Reports from two 2017 RCN Workshops on the CI Workforce now available:

Organizing and the Cyberinfrastructure Workforce (Berente, N., Howison, J., King, J.L., Ahalt, S., Winter, S.) – Report from the RCN Workshop in Alexandria, Virginia in 2017.

Professionalization in Cyberinfrastructure (Berente, N., Howison, J., Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J., King, J.L., Barley, S., Towns, J.) – Report from the RCN Workshop in Santa Barbara, California in 2017.

For all reports from the RCN workshops and associated materials, see: Reports & Proposals

National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network Workshop

Theme: “Cyberinfrastructure Workforce”

Location: Alexandria, Virginia (near the new National Science Foundation location)

Date: August 14 & 15, 2017

This workshop brings together cyberinfrastructure experts and organizational experts to discuss topics around the emerging cyberinfrastructure workforce that is increasingly important to science.

For details about the workshop see:  Workshop home page

Supported by NSF RCN Award #1148996 (“RCN for Managing Collaborative Centers”).

“Knowledge Infrastructures” Workshop

Date: December 7-8, 2015

Location: University of Washington, Seattle

For details on the upcoming RCN workshop:

Knowledge Infrastructures Workshop home

Our goal is to bring together North American and European researchers investigating infrastructure, with an interest in knowledge infrastructures in scientific and corporate domains. We have drawn most of our invitees from the US based “Knowledge Infrastructures” workshop and the European-based series of meetings on “Innovation in Information Infrastructures” workshop.

For a list of participants, see:

Knowledge Infrastructure Workshop Participants

The second RCN Workshop was held in in 2013, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a report is available.

The report is entitled “Leading Cyberinfrastructure Enterprise: Value Propositions, Stakeholders, and Measurement” and themes include:

• Challenges of CI enterprise leaders
• A “Capability Maturity Model” for understanding and communicating CI enterprise value
• Four dimensions fo CI enterprise value: science, innovation, workforce, economic
• An example of workforce value and CI diaspora.

The authors of this report are Nick Berente (UGA), James Howison (UT-Austin), John King (Michigan), Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (UIUC), and Rob Pennington (NCSA). The report is available on-line at SSRN:

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2416247

The first VOSS Workshop was held in May 14-16, 2012, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a report is available.

The report is entitled “Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems: Exploring How Organization Scientists and Virtual Organization Leaders Can Collaborate” and themes include:

• Challenges to collaboration between VO practitioners and organization scientists
• Potential relationships between VO practitioners and organization scientists
• Avenues for collaboration going forward.

The authors of this report are Nick Berente (UGA), James Howison (UT-Austin), John King (Michigan), Kalle Lyytinen (Case), and Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (XSEDE). The report is available on-line at SSRN:

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2204092

“Leading Cyberinfrastructure Enterprise” Workshop

Date: February 14-16, 2013

Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

This invitation-only workshop has two  broad objectives:

• To bring together CI leaders with organizational researchers to focus on issues associated with leading CI enterprises, including: sustaining CI organizations; understanding and communicating value propositions for CI; and making the case for CI organizations. 

• To gather specific needs to be addressed at special seminars and “science executive education” courses for CI enterprise leaders that will be produced later in 2013 and beyond.

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The report from the first “Managing Cyberinfrastructure Centers Workshop” is now available. In the report, we present an  overview of the themes we have identified in our research around managing CI centers.

The report is entitled “Managing CI Centers: An Agenda for Organizational Scholarship and Cyberinfrastructure Innovation,” and the themes include:

• CI Centers as “Stewards” of Infrastructure Innovation
• CI Center Leaders as Entrepreneurs
• Resource Scarcity and Cyberinfrastructure Innovation
• Scientific Software Ecosystems
• Assessing CI Center Impact
• An Agenda for Organizational Scholarship and CI Centers

The authors of the report are Nick Berente, Jennifer Claggett, and Joe Rubleske (UGA) in collaboration with James Howison (UT Austin) and Cory Knobel (UC Irvine). You can download it from SSRN:

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2128872