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Procter, Rob, Voss, Alex and Asgari-Targhi, Marzieh (2013) Fostering the human infrastructure of e-research. Information, Communication & Society, Volume 16 (Number 10). pp. 1668-1691. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2012.715667 ISSN 1468-4462.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.715667
Abstract
Findings from an in-depth study of problems faced by the UK e-Research community – researchers, institutionally based support services and national e-Infrastructure service providers – as they struggle with the challenges of widening the adoption of e-Infrastructure, exploiting its potential benefits and embedding it into everyday research practices are presented. The findings show that e-Infrastructure is often seen by users (both current and potential) as complex and challenging. It is also clear that current users often experience frustrations, while potential users may be unaware of its benefits and of how to take the first steps towards exploiting them. The findings highlight the scale of problems arising from the failure of the human infrastructure – the networks (both formal and informal) of actors essential to effective exploitation of innovations – to develop and keep pace with the technical infrastructure. The article concludes by discussing a number of interventions that the e-Research community might make in order to re-align the capabilities of the human infrastructure with those of the technical infrastructure.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Information, Communication & Society | ||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
| ISSN: | 1468-4462 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 16 | ||||
| Number: | Number 10 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1668-1691 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/1369118X.2012.715667 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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