From yilmaz at auburn.edu Mon Jul 21 12:48:36 2008 From: yilmaz at auburn.edu (Levent Yilmaz) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:48:36 -0500 Subject: [sc-discuss] Ethnographic Analysis of Virtual Scientific Communities Message-ID: <488477A5.2CD3.00C5.0@auburn.edu> Hello, I am the PI of a new NSF grant on dynamics of innovation in Virtual Scientific Communities. Part of our project involves using computer-aided ethnographic analysis of data gleaned from scientific communities to develop foundational hypotheses for use in computer simulations of such innovation communities. Your HealthCommons initiative (specifically NeuroCommons) seems to be an extremely useful resource for us to gain insight about co-evolution of artifacts and community members. As per the request from NSF and the IRB board of Auburn University, I am checking to see if we can have access to available data that you can share with us in such a way that if human subjects data is involved, individuals and their private information will not be identifiable. What we intend to do is to develop graph representations of subjects (in terms of their IDs) and objects (scientific artiffacts) that they produce as a community evolves. I look forward to a mutually beneficial collaboration with Scientific Commons and Health Commons project. Best Regards, Levent Yilmaz http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~yilmaz Associate Professor Computer Science and Software Engineering Auburn University Auburn, AL 36830