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Infrastructures From the Bottom-Up and the Top-Down: Can They Meet in the Middle?

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TitleInfrastructures From the Bottom-Up and the Top-Down: Can They Meet in the Middle?
Publication TypeConference Proceedings
Year of Publication2008
Refereed DesignationRefereed
AuthorsTwidale, M. B., and Floyd I. R.
Secondary TitleProceedings Participatory Design Conference 2008
Pagination238-241.
Abstract

Based on a study of participatory design in the development of cyberinfrastructure involving the rapid composition of open source software and web services, we consider cases where researchers create their own ad hoc infrastructures out of available software. We compare "top- down" and "bottom-up" cyberinfrastructure development and speculate on whether the two approaches can be productively combined.
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/2142/9526