Coordination mechanisms: towards a conceptual foundation of CSCW systems design
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on the design of cooperative systems
NetWORKers and their Activity in IntensionalNetworks
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Communications of the ACM - Blueprint for the future of high-performance networking
Infrastructuring for the Long-Term: Ecological Information Management
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 1 - Volume 1
The human infrastructure of cyberinfrastructure
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Tensions across the scales: planning infrastructure for the long-term
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
Context-linked virtual assistants for distributed teams: an astrophysics case study
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Scientific Collaboration on the Internet
Scientific Collaboration on the Internet
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Sociotechnical Studies of Cyberinfrastructure and e-Research: Current Themes and Future Trajectories
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Challenges in the management of high-performance computing centers: an organizational perspective
State of the Practice Reports
Sustaining the development of cyberinfrastructure: an organization adapting to change
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Collaborative design of an oceanographic event logger
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
A sociotechnical exploration of infrastructural middleware development
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Beyond trust and reliability: reusing data in collaborative cancer epidemiology research
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The work of developing cyberinfrastructure middleware projects
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The role of data in aligning the 'unique identity' infrastructure in India
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Supporting Scientific Collaboration: Methods, Tools and Concepts
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
This paper investigates the work of creating infrastructure, using as a case study the development of cyberinfrastructure for metagenomics research. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the role of embeddedness in infrastructure development. We expand on the notion of human infrastructure to develop the concepts of synergizing, leveraging, and aligning, which denote the active processes of creating and managing relationships among people, organizations, and technologies in the creation of cyberinfrastructure. This conceptual lens highlights how embeddedness is not only an important result of infrastructure development, but is also a precursor that can act as both a constraint and a resource for development activities.