NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE! Call for Papers Special Issue of JCSCW Supporting Scientific Collaboration Through Cyberinfrastructure and e-Science Guest Editors: Charlotte P. Lee, David Ribes, Matthew Bietz , Marina Jirotka, and Helena Karasti Scientific collaboration using cyberinfrastructure (CI), or e-Science, is forward facing. e-Science projects aim to support the collaboration of research communities, whether by facilitating distanced collaboration or sharing data and computational resources. The most ambitious e-Science projects are creating entirely novel scientific fields, anticipating and actively cultivating new scientific…

Matt and Charlotte recently returned from the European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) in beautiful and elegant Vienna, Austria. In addition to enjoying the local sites and cuisine, they attended a one-day workshop on Infrastructures and Infrastructuring and also presented their paper “Collaboration in Metagenomics: Sequence Databases and the Organization of Scientific Work” in the main conference. Abstract: In this paper we conduct an ethnographic study of work to explore the interaction between scientific collaboration and computing technologies…

Wow, even KOMO TV is excited about the Kindle DX pilot project! While their article isn’t exactly hard-hitting