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SN4CI

November 2005 SNAC 2

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

November 2005 SNAC 3

Defining Scope and functionality

Mobilization and Development

Adoption, Deployment, Utilization

Scaling, Security and Sustainability

Defining Community, Scope

Core CI issues

Identifying Developers, Colleagues

First adopters, Cross boundaries,

Mechanisms of support

Supporting Network evolution,

Developers

Advancement of models, users

Maintaining Data, knowledge and tools

software

Collaboration Index, Potential, Technologies

How to measure

Interoperability Software Achieve, Standards

Software Policy and procedures

Data Define community,

Collected by SN

Access, Maintenance

Sharing, Curation

Mining, Metadata Complexity

Size, Management

November 2005 SNAC 4

Take-homes from each group

• 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

November 2005 SNAC 5

SN4CI Goals1. Identification of developers/designers2. Identification of potential collaborators3. Identification of resources: human and technical4. Using SNA to analysis, management and organisation

of our own community5. Making people aware of their social network6. Management7. Research portfolio analysis8. Bringing SN thinking to CI

• Influence, diffusion, mobilization, exploration, exploitation, collective actions, network exchange theory, ..

• What networks are possible, what networks are efficient

9. Maximise development and flow of social capital (ROI in human capital?)

November 2005 SNAC 6

Top SN4CI research questions1. What ARE the linkages / useful relationships that

enable you to identify the relations that help you achieve your goals

2. Metrics and evaluation of network, impact of CI3. Extending beyond people – “cybercorporations” –

human and non-human agents – knowledge networks4. How to generate trust within CI context5. Social provenance of information6. How to engender consensus eg consensus ontologies,

emergence, folksonomies7. IPR, incentives for knowledge sharing, institutional

context

November 2005 SNAC 7

8. Instrumenting the social network to determine influence of contributions

9. Notion of public good, open source,…10. Using tools to analyse institutional context of research

universities 11. Interventions of technology, co-evolution of technology

and network12. Supporting collaboration, communication13. Improve approach to Virtual Organisations beyond e.g.

GGF 14. VO = identification, sharing, shared ontology. Current

ontology solutions don’t handle evolution, limit expression

November 2005 SNAC 8

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

November 2005 SNAC 9

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