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Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative

Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative. July 17-18. 2003 Bertram C. Bruce Library & Information Science U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Outline. Welcome History What we learned Implications Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative. History-1.

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Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative

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  1. Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative July 17-18. 2003 Bertram C. Bruce Library & Information Science U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2. Outline • Welcome • History • What we learned • Implications • Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  3. History-1 • 1997-Alaina Kanfer brings together group to discuss collaboration and technology • -NSF Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence (KDI)--Knowledge Networking; Learning and Intelligent Systems; New Computational Challenges • 1998-proposal to KDI Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  4. History-2 • 1999-DK project funded: Can Knowledge Be Distributed? The Dynamics of Knowledge in Interdisciplinary Alliances • group disperses (Alaina -> Born; Geof -> UCSD; Jim -> Wisconsin; Joe -> Emory; Chip -> GSLIS) • 2000-DKRC established • 2002-DK course • 2003-DK/DKRC workshop Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  5. History-outcomes • workshops, presentations, commissions, articles, books • dissertations • DK course, course units • Inquiry Page • DKRC website Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  6. Distributed Knowledge course addresses conflict: • authentic and efficient knowledge creation and sharing is embedded in interpersonal, face-to-face contexts, • technologies to support distributed knowledge processes assume that knowledge can be made mobile outside of these specific contexts Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  7. Inquiry Page • Resource for inquiry teaching philosophy • Collaborative teaching & learning community • DK outreach project • Site to study distributed knowledge Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  8. What we learned • problems with the vision • appropriate technology wins • alternate realizations bloom • technology is an end, as well as a means (pragmatic technology) • challenges: DK is difficult to study Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  9. How does embedded knowledge become mobile? Knowledge Technology Community Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  10. Study of the Alliance/NCSA New ways of doing science in distributed teams • => Application Technologies • Enabling Technologies • Education, Outreach, & Training Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  11. Application Technologies teams • http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/alliance/partners/ApplicationTechnologies/ • cosmology, environmental hydrology, molecular biology, chemical engineering, nanomaterials, scientific instrumentation Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  12. Enabling Technologies teams • http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/alliance/partners/EnablingTechnologies/ • parallel computing, distributed systems, data and collaboration Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  13. Alliance vision Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  14. Problems with the vision • EOT often shows the greatest impact • But it doesn't use AT enough, and AT doesn't use ET enough • Successes often emerge from user community and are fed back into the Alliance • Large structure w/o clear lines of control leads to politics, miscommunications, difficulty in planning, failures to collaborate effectively Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  15. Astronomy Digital Imaging Library (ADIL) • developed and maintained by the Radio Astronomy Imaging Group • "collect astronomical, research-quality images and make them available to the astronomical community and the general public" Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  16. Appropriate technology • Addresses existing problems • limited access to equipment • need attribution for image work • Reconfigurations • Worldwide collaboration • New modes of publishing Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  17. Waterfall model Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  18. Reverse the flow? Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  19. Pragmatic technology technology as the means for resolving a problematic situation -- Larry Hickman (1990), John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  20. Alternate realizations Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  21. Challenges • Challenges in the Practice and Study of Distributed Interdisciplinary, Collaboration Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  22. Implications • technology studies • collaboration studies • evaluation • design Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  23. Technology studies • Adaptive structuration: substitution, enlargement, reconfiguration (Giddens, Poole, Contractor, …) • Longitudinal studies • User response, reception theory • Ecological analysis (Bruce & Hogan, 1997; Nardi & O'Day, 1999) Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  24. Collaboration studies • Social network analysis • Third space • Distributed argumentative activity • Distributed collective practice Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  25. Evaluation • Need to understand diverse realizations • Innovation begins with the user • Technology as a tool for its own re-creation • Situated evaluation (Bruce et al., 1993; Twidale, 1993) Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  26. Design • Design inseparable from use • User-centered design • Participatory design (Bjerknes et al., 1987) • Equitable relations (Clark, 1993) • An idea about technology (Menand, 2001) Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  27. DKRC assumptions • need perspectives/methodologies of multiple disciplines, • some knowledge processes can be distributed across disciplines, time, institutions, & geography. Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  28. DKRC purpose • study how knowledge is produced, shared, negotiated, and co-constructed within distributed communities, and the ways in which technologies affect these exchanges • build knowledge base • space for collaboration Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

  29. Goals for the workshop • establish stronger ties • share results of ongoing work • discuss future collaborations--conferences, listservs, website • celebrate accomplishments Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC

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