I'll then be heading to Arizona State University where I'll presenting the same research but with a policy slant in their Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes.

Finally I'll be attending the first all-hands meeting of the ecological NSF-Research Collaboration Network (RCN) meeting. I am on the advisory board. Should be interesting.

This will be the first presentation of my new research thread focusing on historical ontology and phenomeno-technical change. This is really exciting for me, and there is more to come!

Historical Ontology and Infrastructure

ABSTRACT
We explore the relationship between long-term scientific
infrastructure and its changing objects of research. Specifically,
we focus on the historical changes in HIV disease during the life
of a longitudinal medical study that has been investigating it for
nearly thirty years. We ask: within the study of information
infrastructure and research-based organizations, what are the
things that inherently change, and how do such changes
reverberate through the structure and organization of
infrastructure? In applying the notion of historical ontology to
cyberinfrastructure, we present the groundwork for a broader
understanding of the sustainability of infrastructure within an
environment inherently in flux.

I am also co-organizing (with Jillian Wallis) a discussion panel of Monitoring, Modeling and Memory (MMM) Cyberinfrastructure scholars:

The State of Infrastructure Studies

Paul N. Edwards – What is Infrastructure Studies? (University of Michigan)
Geoffrey C. Bowker – When is Infrastructure? (University of Pittsburgh)
Ayse G. Buyuktur – Method in Infrastructure Studies (University of Michigan)
Steven J. Jackson – Maintenance and Repair (Cornell)
David Ribes – Units of Analysis: Beyond ‘the Project’ (Georgetown)
Jillian C. Wallis & Christine L. Borgman – Collaborative responsibility for scientific data (UCLA)

SATURDAY

153. STS 2.0: Taking the Canon Digital – l
8:30 to 10:00 am
Crowne Plaza: Fuldheim
Chair:
Janet Vertesi, Princeton University
Discussants:
Trevor Pinch, Cornell University
Joshua Mark Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Morana Alac, University of California, San Diego
Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University

173. STS 2.0: Taking the Canon Digital – ll
10:30 to 12:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Fuldheim
Chair:
David Ribes, Georgetown University
Discussants:
Geoffrey Bowker, Santa Clara University
Paul Dourish, University of California at Irvine
E. Gabriella Coleman, New York University
Anita Chan, University of Illinois

I won't be presenting any of my research on (cyber)infrastructure, but here are some great panels:

THURSDAY

013. Collaboration Infrastructures in the Sciences:
Sociotechnical Issues
8:30 to 10:00 am
Crowne Plaza: Van Sweringen
Chair:
Florence Millerand, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Participants:
Open Infrastructure Supporting Heterogeneous Collaboration: The
Case of TelaBotanica. Lorna Heaton, Universite de Montreal;
Florence Millerand, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Integrating Heterogeneity in a Database. Florence Millerand,
Universite du Quebec a Montreal; Olivier Gratton‐Gagné,
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Cyberinfrastructure Supported Interdisciplinarity. Drew Paine,
University of Washington; Tony Ferro, University of Washington
Reuse of Data and Technologies across Cyberinfrastructure
Development Projects. Charlotte P. Lee, University of
Washington; Matthew J. Bietz, University of California Irvine;
Katie Derthick, University of Washington; Drew Paine, University
of Washington

THURSDAY

062. Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity
1:30 to 3:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Hope
Chair:
Elihu M Gerson, Tremont Research Institute
Participants:
The Shape of Information Management: Fostering Collaboration
across Data, Science and Technology in a Design Studio. Joan
Marie Donovan, University of California San Diego; Karen S.
Baker, University of California San Diego/ Scripps Institution of
Oceanography
Scalefree Geographical Mapping of Scientific Collaboration of
Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Olivier H. Beauchesne, Science‐
Metrix, Inc; Éric Archambault, Science‐Metrix, Inc
What Factors Might Affect Physicians for Conducting Collaborative
Research? Yuko Ito, National Institute of Science and Technology
Policy; Hiromi Saito, GRIPS
Junctures: A Kind of Research Organization. Elihu M Gerson,
Tremont Research Institute

