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

2. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC2 Outline Welcome History What we learned Implications Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative

3. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC3 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 ChallengesNSF Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence 1998-proposal to KDI

4. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC4 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

5. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC5 History-outcomes workshops, presentations, commissions, articles, books dissertations DK course, course units Inquiry Page DKRC website

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC9 How does embedded knowledge become mobile? Knowledge TechnologyCommunity

10. 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

11. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC11 Application Technologies teams http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/alliance/partn ers/ApplicationTechnologies/http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/alliance/partn ers/ApplicationTechnologies/ cosmology, environmental hydrology, molecular biology, chemical engineering, nanomaterials, scientific instrumentation

12. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC12 Enabling Technologies teams http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/alliance/partn ers/EnablingTechnologies/http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/alliance/partn ers/EnablingTechnologies/ parallel computing, distributed systems, data and collaboration

13. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC13 Alliance vision

14. 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

15. 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"

16. 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. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC17 Waterfall model

18. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC18 Reverse the flow?

19. 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

20. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC20 Alternate realizations

21. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC21 Challenges Challenges in the Practice and Study of Distributed Interdisciplinary, Collaboration

22. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC22 Implications technology studies collaboration studies evaluation design

23. 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)

24. 17 July, 2003Bertram C. Bruce, UIUC24 Collaboration studies Social network analysis Third space Distributed argumentative activity Distributed collective practice

25. 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)

26. 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)

27. 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.

28. 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

29. 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