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Designing an Infrastructure for Heterogeneity of Ecosystem Data, Collaborators, Organizations

Designing an Infrastructure for Heterogeneity of Ecosystem Data, Collaborators, Organizations. Karen Baker , Palmer LTER Information Manager, SIO/UCSD Geoffrey C. Bowker , Dept of Communications, UCSD Helena Karasti , University of Oulu, Finland & UCSD. What is this project?

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Designing an Infrastructure for Heterogeneity of Ecosystem Data, Collaborators, Organizations

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  1. Designing an Infrastructure for Heterogeneity of Ecosystem Data, Collaborators, Organizations Karen Baker, Palmer LTER Information Manager, SIO/UCSD Geoffrey C. Bowker, Dept of Communications, UCSD Helena Karasti, University of Oulu, Finland & UCSD

  2. What is this project? We will observe the data ecologies and work practices within the LTER, elicit and articulate significant elements of collaboration and community, and consider design artifacts that enhance network science in order to better understand and to plan for the management of scientific heterogeneity. What is our support? NSF/BDEI - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics incubation grant SIO/UCSD - Scripps Institution of Oceanography Matching Funds NSF/LTER Palmer/Network - Matching Time Academy of Finland - Research Abroad Support

  3. Ethnography • Ethnography is an approach for developing understandings of the everyday activities of particular communities of people. • It is both a field practice and a discursive practice: • a “process” of conducting fieldwork (e.g. observations, interviewing, participation) • an analytic lens through which human activity can be viewed • in the case of CSCW/SI it is a lens through which multiple voices can be heard in the process of designing effective information systems • Participatory Design • is an approach to the design and development of technological and organizational systems that places a premium on the active involvement of workplace practitioners in design and decision-making processes.

  4. Exploring and understanding scientific heterogeneity through bridging environmental sciences and social sciences SOCIALSCIENCES Computer Supported Cooperative Work Social Informatics Ethnography Participatory Design LTER Network Science EcoInformatics Information Management ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

  5. Ecologies exist at multiple levels • Data: data collection and archive • Collaborator: multiple views and human interfaces • Organization: organization environment and memory

  6. One view of the Antarctic marine system: Palmer LTER, 1998

  7. One view of data ecology: WWW Palmer LTER Information System data catalog RESEARCH SUPPORT site description data bibliography personnel procedures metadata data dictionaries Baker, 2000 Component N Component 2 Component 1

  8. Coordinating Committee NSF Planning NAB Exec Chair Network Office Standing Committees Implementation 21 Sites and 1100 Scientists One view of network ecology: LTER Operational Chart LTER Network, 2001

  9. One view of the earth: Figure 8.1 Two-component conceptual model Odum, 1998

  10. A three-component conceptual model with established domains and communities of practice (CoP) Earth Measurements Environmental Sciences Participatory Design (PD) IM CMC Human/ Social Sciences HCI CSCW SI PD Information Sciences Baker, Bowker and Karasti, 2002 Human Dynamics Technology

  11. Databases as communication tools in a biodiverse world • The Data: We gather, document, archive and manipulate ontologically diverse data • The People: We possess a variety of different views of the environment • Heterogeneity in Our Working Knowledge: We find the digital culture leads us very quickly into deep theoretical questions and to questions of communication patterns within and between scientific disciplines as well as with legal and political bodies

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