Scientific infrastructure design: Information environments and knowledge provinces
Scientific infrastructure design: Information environments and knowledge provinces
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科学的基础设施设计：信息环境和知识省
DOI：
10.1002/meet.1450440370
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Florence Millerand
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文献类型：
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作者：
K. Baker;Florence Millerand
概念模型和设计过程塑造了科学领域信息基础设施建设的实践。我们考虑了两个不同的观点：(i)非中介化的网络观点，其中信息技术使数据从“现场”流向一般最终用户的数字门口，以及（ii）双向通信的中介观点，其中本地参与者在信息环境中充当中介。从信息系统和科学研究的文献中，我们认为概念模型的差异对用户和他们的工作环境有重要的影响。虽然网络观点在当前的科学努力中受到了很多关注，但强调知识领域的多样性及其各自的世界观，开辟了对社会技术设计过程和知识工作的理解。一系列知识省的概念能够描述具有移动边界的动态配置，并支持跨数字景观的各种安排的规划。
Conceptual models and design processes shape the practice of information infrastructure building in the sciences. We consider two distinct perspectives: (i) a cyber view of disintermediation where information technology enables data flow from the ‘field’ and on to the digital doorstep of the general end-user, and (ii) an intermediated view with bidirectional communications where local participants act as mediators within an information environment. Drawing from the literatures of information systems and science studies, we argue that differences in conceptual models have critical implications for users and their working environments. While the cyber view is receiving a lot of attention in current scientific efforts, highlighting the multiplicity of knowledge provinces with their respective worldviews opens up understandings of sociotechnical design processes and of knowledge work. The concept of a range of knowledge provinces enables description of dynamic configurations with shifting boundaries and supports planning for a diversity of arrangements across the digital landscape.