A group at the University of Chicago, Department of Sociology, is involved in a study of how networking, distributed databases, grid computing, etc., are affecting both software development and scientific research. The US National Virtual Observatory is of particular interest to them. They have developed a survey to help judge the impact of these new technologies, and I encourage you to take a few minutes to fill it out (they say it takes 20 minutes, but it is more like 5-10). Some of the language of the survey is pretty technical, but overall it is not too bad. They will share the results with the NVO project, and this could be helpful to our understanding of how to focus our energies in the future to make the VO more useful.
So, please have a look. What follows is the invitation to participate from the survey leader at U. Chicago, and then there is a link to the survey itself.
Thank you,
Bob Hanisch
US-VO Project Manager
Dear colleagues,
The University of Chicago/National Opinion Research Center,
the Oxford Internet Institute, the University of Applied
Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and empirica Communication
and Technology Research collaborate on a study that will
propose strategies to enhance e-Infrastructure
(Cyberinfrastructure) uptake and use in different fields of
science. The work is done on behalf of the European
Commission, Directorate General Information Society and Media,
and results will be shared with the NSF and other interested
parties.
In order to have our community represented well in the study
and to help our planning, please take approximately 20 minutes
to fill in their online questionnaire before July 31st.
If you have additional questions and comments please contact
the project team directly at eResearch2020@empirica.com.
The link to the survey: http://tinyurl.com/mtaklr
Thank you for your input!
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Zack Kertcher
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Sociology
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
kertcher@uchicago.edu
(773) 493-3360
http://home.uchicago.edu/~kertcher/
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