DATA INTEGRATION AS COORDINATION

The Articulation of Data Work in an Ocean Science Collaboration

 
 
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This qualitative study describes and analyzes how multidisciplinary, geographically distributed ocean scientists are integrating highly diverse data as part of an effort to develop a new research infrastructure to advance science.

Research Methodologies

Participant Observation

Interviews

Document and Artifact Analysis

Collaborators

Andrew Neang

Will Sutherland

Michael W. Beach

Charlotte P. Lee

Timeline

9/2017 — Current

We identify different kinds of coordination that are necessary to align processes of:

 
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Data collection
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Production
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Analysis
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Some of the hard work to integrate data is undertaken before data integration can even become a technical problem.

After data integration becomes a technical problem, social and organizational means continue to be critical for resolving differences in assumptions, methods, practices, and priorities.

This work calls attention to the diversity of coordinative, social, and organizational practices and concerns that are needed to integrate data and also how, in highly innovative work, the process of integrating data also helps to define scientific problem spaces themselves.

The CMAP Project

 

The Convergence Actors

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