Collaborative Librarians

Reading List on Cyberinfrastructure (aka eScience or team science)

My PhD research focuses on the coordination of collaborative research, so I’m compiling a list here of what I’m reading. I’m especially interested in eScience, development of trust in groups, measuring effectiveness in science, costs of coordination, communication issues, data curation, information management and anything else related to how people work together on distributed teams. (There is no particular order to these list.)

If you have suggestions, please post them in the comments.

Cyberinfrastructure/eScience/team science:

1. Kouzes, R. T., Myers, J. D., & Wulf, W. A. (1996). Collaboratories: Doing science on the Internet. IEEE Computer, 29(8), 40-46.
2. Atkins, D. E., Droegemeier, K. K., Feldman, S. I., Garcia-Molina, H., Klein, M. L., Messina, P., et al. (2003). Revolutionizing science and engineering through cyberinfrastructure: Report of the National Science Foundation blue-ribbon advisory panel on cyberinfrastructure. Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation.
3. Lee, C. P., Dourish, P., & Mark, G. (2006). The human infrastructure of cyberinfrastructure Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 483 – 492). New York: ACM.
4. Ribes, D., & Finholt, T. A. (2007). Tensions across the scales: Planning infrastructure for the long-term Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work (pp. 229-238). New York: ACM.
5. Edwards, P. N., Jackson, S. J., Bowker, G. C., & Knobel, C. P. (2007). Understanding infrastructure: Dynamics, tensions, and design. Ann Arbor, MI: Deep Blue.
6. Zimmerman, A., & Finholt, T. A. (2007). Growing an infrastructure: The role of gateway organizations in cultivating new communities of users Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Supporting Group Work (pp. 239-248). New York: ACM.
7. Edwards, P. N., Jackson, S. J., Bowker, G. C., & Williams, R. (2009). Introduction: An Agenda for Infrastructure Studies. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 10(5), 364-374.
8. Ribes, D., & Finholt, T. A. (2009). The Long Now of Technology Infrastructure: Articulating Tensions in Development. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 10, 375-398.
9. Bietz, M. J., Baumer, E. P. S., & Lee, C. P. (January 01, 2010). Synergizing in Cyberinfrastructure Development. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19, 3-4.
10. Spallek, H., Butler, B. S., Schleyer, T. K., Weiss, P. M., Wang, X., Thyvalikakath, T. P., Hatala, C. L., … Naderi, R. A. (January 01, 2008). Supporting emerging disciplines with e-communities: needs and benefits. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 10, 2.)
11. Berman, F. 2001. The Human Side of Cyberinfrastructure. EnVision. 17(2): 1.
12. Cummings, J. and Kiesler, S. 2005. Collaborative Research Across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries. Social Studies of Science, 703-722.
13. Finholt, T. (2002). “COLLABORATORIES AS A NEW FORM OF SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION.” Economics of Innovation and New Technology 12(1): 5-25.
14. Jirotka, M., Procter R., Rodden T., and Bowker, G. (eds) 2006. Special Issue – Collaboration in e-Research. CSCW Journal.
15. Hey, T., & Trefethen, A. E. (May 06, 2005). Cyberinfrastructure for e-Science. Science, 308, 5723, 817-821.
16. Galison, P., & Hevly, B. W. (1992). Big science: The growth of large-scale research. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.
17. Jirotka, M., Procter R., Rodden T., and Bowker, G. (eds) 2006. Special Issue – Collaboration in e-Research. CSCW Journal.
18. Lawrence, K. (2006). “Walking the Tightrope: The Balancing Acts of a Large e-Research Project.” COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK 15(4): 385-411.

Working on teams, distributed group work:

1. Star, S. L., & Ruhleder, K. (1996). Steps toward an ecology of infrastructure: Design and access for large information spaces. Information Systems Research, 7(1), 111-134.
2. Star, S. L. (1999). The ethnography of infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist, 43(3), 377-391.
3. Klenk, N. L., Hickey, G. M., & MacLellan, J. I. (January 01, 2010). Evaluating the social capital accrued in large research networks: The case of the Sustainable Forest Management Network (1995-2009). Social Studies of Science, 40, 6, 931-960.

Measuring effectiveness or success of teams:

Coordination and communication:

Data curation:

1. Berman, F. (2008). “Got Data? a Guide to Data Preservation in the Information Age.” Communications of the ACM 51(12).

Information management, information behavior of scientists, involvement of librarians and information professionals: