Research-driven stakeholders in cyberinfrastructure use and development

Research has shown that failing to recognize and understand organizational subgroups, their cultures, and their reward systems can result in a failure of system adoption. Infrastructure building projects for science are complex forms of collaborative work that involve many subgroups. As part of an ongoing research project, we use ethnographic methods to explore the roles, categories, and relationships that are sometimes taken for granted in cyberinfrastructure research and development. We investigate the difficulty of modeling stakeholders in the development of research-driven, large-scale scientific research and describe the importance of identifying stakeholders according to research questions in addition to organizations or workplaces.