenecks in an imagined path towards a solution to one or preferably several significant health problems.” Introduction Explicit Articulation of Grand Challenges Implicit Articulation of Grand Challenges Opportunities & Conclusion AERI Grand Challenges Agenda Identify ways recordkeeping is an integral consideration in grand challenges Suggest aspects of grand challenges addressed through research in recordkeeping and archival studies Draw attention to complex, interdependent and persistent problems grand challenges facing the field of recordkeeping and archival studies