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2. November 2005SNAC2 Words (used across 3 or more groups) Defined: community, scope Identifying: developers, early adopters, mechanism of support Support: developers (recognition), network evolution, advancement of models Maintain: software, data Collaboration: indexed, measured, potential Interoperability: software Data: define community, share, access, maintain, store, curate, complexity, management

3. November 2005SNAC3 Defining Scope and functionality Mobilization and Development Adoption, Deployment, Utilization Scaling, Security and Sustainability Defining Community, Scope Core CI issues Identifying Developers, Colleagues First adopters, Cross boundaries, Mechanisms of support Supporting Network evolution, Developers Advancement of models, users Maintaining Data, knowledge and tools software Collaboration Index, Potential, Technologies How to measure Interoperability SoftwareAchieve, Standards SoftwarePolicy and procedures Data Define community, Collected by SN Access, Maintenance Sharing, Curation Mining, MetadataComplexity Size, Management

4. November 2005SNAC4 Take-homes from each group Community incentives CI development is social process Brokering shared understanding Map the community Must be designed and implemented together Ongoing iterative process It’s all about building trust Community resource management Sustaining, forever

5. November 2005SNAC5 SN4CI Goals 1.Identification of developers/designers 2.Identification of potential collaborators 3.Identification of resources: human and technical 4.Using SNA to analysis, management and organisation of our own community 5.Making people aware of their social network 6.Management 7.Research portfolio analysis 8.Bringing SN thinking to CI Influence, diffusion, mobilization, exploration, exploitation, collective actions, network exchange theory,.. What networks are possible, what networks are efficient 9.Maximise development and flow of social capital (ROI in human capital?)

6. November 2005SNAC6 Top SN4CI research questions 1.What ARE the linkages / useful relationships that enable you to identify the relations that help you achieve your goals 2.Metrics and evaluation of network, impact of CI 3.Extending beyond people – “cybercorporations” – human and non-human agents – knowledge networks 4.How to generate trust within CI context 5.Social provenance of information 6.How to engender consensus eg consensus ontologies, emergence, folksonomies 7.IPR, incentives for knowledge sharing, institutional context

7. November 2005SNAC7 8.Instrumenting the social network to determine influence of contributions 9.Notion of public good, open source,… 10.Using tools to analyse institutional context of research universities 11.Interventions of technology, co-evolution of technology and network 12.Supporting collaboration, communication 13.Improve approach to Virtual Organisations beyond e.g. GGF 14.VO = identification, sharing, shared ontology. Current ontology solutions don’t handle evolution, limit expression

8. November 2005SNAC8 Potential Approaches Bringing SN researchers to particular venues of CI implementation –Educational venues –Specific scientific communities –Developer meetings (identifying network of CI-Developers). Integrate SN tools with virtual venues (with explicit consent requests) –Identification of cultural concerns within CI community. Potentially unique from others- Soc. Sci. question

9. November 2005SNAC9 Statement to Congress(?) NSF has developed immense resources to support science research and education, the critical addition that SN provides is a mapping and linkage of those resources to increase accessibility and utilization of these resources by diverse communities + studying the beast that has been created