Infrastructure Time: Long-term Matters in Collaborative Development

摘要: This paper addresses the collaborative development of information infrastructure for supporting data-rich scientific collaboration. Studying empirically not only in terms spatial issues but also, and equally importantly, temporal ones, we illustrate how long-term matters. Our case is about a metadata standard an ecological research domain. It complex example where standards are recognized as one element standard-making efforts include integration semantic work software tools development. With focus on scales short-term long-term, analyze practices views main parties involved standard. contributions three-fold: 1) extension notion to more explicitly dimension; 2) identification two distinct orientations work, namely `project time' `infrastructure time', 3) association related orientations, particularly `continuing design' orientation that recognizes time'. We conclude by highlighting need enrich understandings temporality CSCW, towards longer time diversified hybrids draws attention manifold ramifications extended scales, suggests CSCW e-Research infrastructures.