Transcript Summary and discussion of social network analysis for

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SN4CI
Words (used across 3 or more groups)
• Defined: community, scope
• Identifying: developers, early adopters,
mechanism of support
• Support: developers (recognition), network
evolution, advancement of models
• Maintain: software, data
• Collaboration: indexed, measured, potential
• Interoperability: software
• Data: define community, share, access,
maintain, store, curate, complexity, management
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Defining
Defining Scope Mobilization
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functionality
Development
Adoption,
Deployment,
Utilization
Community,
Scope
Core CI issues
Developers,
Colleagues
Identifying
First adopters,
Cross boundaries,
Mechanisms of
support
Network evolution,
Developers
Supporting
Data, knowledge
and tools
Maintaining
Scaling,
Security and
Sustainability
Advancement of
models, users
software
Collaboration
Index, Potential,
Technologies
Interoperability
Software
Achieve,
Standards
Software
Policy and
procedures
Data
Define
community,
Collected by SN
Access,
Maintenance
Sharing, Curation
Mining, Metadata
Complexity
Size,
Management
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How to measure
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Take-homes from each group
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Community incentives
CI development is social process
Brokering shared understanding
Map the community
Must be designed and implemented together
Ongoing iterative process
It’s all about building trust
Community resource management
Sustaining, forever
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SN4CI Goals
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Identification of developers/designers
Identification of potential collaborators
Identification of resources: human and technical
Using SNA to analysis, management and organisation
of our own community
Making people aware of their social network
Management
Research portfolio analysis
Bringing SN thinking to CI
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Influence, diffusion, mobilization, exploration, exploitation,
collective actions, network exchange theory, ..
What networks are possible, what networks are efficient
Maximise development and flow of social capital (ROI
in human capital?)
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Top SN4CI research questions
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What ARE the linkages / useful relationships that
enable you to identify the relations that help you
achieve your goals
Metrics and evaluation of network, impact of CI
Extending beyond people – “cybercorporations” –
human and non-human agents – knowledge networks
How to generate trust within CI context
Social provenance of information
How to engender consensus eg consensus ontologies,
emergence, folksonomies
IPR, incentives for knowledge sharing, institutional
context
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Instrumenting the social network to determine
influence of contributions
Notion of public good, open source,…
Using tools to analyse institutional context of research
universities
Interventions of technology, co-evolution of technology
and network
Supporting collaboration, communication
Improve approach to Virtual Organisations beyond e.g.
GGF
VO = identification, sharing, shared ontology. Current
ontology solutions don’t handle evolution, limit
expression
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Potential Approaches
• Bringing SN researchers to particular
venues of CI implementation
– Educational venues
– Specific scientific communities
– Developer meetings (identifying network of
CI-Developers).
• Integrate SN tools with virtual venues (with
explicit consent requests)
– Identification of cultural concerns within CI
community.
• Potentially unique from others- Soc. Sci. question
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Statement to Congress(?)
• NSF has developed immense resources to
support science research and education,
the critical addition that SN provides is a
mapping and linkage of those resources to
increase accessibility and utilization of
these resources by diverse communities
+ studying the beast that has been created
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