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  1. Sep 2015
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    2. They are also, however, the field’s key site of novelty and invention. Some of these emerge as elements of voice and style: for example, where new jazz styliststurn to standards to demonstrate thenovelty and valueof a ‘new sou

      The standard serves as the site for innovation.

    3. An outside example of this may be found in thesignificantlydifferent relationship between standardsand innovation to be found in the interactive systemof jazz

      Wow, this is an interesting thing to throw in at the end. Jackson is keeping the reading on his/her toes.

    4. Reflective consideration of the numerous tweaks, breakdowns, and departures from standards (including in the systems we build) may support a more thoughtful, creative, and resilient engagement with standards over time

      This sounds like "fit" or the "fitness" of things. I'm not sure where that leads in the literature though.

    5. New and perhaps especially integrative design efforts must negotiate with what may be very old standards that structure work and interaction in the settings they cover and in part constru

      There is no "green field" in standards work?

      In the case of TBL and the development of the Web I am reminded of how HTML used the existing existing standards: SGML, the Domain Name System and TCP/IP. Also, I wonder when the browser started to allow for invalid SGML: so called Tag Soup?

    6. constant work needed to update, maintain, and work around the problems and gaps that standards, as practiced in this domain, inevitably leave

      Repair & maintenance.

    7. changes which can thenbe incorporated into the living body of the

      It is a living standard, reminds me of HTML5 :-)

    8. Humans can be flexible, contextually aware, and creative, applying discretionary judgment in appropriate and science-saving ways when breakdowns and unexpected situationsarise

      Slavish following of the Protocol can itself lead to errors, just as following it squashes errors.

    9. a great deal of the standards actionat Northern Station resides in training and apprenticeship: periods of collaboration, teaching, and practice in the field through which procedures are taught and corrected, discretionary skill and judgment is built, and basic understandings of standards and the broader objectives behind them are share

      Apprenticeship is a theme with Jackson.

    10. do. This structure is designed to pull out similarities and differences in problems of standardizationand design ininteractive systemsdevelopment at scales both local and global in nature

      They picked two environments to try their grounded theory approach in, in order to see what they have in common and what they don't.

    11. an 2000 pages of transcript d

      Wow!

    12. Since 2010, we have interviewed over 150 ecologists and conducted participant observationsacross more than a dozen centers of ecological researc

      That's a lot of work!

    13. standards are a key mechanism by which problems and questions at the margins of systems can be made to disappea

      It's interesting how standards make these issues dissappear -- much to learn about here!

    14. and its tendency to ‘reappear’ (or return to conscious reflection) upon breakdown [4,34].

      Follow up on these readings.

    15. hed [30]. Separate work by Star and Griesemer [33]and Star and Strauss [35]identify standards as integrally connected to the sorts of “boundary objects” and “articulation work”that supportcollaboration across complex and heterogeneous landscape

      This stuff looks like it is important to read.

    16. allowingcomplex interactive systems to learn, grow, and change over

      plus they are a way of surfacing that growth ... making it visible

    17. how actors work across the gaps that standards leave to produce more effective forms of practice and desi

      Repair?