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Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 161-191

Records appraisal in network organizations

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    • On the role of boundary objects in socio-technical systems, see Bowker and Leigh Star, Sorting Things Out. Star and Bowker's research offered many key insights for this project as I sought to extend their ideas to the world of archives.
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    • After the UARC project was officially completed in 1998, the group was awarded a new grant by NSF for a new project, the Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory, or SPARC. Our research includes this project, but for the sake of simplicity this section is limited to our findings from the UARC project. See .
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    • Ironically, we found it unlikely that any of the collaborations we studied could implement a record-keeping system like the electronic notebook being developed by the Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association. See (last visited 6 June 2000).


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