E-Infrastructures for Research Collaboration

Scholarly and Research Communication, 2014

e Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) is the central organizing force for several virtual research environments (VREs). ARC is the hub for these period-specific nodes, which offer digital project peer review, aggregation and search technologies, and forms of community engagement. e mission of both ARC and the nodes is to construct and support a "social system" for the humanities in which the digital and the traditional can come together to develop a working social humanities infrastructure. is article discusses how the ARC infrastructure evolved from the framework of scholarly engagement developed by NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) and explains how the consortium assists the scholarly community: through digital project peer review, aggregation and search, and outreach services. Keywords Virtual research and learning environments; Digital scholarship; Editorial process Résumé Le Consortium de recherche avancée (ARC) est la force d'organisation centrale pour plusieurs environnements de recherche virtuels (ERV). ARC surveille quelques catalogues de période spécifique, en ligne qui offrent examen du projet numérique, les technologies d'agrégation et de recherche, et les formes de l'engagement communautaire. La mission d'ARC et les catalogues est de construire et soutenir un «système social» pour les sciences humaines dans lequel le numérique et le traditionnel Grumbach, Elizabeth, & Mandell, Laura. (2014). Meeting Scholars Where ey Are: e Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) and a Social Humanities Infrastructure. Scholarly and Research Communication, 5(4): 0401189, 12 pp. Scholarly and Research Communication volume 5 / issue 4 / 2014 2 peuvent venir ensemble pour développer une infrastructure de travail humaines sociale. Cet article explique comment l'infrastructure d'ARC a évolué, développé par NINES (Infrastructure réseau pour les études du dix-neuvième siècle électronique), et explique comment le consortium aide la communauté des sciences humaines numèriques. Mots clés Environnements de recherche et d'apprentissage virtuels; Savoir numérique; Processus éditorial 3 Scholarly and Research Communication volume 5 / issue 4 / 2014

2012

As a consequence of the joint and rapid evolution of the Internet and the social and behavioral sciences during the last two decades, the Internet is becoming one of the best possible psychological laboratories and is being used by scientists from all over the world in more and more productive and interesting ways each day. This chapter uses examples from psychology, while reviewing the most recent Web paradigms, like the Social Web, Semantic Web, and Cloud Computing, and their implications for e-research in the social and behavioral sciences, and tries to anticipate the possibilities offered to social science researchers by future Internet proposals. The most recent advancements in the architecture of the Web, both from the server and the client-side, are also discussed in relation to behavioral e-research. Given the increasing social nature of the Web, both social scientists and engineers should benefit from knowledge on how the most recent and future Web developments can provide new and creative ways to advance the understanding of the human nature.

The objective of this study is to understand scholarly research practice in virtual, distributed collaborations by focusing on the flow of documents among the participants and to advance design guidance for supporting improved document practice across distributed collaborative platforms. To do so, we develop a theoretical framework on document practice highlighting the sociotechnical role of documents in digital infrastructure. This mixed-methods study will first conduct semi-structured interviews to understand document practices. The second phase of the study will collect trace data of documents as a way to understand how they change over time. In this poster, we report on the analysis of twelve interviews from social scientists working in virtual collaborations. Initial findings show that social scientists organize their documents and scholarly work on emergent digital infrastructures. Although not ideal, emergent digital infrastructures provide stability for collaboration across time and space.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009

When the term "e-Science" became popular, it frequently was referred to as "enhanced science" or "electronic science". More telling is the definition 'e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it' . The question arises to what extent can the social sciences profit from recent developments in e-Science infrastructure? While computing, storage and network capacities so far were sufficient to accommodate and access social science data bases, new capacities and technologies support new types of research, e.g. linking and analysing transactional or audiovisual data. Increasingly collaborative working by researchers in distributed networks is efficiently supported and new resources are available for e-learning. Whether these new developments become transformative or just helpful will very much depend on whether their full potential is recognized and creatively integrated into new research designs by theoretically innovative scientists. Progress in e-Science was very much linked to the vision of the Grid as "a software infrastructure that enables flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions and resources' and virtually unlimited computing capacities . In the Social Sciences there has been considerable progress in using modern IT-technologies for multilingual access to virtual distributed research databases across Europe and beyond (e.g. NESSTAR, CESSDA -Portal), data portals for access to statistical offices and for linking access to data, literature, project, expert and other data bases (e.g. Digital Libraries, VASCODA/SOWIPORT). Whether future developments will need GRID enabling of social science databases or can be further developed using WEB 2.0 support is currently an open question. The challenges here are seamless integration and interoperability of data bases, a requirement that is also stipulated

