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Workshop on field studies of data and software work in science

 

Each group has provided three prioritized readings. Local copies of PDFs are linked from the titles below.

Or you can download a full zip of the PDFs (with groups and priorities in the filenames).

Borgman/Darch, UCLA/UIUC, Knowledge Infrastructures

  1. Borgman, C. L., Darch, P. T., Sands, A. E., Pasquetto, I. V., Golshan, M. S., Wallis, J. C., & Traweek, S. (2015). Knowledge infrastructures in science: Data, diversity, and digital libraries. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 16(3-4), 207–227. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-015-0157-z. Also available at http://works.bepress.com/borgman/371/

  2. Darch, P. T., Borgman, C. L., Traweek, S., Cummings, R. L., Wallis, J. C., & Sands, A. E. (2015). What lies beneath?: Knowledge infrastructures in the subseafloor biosphere and beyond. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 16(1), 61–77. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-015-0137-3

  3. Borgman, C. L., Wallis, J. C., & Mayernik, M. S. (2012). Who’s got the data? Interdependencies in science and technology collaborations. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21(6), 485–523. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-012-9169-z. Also available at http://works.bepress.com/borgman/260/

Data Science Studies Group, U Washington, UC Berkeley, and NYU

  1. Tanweer, Fiore-Gartland and Aragon (2016)Impediment to insight to innovation: understanding data assemblages through the breakdown–repair process Information, Communication, and Society

  2. Trace Ethnography: Following coordination through documentary practices (Geiger and Ribes, 2011) In Proceedings of HICSS.

  3. Blog: Community level data science and its spheres of influence: beyond novelty squared (Fiore-Gartland, Tanweer) Weblink

Herbsleb, CMU

  1. Trainer, E. H., Chaihirunkarn, C., Kalyanasundaram, A., & Herbsleb, J. D. (2015). From Personal Tool to Community Resource: What’s the Extra Work and Who Will Do It? In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 417–430). New York, NY, USA: ACM. http://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675172

  2. Trainer, E. H., Kalyanasundaram, A., Chaihirunkarn, C., & Herbsleb, J. D. (2016). How to Hackathon: Socio-technical Tradeoffs in Brief, Intensive Collocation. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 1118–1130). New York, NY, USA: ACM. http://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2819946

  3. Howison, J., & Herbsleb, J. D. (2013). Incentives and integration in scientific software production, ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 459-470). San Antonio, TX.

Howison, UT Austin

  1. Howison, J., & Bullard, J. (2015). Software in the scientific literature: Problems with seeing, finding, and using software mentioned in the biology literature. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Article first published online: 13 May 2015. http://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23538

  2. Howison, J. (2015). Sustaining scientific infrastructures: transitioning from grants to peer production (work-in-progress). Presented at the iConference, Irvine, CA.

  3. Howison, James (with Herbsleb, J.) (in progress) The Governance Of Software Ecosystems For Science: Challenges And Policy Recommendations For Sustainable Scientific Software. This is a working paper I’m considering changing into a book (thus it starts with an intro chapter and chapter outline).