A Framework for Measuring the Impact and Effectiveness of the NEES Cyberinfrastructure for Earthquake Engineering

Abstract

Many cyber infrastructure and cloud computing systems have been developed and deployed over the past decade. Although use metrics are collected by many of these systems, there is not a clear link from these metrics to the ultimate effectiveness and impact of these systems on science communities. This paper describes a framework we developed that seeks to provide context for use and impact metrics to facilitate understanding of how these systems are used and ultimately adopted by science and engineering communities. We use this framework to present metrics of use, impact, and effectiveness collected from the NEES cyber infrastructure.