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Our special issue of CSCW has been published! I’m really excited about the six accepted papers.

Special Issue: Sociotechnical Studies of Cyberinfrastructure and e-Research: Supporting Collaborative Research

Guest Edited by Charlotte P. Lee, David Ribes, Matthew J. Bietz, Helena Karasti and Marina Jirotka

CSCW, v. 19, no. 3-4, August 2010
Read Online at SpringerLink

  • Sociotechnical Studies of Cyberinfrastructure and e-Research: Current Themes and Future Trajectories / David Ribes and Charlotte P. Lee
  • Synergizing in Cyberinfrastructure Development / Matthew J. Bietz, Eric P. S. Baumer and Charlotte P. Lee
  • The Dialectical Tensions in the Funding Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure / Kerk F. Kee and Larry D. Browning
  • Transforming Scholarly Practice: Embedding Technological Interventions to Support the Collaborative Analysis of Ancient Texts / Grace de la Flor, Marina Jirotka, Paul Luff, John Pybus and Ruth Kirkham
  • Reconfiguring Evidence: Interacting with Digital Objects in Scientific Practice / Marko Monteiro
  • Reusing Scientific Data: How Earthquake Engineering Researchers Assess the Reusability of Colleagues’ Data / Ixchel M. Faniel and Trond E. Jacobsen
  • Infrastructure Time: Long-term Matters in Collaborative Development / Helena Karasti, Karen S. Baker and Florence Millerand

I’m organizing (with Charlotte Lee and David Ribes) a workshop at the upcoming CSCW 2008 conference. There’s still time to send a position paper! Here are the details:


Workshop on Designing Cyberinfrastructure to Support Science

At the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Saturday, November 8. San Diego, CA

Recent years have seen the rise of new forms of large-scale distributed scientific enterprises supported primarily through advanced information infrastructures. These advanced infrastructures are called “cyberinfrastructure,” although terms such as grid computing, collaboratories, and eScience are also commonly used. Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Cyberinfrastructure intersect in their aims to support collaboration within heterogeneous groups and across physical distribution. Furthermore the development of CI – or large-scale informational resources – is itself a form of collaborative work worthy of CSCW research. Continue Reading…