The Role of Social Architecture in Information Infrastructure: A report for the National Environmental Information Infrastructure (NEII)

[摘要] This report presents an analysis of the social dimensions of Information Infrastructure (II), or systems of systems. It provides a synthesis of key elements and lessons learned from a number of II initiatives analysed through a ‘landscape review’. It provides some guidance and recommendations that can be applied to II such as the National Environmental Information Infrastructure (NEII) using the concept of ‘social architecture’.Social architecture refers to the social aspects of infrastructure development and maintenance with a particular focus on governance, participation and the management of the agreements that together define how stakeholders collaborate to achieve collective goals.The social architecture presented in this report is intended to inform NEII programme in the implementation of effective governance and participation mechanisms, together with a framework of agreements that will enable stakeholders to drive and sustain the NEII. The social architecture complements the NEII Reference Architecture expanding the enterprise viewpoint - one of the five RM-ODP viewpoints used to describe the NEII architecture.

[发布日期] 2015-04-28 [发布机构] CSIRO

[效力级别] Distributed Computing not elsewhere classified [学科分类] 地球科学(综合)