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Sustaining the development of cyberinfrastructure: an organization adapting to change

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Matthew J. Bietz,

Charlotte P. LeeAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '12: Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Pages 901 - 910

https://doi.org/10.1145/2145204.2145339

Published: 11 February 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Cyberinfrastructures are virtual organizations comprised of people and large-scale scientific computational infrastructures. Cyberinfrastructures endeavor to support "cutting-edge" science and must continually evolve and be under development in order to maintain their relevance and usefulness. This qualitative study of a cyberinfrastructure development project to support the new science of metagenomics investigates how sustaining cyberinfrastructure entails continually realigning the relationships among people, technologies, and organizations.

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