The hope of many researchers and science policy makers alike is that the Internet will help foster scientific progress and ultimately to make science more open, that is more inclusive, accessible, and transparent (cf. We suggest that the results of this study are of practical relevance, especially for individuals, communities, and organizations wanting to create research infrastructures, as well as for funders and policy makers wanting to support innovative and sustainable infrastructures.ĭigital communication technologies have proved instrumental in changing practices across all sectors of society, including academia.
We are able to identify competitive disadvantages for publicly financed infrastructure projects with regard to the mode of implementation and the resources invested in development and marketing. By examining how these services emerge, we hope to gain a better understanding of the conditions and strategies to transform a service into an infrastructure. To this end, we conducted thirty-three case studies of non-commercial and commercial research services along the research life cycle. Our aim was to identify the relevant context factors, actor constellations, organizational settings, and strategies which contribute to the evolution of a basic service into an actual infrastructure. In line with many scholars in this field, we understand research infrastructures as deeply relational and adaptive systems that are embedded in research practice. In this article, we examine the making of research infrastructures for digital research.
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