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Infrastructure Time: Long-term Matters in Collaborative Development

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Infrastructure Time: Long-term Matters in Collaborative Development
This paper addresses the collaborative development of information infrastructure for supporting data-rich scientific collaboration. Studying infrastructure development empirically not only in terms of spatial issues but also, and equally importantly, temporal ones, we illustrate how the long-term matters. Our case is about the collaborative development of a metadata standard for an ecological research domain. It is a complex example where standards are recognized as one element of infrastructure and standard-making efforts include integration of semantic work and software tools development. With a focus on the temporal scales of short-term and long-term, we analyze the practices and views of the main parties involved in the development of the standard. Our contributions are three-fold: 1) extension of the notion of infrastructure to more explicitly include the temporal dimension; 2) identification of two distinct temporal orientations in information infrastructure development work, nam...
Helena Karasti, Karen S. Baker, Florence Millerand
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where CSCW
Authors Helena Karasti, Karen S. Baker, Florence Millerand
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