Sustaining the development of cyberinfrastructure

Bietz, Matthew J.; Ferro, Toni; Lee, Charlotte P.

doi:10.1145/2145204.2145339

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“…Researchers have, for example, identified a tension between the academic research goals of computer scientists and the implementation oriented needs of domain scientists [14,23] and the need to "synergize" efforts in production of cyberinfrastructure tools, especially in shifting, dynamic funding environments [7]. In the related area of data, research has shown how differential valuations of data in different scientific fields result in varying incentives, which are key to understanding data-sharing practices in different scientific fields [43].…”

Section: Studies Of Software Work In Science/infrastructurementioning

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“…In current practice, scientific software originates in a diverse set of production systems that differ markedly in their incentive structures for creating, using, sharing, and enhancing software [7,18,24]. A sea change is in progress, however, as science shifts toward cyberinfrastructure, offering to reduce duplicated effort and enhance large scale collaboration [3,9,33,43] both in science and in the production of scientific software.…”

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Incentives and integration in scientific software production

Howison

Herbsleb

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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Science policy makers are looking for approaches to increase the extent of collaboration in the production of scientific software, looking to open collaborations in open source software for inspiration. We examine the software ecosystem surrounding BLAST, a key bioinformatics tool, identifying outside improvements and interviewing their authors. We find that academic credit is a powerful motivator for the production and revealing of improvements. Yet surprisingly, we also find that improvements motivated by academic credit are less likely to be integrated than those with other motivations, including financial gain. We argue that this is because integration makes it harder to see who has contributed what and thereby undermines the ability of reputation to function as a reward for collaboration. We consider how open source avoids these issues and conclude with policy approaches to promoting wider collaboration by addressing incentives for integration.

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Section: Studies Of Software Work In Science/infrastructurementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Incentives and integration in scientific software production

Howison

Herbsleb

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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“…Through utilizing such organizations, scientists can examine very large datasets from a wide variety of sources across geographic and interdisciplinary boundaries with relative ease, greatly increasing opportunities for effective scientific collaboration [36]. Despite this potential, and much prior research into the issues surrounding the design of such infrastructures in both the CHI and CSCW fields [5,6,12,28,30,46], creating effective and enduring cyberinfrastructure remains a complex challenge.…”

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Creating Sustainable Cyberinfrastructures

Randall

Diamant

Lee

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In this paper we report the results of a qualitative research study of the GENI cyberinfrastructure: a program of four federated cyberinfrastructures. Drawing on theories of stakeholder positioning, we examine how different GENI stakeholders attempt to enlist new participants in the cyberinfrastructures of GENI, and leverage existing relationships to create sustainable infrastructure. This study contributes to our understanding of how cyberinfrastructures emerge over time through processes of stakeholder alignment, enrollment, and through synergies among stakeholder groups. We explore these issues to better understand how cyberinfrastructures can be designed to sustain over time.

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“…The wealth of case studies presented at the session on 'Collaboration and Sharing in Scientific Work' at CSCW'13 [5,6,9,10] along with related work presented at previous CSCW conferences [1,4,8,11] indicate the timeliness of bringing researchers together who study the sharing, reuse, and circulation of scientific resources. This workshop will provide the opportunity to network and get to know each other, share research experiences and findings, identify current themes and topics, reflect on and synthesize results, and explore the space of still open questions.…”

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Sharing, re-use and circulation of resources in cooperative scientific work

Velden

Bietz

Diamant

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computi

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This one-day workshop aims to stimulate research on the sharing and reuse of scientific resources in cooperative scientific work. As science trends toward increasing geographic and temporal scales, larger collaborations, and greater interdisciplinarity, scientific resources increasingly need to be more mobile and integrated with computer supported information and communication environments. Sharing, reuse and circulation of resources become a central challenge and critical component of cooperative scientific work. We interpret sharing broadly to include circulating scientific materials in any way that makes them available to other scientists. We include a variety of resources such as data, software, materials and specimens, workflows, technical know-how, clinical and laboratory protocols, and algorithms. We explore a range of sharing and reuse practices past and present, what motivates and limits them, how sharing can be done more effectively, what tools and techniques facilitate or constrain it, and how this relates to systems and science policy.

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Sustaining the development of cyberinfrastructure

Cited by 27 publications

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Incentives and integration in scientific software production

Incentives and integration in scientific software production

Creating Sustainable Cyberinfrastructures

Sharing, re-use and circulation of resources in cooperative scientific work

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