Technological frames: making sense of information technology in organizations
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) - Special issue on social science perspectives on IS
Specifying metadata standards for metadata tool configuration
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Functional Requirements for Online Tools to Support Community-Led Collections Building
ECDL '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective
Organization Science
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Data and Metadata on the Semantic Grid
Computing in Science and Engineering
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Metadata aggregation and "automated digital libraries": a retrospective on the NSDL experience
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Learning from artifacts: metadata utilization analysis
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
The qualitative interview in IS research: Examining the craft
Information and Organization
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet
Negotiating "best practices" in package software implementation
Information and Organization
DCMI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications: supporting communities of discourse and practice---metadata research & applications
Iterative design of metadata creation tools for resource authors
DCMI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications: supporting communities of discourse and practice---metadata research & applications
Implementing information systems with project teams using ethnographic-action research
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Between meaning and machine: Learning to represent the knowledge of communities
Information and Organization
Dublin Core metadata semantics: an analysis of the perspectives of information professionals
Journal of Information Science
Trans-Situated Learning: Supporting a Network of Practice with an Information Infrastructure
Information Systems Research
Representations and actions: the transformation of work practices with IT use
Information and Organization
Merging metadata: a sociotechnical study of crosswalking and interoperability
Proceedings of the 10th annual joint conference on Digital libraries
Local assimilation of an enterprise system: Situated learning by means of familiarity pockets
Information and Organization
Research Commentary---Digital Infrastructures: The Missing IS Research Agenda
Information Systems Research
How institutional factors influence the creation of scientific metadata
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Designing interviews to generate rich data for information systems research
Information and Organization
Organizational culture and information systems adoption: A three-perspective approach
Information and Organization
A research agenda for data curation cyberinfrastructure
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
A user-centric metadata creation tool for preserving the nation's ecological data
HI'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Human interface and the management of information - Volume Part I
Large-Scale impact of digital library services: findings from a major evaluation of SCRAN
ECDL'06 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
'Erasmus': an organization- and user-centered dublin core metadata tool
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
Understanding the Role of Objects in Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Organization Science
Transcending Knowledge Differences in Cross-Functional Teams
Organization Science
TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
Style composition in action research publication
MIS Quarterly
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The organizations that develop information systems are usually composed of members and groups with different technological backgrounds and experiences. While these different backgrounds are necessary to support the many dimensions of information system development, at the same time they can result in barriers to sharing organizational knowledge, and can thus impede this work. Understanding how the technological backgrounds of organizational groups are constituted and mediated thus provides useful insight into how information system development occurs in organizational contexts. This article contributes to this discussion with a qualitative and interpretive case study of a small team engaged in creating metadata for a digital library. A number of unexpected and recalcitrant problems were encountered that delayed this metadata work. Drawing on theories of networks of practice, technological frames, and perspective making and perspective taking, the article uses ethnographic- and action research-based interviews, to probe project members' understanding of metadata. The analysis identified different networks of practice and technological frames in the project, including the IT workers, who had a systems administration perspective, and the faculty members, who had a theoretical research perspective. The tensions caused by these differences are described, as are the ways in which the project resolved them. Two findings are that the intercommunal negotiation was established not just between individual networks of practice in the project, but with reference to an emerging community of practice that served as a boundary object, and that intercommunal negotiation also had to be carried out diachronically across time, with this latter form of negotiation being difficult to achieve.