Data at work: supporting sharing in science and engineering
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
The human infrastructure of cyberinfrastructure
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Not by metadata alone: the use of diverse forms of knowledge to locate data for reuse
International Journal on Digital Libraries
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Synergizing in Cyberinfrastructure Development
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Sustaining the development of cyberinfrastructure: an organization adapting to change
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The conundrum of sharing research data
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Sharing, re-use and circulation of resources in cooperative scientific work
Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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While previous CSCW research on data sharing and reuse has focused on how researchers assess the trust and reliability of the data of others, we know little about scientists' data use practices after that decision has been taken. This qualitative study of post-doctoral researchers' use of preexisting datasets investigates the practices of cancer-epidemiology post-docs working to understand their "Small Data" datasets. We report the ongoing and iterative nature of information seeking inherent in using unfamiliar data and the time-consuming and highly-collaborative process post-docs used to understand aspects of the dataset important to their scientific questions. Understanding data use practices can help inform the design of both Small Data projects and large cyberinfrastructure projects where multi-source data are collected and combined.