TY - JOUR
T1 - Best social and organizational practices of successful science gateways and cyberinfrastructure projects
AU - Kee, Kerk F.
AU - Schrock, Andrew R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Kerk F. Kee (Ph.D.) is an associate professor at Chapman University. He is a communication researcher and an interdisciplinary social scientist of innovations. His research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He holds a prestigious 5-year NSF CAREER grant (2015–2020), awarded by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under NSF’s Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate. Based on Google Scholar Citations in May 2018, his research has been cited more than 3,600 times.
Funding Information:
We thank Rion Dooley, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, and John Towns for their support of this project. Additional thanks to Mona Sleiman for her early contribution to this article. This study was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, United States , Grant # OAC 1322305 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - The majority of research on science gateways has focused on technological tools. However, the teams behind the tools also play a critical role in determining whether science gateways are successful. This article reports 12 social and organizational practices of successful science gateways and cyberinfrastructure (CI) projects that emerged out of an analysis of 98 interviews with domain scientists, computational technologists, and supercomputing/research center administrators across the US and some in EU. Social practices include seeking multidisciplinary expertise, setting shared goals, using common language, having bridging liaisons, establishing productive routines, and meeting face-to-face. Organizational practices include demonstrating altruistic leadership, having clear roles, engaging user feedback, raising sustainable funding, growing organizational capacity, and maintaining personnel continuity. By asking a series of simple questions for reflection, science gateway teams can generate strategies to increase their likelihood of successful outcomes.
AB - The majority of research on science gateways has focused on technological tools. However, the teams behind the tools also play a critical role in determining whether science gateways are successful. This article reports 12 social and organizational practices of successful science gateways and cyberinfrastructure (CI) projects that emerged out of an analysis of 98 interviews with domain scientists, computational technologists, and supercomputing/research center administrators across the US and some in EU. Social practices include seeking multidisciplinary expertise, setting shared goals, using common language, having bridging liaisons, establishing productive routines, and meeting face-to-face. Organizational practices include demonstrating altruistic leadership, having clear roles, engaging user feedback, raising sustainable funding, growing organizational capacity, and maintaining personnel continuity. By asking a series of simple questions for reflection, science gateway teams can generate strategies to increase their likelihood of successful outcomes.
KW - Adoption
KW - Best practices
KW - Cyberinfrastructure
KW - Diffusion
KW - Organizational factors
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U2 - 10.1016/j.future.2018.04.063
DO - 10.1016/j.future.2018.04.063
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047100669
SN - 0167-739X
VL - 94
SP - 795
EP - 801
JO - Future Generation Computer Systems
JF - Future Generation Computer Systems
ER -