some references

Here is some info about what I'm working on. The reason it this has
been a while in coming is that I was out of town at "MathFest 2007".

This is a paper I co-authored with PlanetMath's director Aaron Krowne
in 2005, which talks about a "techno-social" model for commons-based
information resources. A version appeared in proceedings of an Emory
University digital library symposium that year.

http://br.endernet.org/~akrowne/planetmath/papers/corneli_fcdl/corneli-krowne.pdf

The next year, we wrote (with another PlanetMather, Ray Puzio) this
manifesto, with which we tried to motivate collaborative work
understanding commons-based resources. (As it happens this is not
unlike the sorts of things you do!)

http://planetmath.org/~jcorneli/everything/PM/manifesto-Nov15.pdf

We had the idea to revise this for submission somewhere, but so far
that hasn't happened -- although I recently compiled some notes aimed
in that direction. These are very informal, but at the same time they
look more like a draft of a traditional paper than a manifesto, which
is probably good.

http://planetmath.org/~jcorneli/metacommons-survey.pdf

On the technical side, what I'm working on currently is described at a
high level here:

http://planetx.cc.vt.edu/AsteroidMeta/MUSN

and some (but not all) more technical details are given here:

http://planetmath.org/~jcorneli/regression.pdf

(In particular, this doesn't integrate the marginal notes I made
during my recent travels! From the other references you'll see I do a
lot of thinking in marginalia...)

For mostly historical interest and/or illustrative purposes -- I had
the notion that when I was outside of school I would write "a thesis"
to explain the things I was interested in. That project morphed into
the more managable and generally better effort that's mentioned at the
link just above, but before this was crushed under its own weight, it
was certainly "thesis-sized", and it did have a couple of good things
to say.

http://planetmath.cc.vt.edu/~jcorneli/sbdm4cbpp.pdf

All of this fits in -- somehow -- with the "big project" I conceived
of when I was in math grad school:

http://planetx.cc.vt.edu/AsteroidMeta/HDM

Finally, a couple more social things I've written. Perhaps the most
"radical" notions are implicit here:

http://planetx.cc.vt.edu/AsteroidMeta//social%2c_political%2c_and_economic_scholium_systems

And, I think, the only "ethnographic" piece I've ever done is here:

http://planetx.cc.vt.edu/AsteroidMeta/one_week_in_october

This list pretty well covers the "professional" things I think about,
and I think it also illustrates why interdisciplinarity is so
important to me. Thanks for looking -- I figured I might as well
provide "more" info than "less", sorry if it is too much or too
verbose (I'm trying to be more concise in current writings).

Please let me know if you have any questions, and of course I'm
looking forward to your suggestions, and to setting up a visit.