总统的信息：从多样性，收敛
21世纪初揭开了一种新的，跨学科的研究领域，称为可持续发展科学。This field incorporates the knowledge and research gained through traditionally scientific disciplines (e.g., paleoanthropology, climate studies, geology, environmental sciences, biology) with that gained from the social sciences and humanities (behavioral studies, political science, philosophy, and ethics) to more deeply and coherently inform our policies and help model our behaviors to become better stewards of a planet that already is succumbing to potentially catastrophic climate shifts: loss of arable land, increasingly violent storms, wild temperature swings, and rising seas. Some applications of sustainability science encompass economic stability, articulated as the elimination of poverty and redressing the currently staggering inequality of wealth distribution.
在阅读研究和背景时，它让我震惊了CLIR在过去的十年中采用了我们的项目和计划的方法，这些方法与这个新鲜调查领域的原则和目标密切相关。将学术信息视为虚拟生态系统。我们的努力被原则和所需结果为指导，舒适地映射到包括多样性，收敛和平等的可持续发展科学原则。
我们已经扩展到跨学科研究。例如，我们的数据策展博士后研究员计划现在跨越了科学，社会科学和人文学科的25多个学科，因为我们的研究员管理，安全，保留，并使大量的大数据实例。编目隐藏的集合计划及其继任者，数字化隐藏集合，已经将Clir带到了一个更多样化的机构选区，现在包括图书馆，档案馆，博物馆，宗教中心，历史社会，电影社和媒体的频谱：书籍，手稿，视听收藏和照片。中东（DLME）的数字图书馆最初为中东和北非的学术领导和机构提供服务，并代表了传统投资组合的令人兴奋的地理扩张。
Such diversity of perspectives, interests, cultural legacy, and subject matter is not an end in itself, but a means to broaden the scope of CLIR’s services in order to strengthen convergence, in this case the process of coming together and working interdependently, using shared resources, extensible applications, interoperable digital platforms, and easily migrated and reusable data. Trusted confluence at a global scale frames all of our current work.
从多样性和融合：平等。我们的基本愿望是提供丰富的信息和服务，这些信息和服务是通过社区参与的全部和维护。这些知识被组织并不断丰富，使我们理解这一复杂世界的能力成为其宝贵的虚拟资源的更好的管家，并尽可能地保证这种知识，这既集成数量，并告知任何人的重要责任一代：可持续的未来。
-charles henry，2018年4月
