“Guess what! You’re the first to see this event”: Increasing Contribution to Online Production Communities

Stigmergic coordination in FLOSS development teams: Integrating explicit and implicit mechanisms

Bolici, F., Howison, J., & Crowston, K.. (2016). Stigmergic coordination in FLOSS development teams: Integrating explicit and implicit mechanisms. Cognitive Systems Research, 38, 14–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2015.12.003

Stigmergy in ACM Ubiquity

Submitted by crowston on Sun, 2015-10-18 20:38

My work with James Howison and Francesco Bolici on stigmergy in software development was picked up by ACM Ubiquity:

DataONE Personas published

Submitted by crowston on Wed, 2015-10-07 21:41

The DataONE Personas have been published . Each persona describes a typical user that the DataONE system might support.

NSF INSPIRE project funded

Submitted by crowston on Wed, 2015-10-07 21:37

An NSF INSPIRE project on which I'm a co-PI (along with Carsten Østerlund) was just funded! The project award 15-47880, titled "INSPIRE: Teaming Citizen Science with Machine Learning to Deepen LIGO's View of the Cosmos". The project, joint with Northwestern University, Cal State Fullerton and the Adler Planetarium, will develop a novel citizen science project to classify glitches from the LIGO gravitational wave detector.

Presentation at the National Academy of Science

Submitted by crowston on Mon, 2015-09-28 20:46

On 18 Sep 2015, I gave a short talk at the National Academies in a Symposium on Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science, in response to the chapter on virtual work.

Springer Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence published!

Submitted by crowston on Fri, 2015-09-11 10:58

The Springer has been published including an article by me on and another on

Open Source Technology Development

Crowston, K. (2015). Open Source Technology Development. In W. S. Bainbridge & Roco, M. C. (Eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_29-1

“Personas” to Support Development of Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Data Sharing

Crowston, K. (2015). “Personas” to Support Development of Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Data Sharing. Journal Of E-Science Librarianship, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2015.1082

Which Way Did They Go? Newcomer Movement through the Zooniverse

Jackson, C. B., Østerlund, C., Maidel, V., Crowston, K., & Mugar, G.. (2016). Which Way Did They Go? Newcomer Movement through the Zooniverse. In 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). https://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2835197

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