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

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC2 Outline Welcome History What we learned Implications Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC3 History Alaina Kanfer brings together group to discuss collaboration and technology -NSF Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence (KDI)--Knowledge Networking; Learning and Intelligent Systems; New Computational ChallengesNSF Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence 1998-proposal to KDI

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC4 History 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

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC5 History-outcomes workshops, presentations, commissions, articles, books dissertations DK course, course units Inquiry Page DKRC website

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC6 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

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC7 Resource for inquiry teaching philosophy Collaborative teaching & learning community DK outreach project Site to study distributed knowledge Inquiry Page

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC8 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

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC9 How does embedded knowledge become mobile? Knowledge TechnologyCommunity

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC10 Study of the Alliance/NCSA New ways of doing science in distributed teams => Application Technologies Enabling Technologies Education, Outreach, & Training

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC11 Application Technologies teams ers/ApplicationTechnologies/ ers/ApplicationTechnologies/ cosmology, environmental hydrology, molecular biology, chemical engineering, nanomaterials, scientific instrumentation

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC12 Enabling Technologies teams ers/EnablingTechnologies/ ers/EnablingTechnologies/ parallel computing, distributed systems, data and collaboration

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC13 Alliance vision

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC14 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

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC15 Astronomy Digital Imaging Library (ADIL)ADIL developed and maintained by the Radio Astronomy Imaging GroupRadio Astronomy Imaging Group "collect astronomical, research-quality images and make them available to the astronomical community and the general public"

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC16 Appropriate technology Addresses existing problems –limited access to equipment –need attribution for image work Reconfigurations –Worldwide collaboration –New modes of publishing

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC17 Waterfall model

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC18 Reverse the flow?

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC19 Pragmatic technology technology as the means for resolving a problematic situation -- Larry Hickman (1990), John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC20 Alternate realizations

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC21 Challenges Challenges in the Practice and Study of Distributed Interdisciplinary, Collaboration

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC22 Implications technology studies collaboration studies evaluation design

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC23 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)

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC24 Collaboration studies Social network analysis Third space Distributed argumentative activity Distributed collective practice

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC25 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)

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC26 Design Design inseparable from use User-centered design Participatory design (Bjerknes et al., 1987) Equitable relations (Clark, 1993) An idea about technology (Menand, 2001)

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC27 DKRC assumptions need perspectives/methodologies of multiple disciplines, some knowledge processes can be distributed across disciplines, time, institutions, & geography.

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC28 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

17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC29 Goals for the workshop establish stronger ties share results of ongoing work discuss future collaborations--conferences, listservs, website celebrate accomplishments