Data Integration as Coordination

Recent CSCW research on the collaborative design and development of infrastructures for natural sciences has increasingly focused challenges open data sharing. This qualitative study describes analyzes how multidisciplinary, geographically distributed ocean scientists are integrating highly diverse as part an effort to develop a new infrastructure advance science. paper identifies different kinds coordination that necessary align processes collection, production, analysis. Some hard work integrate is undertaken before integration can even become technical problem. After becomes problem, social organizational means continue be critical resolving differences in assumptions, methods, practices, priorities. calls attention diversity coordinative, social, practices concerns needed also how, innovative work, process helps define scientific problem spaces themselves.