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Use it or lose it: Crowdsourcing support and outreach activities in a hybrid sustainability model for e-infrastructures The ViBRANT project case studies. Koureas D ., Livermore L., Roberts D. & Smith V. Biodiversity Informatics Group | Department of Life Sciences - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Use it or lose it: Crowdsourcing support and outreach activities in a
hybrid sustainability model for e-infrastructures The ViBRANT project case studies
Koureas D., Livermore L., Roberts D. & Smith V.
Biodiversity Informatics Group | Department of Life SciencesNatural History Museum, London
@dimitriskoureas doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.830497
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Maintenance
Funding application
Project starts
Project ends
Development phase
No further funding or gap in funding for development
?
The ephemeral lifecycle of a project
680 Biodiversity Information projects
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“…telephones do not crash; power supplies do not
fluctuate; and clocks do not halt (in general). Similarly,
a computational tool (…) must be reliable across
time, it must be maintained.”1
1 Ribes D., Finholt T.A. 2007 Proceedings of the third International Conference on e-Social Science
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Project InfrastructureDiscoveryIndividualistic
EphemeralOptionalRisk taking
ImplementationCommunal / agreed
PersistentEssential
Robust & reliable
Adapted from Patterson D. 2013, Tempe, Arizona
Transition from
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Maturation indices?
Sustainability criteria?
Funding for maintenance?
How can we secure the future of our projects?
but…
so…
Post-project sustainability is always a major concern
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“An infrastructure must be taken as a process instead of a system.”
Shift in the way we think of e-infrastructures and information resources
Stable/rigid system Dynamic/open process
Outsource to and involve the end user community
We need to set up the environment that will enable the community contribution
Koerten, H. & van den Besselaar P. 2013. Sustainable Taxonomic Infrastructures: System or Process?
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For your community to support youyou first have to build one
Confidence
Commitment Longevity
Agility
AdaptabilityUser monitoring
Marketing
VisibilityIntuitive interface
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Infrastructure maintenance
Technical maintenance
Open source & modular
User support
Crowdsourcing support activities
Maximising support
efficiency
Is building your user base enough?
Not if you want to nurture a community based sustainability model
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A network of compatible services with no single point of failure
So… how did ViBRANT go?
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Low
Medium
High
Scratchpads
Platform for Cybertaxonomy
Biowikifarm
PWTNPT
OBOERefBank
GoldenGATE
Xper2GeoCAT CartoDB
ESTABLISHED USER BASE
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Low
Medium
High
ESTABLISHED USER BASE
Supporting structures
Outreach activities
Time of service run
Factors for building a healthy user base
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ScratchpadsVirtual Research Environments
600 communities
7,100 active users
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Data
curation
Data
analysis
Data
publishing
Data collection &generation
aseamless
workflow
One of the most successful e-infrastructures under Vibrant
But why?
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Ambassadors programme
Share enthusiasm and vision Usage experience Geographically distributed and cross-domain
20 ambassadors in 16 countries
Crowdsourcing the support activities
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Give talks about Scratchpads
Arrange for or give training courses
Act as focal point of local Scratchpad expertise
Promote the use of Scratchpads in their community
Provide support to new local Scratchpad user communities
Provide support to local users in languages other than English
12
3
45
6
Ambassadors programmeCrowdsourcing the support activities
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Ambassadors programmeCrowdsourcing the support activities
Planned and organised training courses by Ambassadors
Ukraine
Cameroon
Malaysia
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Train users
Raise awareness | Promote platform
On-siteTraining
Crowdsourcing the support activities
Train trainers
16 courses in 2013in 9 countries
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Crowdsourcing the support activities
On-line
3 online courses in 2013
Global reach
Low cost
Participants from all continents
Training
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Project management – Issues queue
Bug reports
Feature requests
Support queries
Redmine open source project management system
> 1,200 issues / year
Maximising support efficiency
61% processed within a day1
81% processed within a week1
1 Brake I. et al. 2011. Zookeys 150 doi:10.3897/zookeys.150.2191
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Issue
Development Team
SupportTeam
Team member
user
Maximising support efficiency
Project managementStraight-forward workflow
Co-learning environment
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Wiki based documentation site
DocumentationMaximising support efficiency
> 115,000 views
ca. 100 articles
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Consistent theming | Constant update
Maximising support efficiency
Documentation
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1 Embracing a commons philosophyAdopt CC0/CC-BY licences for all support and outreach material
Maximising support efficiency
2 Improve cost/benefit ratioAdopt open-source support software
3 Keep open communication channelsSustain intuitive communication tools
4 Study your end-user basePerform sociological studies
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Could a community support model on its own be the solution?
Could any our projects follow the Wikipedia business paradigm?
Conclusions
but…
Probably not yet…
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Hybrid models will need to be applied
Commons +
Maintain through development | Anchor to core funding | distributed scheme
Combine with:
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“In order to support research, development and
maintenance we must either
change reward structures or
incorporate new kinds of participants in Cyber-infrastructure efforts.”
Ribes D., Finholt T.A. 2007 Proceedings of the third International Conference on e-Social Science
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Research
Development
Maintenance
Thank you