NEESgrid: Understanding the target audiences Jonathon Cummings MIT Sloan School of Management

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NEESgrid Understanding the target
audience(s)Jonathon CummingsMIT Sloan School
of Management
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Socio-Technical Potential

• Shared Data (scientific community access to
  experimental data through the Internet)
• Shared Instrumentation (remote observation of
  shake table, reaction wall, centrifuge, etc)
• Virtual Community (multi-site collaboration, grid
  resources, mailing lists, real-time chat)

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Target Audience(s)

• Earthquake Engineers
• Needs assessment, development, operations
• Intensive use of experimental data
• Grid Specialists
• System analysis, design, implementation
• Build architecture through programming
• NEES Consortium
• Oversee broader earthquake engineering efforts
• Committees guide research agenda

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Importance of Ongoing Evaluation

• Understand competing goals of audience(s)
• Cross-Sectional (what are they doing at a
  particular point in time?)
• Longitudinal (how is what they are doing changing
  over time?)
• Matched-pair (does what they are doing differ
  from those doing similar non-grid work?)
• Social Network Analysis (where does what they are
  doing fit into the larger scientific context?)
• Acknowledge the complexity explicitly!