I am currently reading Derek J. de Solla Price’s Science Since Bablyon, in an effort to get back to my theories of science roots.
Archive for May, 2009
Science Since Babylon
Posted by jillian on May 30, 2009
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Jillian C. Wallis
Posted by jillian on May 30, 2009
University: University of California, Los Angeles
Department: Information Studies
Project: CENS
Status: Graduate Student Researcher
My interest in this research:
My research itself will build off of the previous and current interview studies run at CENS on data sharing and practices within a multi-disciplinary, multi-campus collaboration. My focus in the past has been on the role of trust in collaborative interactions between the researchers, how trust is engendered, the ramifications of a lack-of-trust, and how systems can provide surrogates for trust. My current research question is still under development, but will be something along the lines of the following: How can the psychological/physical distance between data collaborators be minimized?
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JCDL ’09 Short Paper
Posted by jillian on May 26, 2009
If you are planning to attend JCDL 2009 in Austin, please come check out our short paper presentation based on our pilot study and preliminary results. We welcome your feedback…
Borgman, C.L., Bowker, G.C., Finholt, T.A., & Wallis, J.C. (2009) Towards a virtual organization for data cyberinfrastructure. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX.
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4S Conference presentations
Posted by archer on May 26, 2009
On 28 Oct – 1 Nov 2009, several individuals from our research group will be presenting at the Society for the Social Studies of Science conference in Washington, D.C. Papers were proposed into two sessions:
Monitoring, Modeling and Memory (I): New Scientific Infrastructures
- Jillian Wallis. Monitoring the natural world with science and technology.
- Paul Edwards. Frame Work: coordination and conflict in the Earth System Modeling Framework.
- Mikaela Sundberg. Organizing Simulation Code Collectives.
- Sonja Palfner. The Complexity of the Simple: building a data networking infrastructure for climate research in Germany.
- Tom Finholt. The Long Now of Infrastructure: articulating tensions in development.
- Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas. The Long and Short of Cyberinfrastructural Memory.
Monitoring, Modeling and Memory (II): Methods for the study of cyberinfrastructure (and other large distributed phenomena)
- David Fearon. Using nVivo software to support collaborative qualitative research and information workflow.
- David Ribes. Tracing the oligopticons of large technology projects.
- Alberto Pepe. Data collection and network analytic methods for cyberinfrastructure studies.
- Andrea Wiggins. Tales of the Field: Building Small Science Cyberinfrastructure.
- Susan Leigh Star. Outsourcing Ethics, Outsourcing Methods.
Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas
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