The enacted fate of undiscovered public knowledge
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Discovering information behavior in sense making. I: time and timing
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice: The Ecology ofVisible and Invisible Work
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue: a web on the wind: the structure of invisible work
Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age
Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age
Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment
Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment
Environmental Information Management and Analysis: Ecosystem to Global Scales
Environmental Information Management and Analysis: Ecosystem to Global Scales
What's Different in Gender Oriented ISD?
Proceedings of the IFIP TC9/WG9.1 Fifth International Conference on Woman, Work and Computerization: Breaking Old Boundaries - Building New Forms
The Management of Distributed Organizational Knowledge
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 8 - Volume 8
Designing an infrastructure for heterogeneity in ecosystem data, collaborators and organizations
dg.o '02 Proceedings of the 2002 annual national conference on Digital government research
ECSCW'01 Proceedings of the seventh conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking
Organization Science
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An information ecology provides a conceptual framework to consider data, the creation of knowledge, and the flow of information within a multidimensional context. This paper, reporting on a 1 year project to study the heterogeneity of information and its management within the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) community, presents some manifestations of traditionally unreported `invisible work' and associated elements of informal knowledge and unarticulated information. We draw from a range of ethnographic materials to understand ways in which data-information-knowledge are viewed within the community and consider some of the non-linear aspects of data-knowledge-information that relate to the development of a sustained, robust, persistent infrastructure for data collection in environmental science research. Taking data as the unit of study, the notion of long-term research and data holdings leads to consideration of types of memory and of knowledge important for design of cyberinfrastructures. Complexity, ambiguity, and nonlinearity are part of an information ecology and addressed today by exploring multiple types of knowledge, developing information system vocabularies, and recognizing the need for intermediation.