BUilding Cyberinfrastructure

Interest in cyberinfrastructure has accelerated since the 2003 report by the National Science Foundation's Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure (known as the "Atkins Report") and the publication of dozens of subsequent reports from across the academic landscape. One of those subsequent reports was the landmark the Cultural Commonwealth, published in 2006 by the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS report raised many cyberinfrastructure issues for the humanities and social sciences, notably on the "Institutional innovations that will allow digital scholarship to be cumulative, collaborative, and synergistic.