Palmer LTER WHAT DO YOU MEAN its the

Palmer LTER WHAT DO YOU MEAN it’s the Decade of Synthesis ? HOW ABOUT a decade of integration !! WHAT ABOUT the decade of organization And organizational informatics ? !?

Palmer LTER Presenting LTER Information Manager voices … A Report: The Long-Term Information Management Trajectory: Working to Support Data, Science, and Technology, 2003 Science metadata technology future service structured IM narrative IM current science manage design data Data Technology We invite reflection, comments and suggestions.

Palmer LTER is not a traditional network

Palmer LTER In the Decade of Synthesis • Keep your eye on the data (a product) • Reflect on scientific collaboration (a process) Doing Science Differently Collaborative Science the Dark Side or …. the Light Side plus? Finland LTER

Palmer LTER Continuing the Dialogue So… • How do we scale technically? • How do we scale scientific collaboration? • How do we articulate the socio-technical issues? Our approach: • Partnership between environmental, information and social science • Ethnography in the Wild: LTER modified participatory design strategy HICSS 04: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. KSBaker and HKarasti, 2004. Infrastructuring for the Long-Term: Ecological Information Management. Hawaii International Conference for System Science (accepted) Together at sea