2007

It is unclear if and how collaboratories have enhanced distributed scientific collaboration. Furthermore, little is known in the way of design strategies to support such collaboration. Based on a survey and follow-up interviews with CiteSeer users, we present four novel implications for designing the CiteSeer collaboratory. First, visualize query-based social networks to identify scholarly communities of interest. Second, provide online collaborative tool support for upstream stages of scientific collaboration. Third, support activity awareness for staying cognizant of online scientific activities. Fourth, use notification systems to convey scientific activity awareness.

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORKTHE JOURNAL OF COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING, 2010

e-Research and Cyberinfrastructure programmes actively promote the development of new forms of scientific practice and collaboration through the implementation of tools and technologies that support distributed collaborative work across geographically dispersed research institutes and laboratories. Whilst originating in scientific domains, we have more recently seen a turn to the design of systems that support research practices in the social sciences

2021

In this paper we present TRIPLE Transforming Research through Innovative Practices for Linked Interdisciplinary Exploration an on-going project funded as part of the European Horizon 2020 programme INFRAEOSC-02-2019 “Prototyping new innovative services” (2019-2023). The project’s main objective is to develop a multilingual and multicultural discovery solution for the social sciences and humanities (SSH), which will provide a single access point that allows users to explore, find, access and reuse materials such as literature, data, projects and researcher profiles at European scale. The paper first provides an overview of TRIPLE's main goals and impacts. It then describes the methodology adopted for the design and development of the project platform, GOTRIPLE. Finally, it contextualises the project within the European research landscape, and more specifically in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) ecosystem. In the conclusion, some current challenges and open issues are prese...

iConference 2016 Proceedings

The goal of this session for interaction and engagement is to explore and document the many individual practices of social scientists who collaborate at a distance with other scientists. We approach learning about the diverse spectrum of scientific practices common to conference attendees through an ethos of participatory design, show and tell, and performance of practice. This participation happens in three ways. The first is through both open and small group discussions of science practices and uses of digital resources. The second form is through drawing, concept mapping and diagramming scientific practices and uses of digital resources. Lastly, participation through comments and markups of the records of discussions and artifacts from drawing, concept-mapping and diagramming. This session will also be of interest to the community of scholars that study scientific practices, social studies of science, and cyberinfrastructure.

2021

The report refers to the call for user stories for the Text+ consortium in the context of the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). The user stories summited by scholars (mainly from the Humanities) present challenges or possible infrastructural solutions related to their individual research data. The report explains the context and methodology, as well as the decisions and steps taken during the call. It also provides an analysis of the major elements and categories of the user stories, and some reflexions for future measures.

International Journal of Human-computer Studies / International Journal of Man-machine Studies, 2009

It is unclear if and how collaboratories have enhanced distributed scientific collaboration. Furthermore, little is known in the way of design strategies to support such collaboration. This paper presents findings from an investigation into requirements for collaboration in e-science in the context of CiteSeer, a search engine and digital library of research literature in the computer and information science disciplines. Based on a survey and follow-up interviews with CiteSeer users, we present four novel implications for designing the CiteSeer collaboratory. First, visualize query-based social networks to identify scholarly communities of interest. Second, provide online collaborative tool support for upstream stages of scientific collaboration. Third, support activity awareness for staying cognizant of online scientific activities. Fourth, use notification systems to convey scientific activity awareness. We discuss how these implications can broadly enhance e-science usability for collaboratory infrastructures based on digital libraries. r