Laying the groundwork to investigate scientist's structures and resources in their information environment

The set up to a case study that examined the interactions of a group of interdisciplinary social scientists conducting a systematic review of their research area examines why and how to investigate the information structures and resources relevant in science practice. Partners in other components of a national scale cyberinfrastructure project to develop systems that manage science data periodically perturbed this small group. Their resulting interactions provided an enhanced ability to explore socially versus locally contributed structures related to the resources that established their information environment. Coding and analysis of recorded progress meeting and interview transcripts and related artifacts created through the research process should reveal the structures attributable to information systems or disciplinary practice that these scientists attended to, engaged with, and created. The purpose of the coding is to give greater definition to resources from a practice viewpoint in order to support interdisciplinary eScience research via information systems. Also of interest in pursuing the case study is the impact of an informatician participating with the scientists as they conducted their project.

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