THURSDAY

058. Scientometrics and STS
1:30 to 3:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Rockefeller
Chair:
Matthew Mayernik, University of California, Los Angeles
Participants:
Evaluating the Long Now of Cyber‐Science and Engineering. Cory
Philip Knobel, University of Pittsburgh; Astrid Schrader, Sarah
Lawrence College
Interactive Overlays: A New Method for Generating Global Journal
Maps from Web‐of‐Science Data. Loet Leydesdorff, University of
Amsterdam; Ismael Rafols, University of Sussex
Bringing Scientometrics and Science and Technology Studies
Together ‐ Again: Lessons from ANT. Ira Monarch, Carnegie
Mellon
Data Citations in the Geo‐Sciences: Motivations, Measurements,
and Organizational Alignments. Matthew Mayernik, University of
California, Los Angeles

SATURDAY

198. Friction: Data, Metadata and Collaborative Scientific
Work
1:30 to 3:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Grand Ballroom ‐ West
Chair:
Ayse G. Buyuktur, University of Michigan
Participants:
Distribution of Data Management Responsibilities. Jillian C Wallis,
University of California, Los Angeles
S a tur d a y
From Practices to Institutions: Metadata Structures Within
Scientific Collaboratories. Matthew Mayernik, University of
California, Los Angeles; Archer L. Batcheller, University of
Michigan
Of Shrines and Samples: Innovation and Integrity in Long‐Term
Ecological Data Practice. Matt Burton, University of Michigan;
Steven Jackson, University of Michigan
The Science Database as a Communicative Genre. Dharma Akmon,
University of Michigan

SATURDAY

228. Representing the World: Mediation and Database Design
3:30 to 5:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Allen
Chair:
Matthew J. Bietz, University of California Irvine
Participants:
Databases and Metagenomics: Enforcing Genomic Ways of
Knowing. Matthew J. Bietz, University of California Irvine
Constructing Cyberinfrastructure. Cory Philip Knobel, University of
Pittsburgh
Recontexting Disease: Interpreting Shared Data in Cancer
Epidemiology. Betsy Rolland, University of Washington
Impossible Deaths: Facebook’s Exclusion of Mortality in the
Representation of Our Lives. Jed R. Brubaker, University of
California ‐ Irvine
Discussant:
Charlotte P. Lee, University of Washington

The new lab will provide a means for CCT to create partnerships with leading private sector information organizations developing innovations in digital media, knowledge management, and Internet applications; to remain at the forefront of research by creating relationships with initiatives in the Digital Humanities and the Information Schools; and push forward the boundaries of knowledge through external support by agencies and foundations such as NSF and Mellon.

As a major step toward accomplishing this larger mission for CCT, the program seeks to appoint a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a solid knowledge of the key technologies in the post-Internet and digital media environment, and with interdisciplinary expertise in the study of technology, including history, theory, and current methodologies. Applicants must be proficient in teaching the technical aspects of how technologies work and how such technologies are employed in communication-related fields. The appointee will be expected to help teach a new Fundamentals of Technology course, a core course in the CCT curriculum, with a focus on the practicum component.

Georgetown University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates as part of its commitment to professional excellence and diversity. Please send application letter/statement of interest, c.v., and the names of three referees to cctjobs@georgetown.edu by 15 September 2011.

Sociotechnical Studies of Cyberinfrastructure and e-Research: Current Themes and Future Trajectories

David Ribes and Charlotte P. Lee

Synergizing in Cyberinfrastructure Development

Matthew J. Bietz, Eric P. S. Baumer and Charlotte P. Lee

The Dialectical Tensions in the Funding Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure

Kerk F. Kee and Larry D. Browning

Reconfiguring Evidence: Interacting with Digital Objects in Scientific Practice

Marko Monteiro

Reusing Scientific Data: How Earthquake Engineering Researchers Assess the Reusability of Colleagues’ Data

Ixchel M. Faniel and Trond E. Jacobsen

Infrastructure Time: Long-term Matters in Collaborative Development

Helena Karasti, Karen S. Baker and Florence Millerand

Schedule and Submission Process